Reply #4: All the stations taken over by them [View All]

[texastoast]

suck so bad.

When I found out their CEO, Lowry Mays, was good buddies with the nazi shrubito and encouraged the "Patriot Rallies" after Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks shot her mouth off, I said, "That's it." It's CDs, Pacifica, and a couple of non-CC stations in all of the Houston market for me. Fuckem all. Maybe I will get XM for Christmas.

FM sucks so bad now, but I remember the days when you heard about 5 minutes of advertising per hour of great freaking music. Lowry Mays has said over and over that it's all about selling advertising. Dude, I don't listen and I ain't buying.

Thanks for the links. I will send out some emails.

Bush Connections
"The vice chairman of Clear Channel is Tom Hicks, whose name may be familiar to readers of this column. When Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, Mr. Hicks was chairman of the University of Texas Investment Management Company, called Utimco, and Clear Channel's chairman, Lowry Mays, was on its board. Under Mr. Hicks, Utimco placed much of the university's endowment under the management of companies with strong Republican Party or Bush family ties. In 1998 Mr. Hicks purchased the Texas Rangers in a deal that made Mr. Bush a multimillionaire." <6> (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/25KRUG.html?pagewanted=print),

"In addition, Hicks steered a controversial scheme to use the University of Texas' $13 billion endowment for private investment. Among the beneficiaries were the Carlyle Group, the arms investment firm tied to both George Bush Snr and the bin Laden family, and George W Bush's controversial Harken Oil drilling project in Bahrain."<7> (http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4651621,00.html)

Data released by the Center for Responsive Politics in early 2004 revealed that Clear Channel executives donated $42,200 to Bush compared to $1,750 to Democrat Presidental candidate John Kerry. Clear Channel's (political action committee) contributed 77% of their $334,501 in federal contributions to Republicans. <8> (http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/2004-03-23-clear_x.htm)