WSJ: Fox Will Become Main News Source For Clear Channel

[Newsjock]

Kids, we couldn't make this one up in a million years.
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB110229064974891515-IRje4NllaF3o5uuan2Gb6uJm4,00.html

By JOE FLINT
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
December 6, 2004; Page B4

News Corp.'s Fox News has reached an agreement to become the primary news provider to radio giant Clear Channel Communications Inc.

The pact stands to greatly boost the radio presence of Fox News, which rolled out its service last year, as it looks to compete with the much more entrenched CBS Radio, a unit of Viacom Inc., and Walt Disney Co.'s ABC Radio.

Under the terms of the five-year deal, which starts next year, as many as 172 of Clear Channel's news and talk stations could eventually carry Fox's radio service, which includes news updates of up to five minutes per hour and syndicated talk shows by some of its cable news personalities, including Alan Colmes.

... ABC Radio will absorb the biggest blow from the Clear Channel-Fox News deal, according to Clear Channel's Mr. Hogan. While this deal doesn't necessarily mean that Clear Channel would drop ABC, he indicated that likely would be the case and that the bulk of the stations involved in this pact are affiliated with ABC's syndicated news service.

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[Maiden England]

1. Pravda......

sigh

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I haven't been following the FCC rules lately.

Has Powell loosened up the rules regarding ownership?

[daleo]

20. Are there still rules? n/t

[one_true_leroy]

28. of course... no boobies or interacial innuendos allowed

[daleo]

35. I forgot those two

Also, "there will be no more than 60 minutes of advertising permitted during any 60 minute period."

[one_true_leroy]

38. i dunno...

with TiVo, they might be able to sqeeze in a few more.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Hitler and Stalin couldn't have done better than this.

:puke:

:grr:

[0007]

56. Everyday it gets just a little worse. This is unbelievable.

Hitler and Stalin are beaming from the under world. The people in this country are so goddamn stupid its hard to fathom. :puke:

[Rose Siding]

3. So a larger % of people will be poorly informed

Just what a democracy in its death throes needs. The derelict reporter doesn't mention the studies done on that relevant piece of the story.

[MatrixEscape]

4. A match made in

Heaven ... urr ... Hell! Satan knows for sure!

The monolith grows and unites!

[President Jesus]

42. Clear Channel/FOXNews ceos' campaign contributions

match made in 'heaven' alright...

http://www.newsmeat.com/ceo_political_donations/Lowry_Mays.php
http://www.newsmeat.com/media_political_donations/Roger_Ailes.php

and let's not forget Murdoch:
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?last=Murdoch&first=Rupert

[IllegalCombatant]

5. now who in their right mind would hire FAUX as their main source for news

if they weren't in on the scam being perpetrated on the american people.

if journalistic standards actually meant anything today they would be laughed out of broadcasting.

the media must be OUTED as corporate shills by all democrats who still care about integrity.

[Just Me]

22. The propaganda being perpetrated on the American people,...

,...scares me more than almost anything else that is happening because the Americans are being misled about pretty much everything that is going on. It's as though I am watching as a train is chugging along and I cannot loosen all those people that Karl Rove & Co. have tied to the tracks.

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Huh. I thought it already WAS their main source of news.

Good thing I only listen to music in my car. And don't watch news on TV.

[chicagojoe]

7. And the propaganda machine grows...

[underpants]

8. Indeed

Pravda as post #1 says

[ourbluenation]

14. We need our own "fox"

I've said it before and I'll say it again - we need to get our own "mouthpiece" news channel like the GOP TV (otherwise known as FOX).

Any gagillionaires out there that wanna take this on?

JTT

[Name removed]

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[Tempest]

21. What's the joke?

Explain yourself.

[wishlist]

10. My Air America affiliate has ABC news now, it will probably go to Fox

In my area, Clear Channel owns several stations that use ABC for the hourly national news broadcasts, including a right wing station and also one where Air America is carried. I am sure they will all switch to Fox News. So much for being able to enjoy several hours a day of RW-free radio.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. A Clear Channel station carrie Air America?

:shrug:

[Thew]

23. in Portland, OR

AM 620 is Clear Channel owned

[1gobluedem]

34. In Ann Arbor, MI too

AM 1290, WLBY is CC owned and is an Air America station.

[Crunchy Frog]

40. I think ours here in Boulder CO,

760 AM, is too. No escape from the Matrix.:-(

[Downtown Hound]

26. The one thing you can count on with the right

is that their greed will always win out. If it makes money, they'll take it.

[MindPilot]

29. And in San Diego, "progressive talk"

AM 1360 KLSD is a CC station

[Liberty Belle]

36. Rep. Duncan Hunter ads on Air America in San Diego

I couldn't believe my ears. Hunter is a militaristic far right-winger, and Air America's local station has Hunter ads running that are anti-911 Comission reforms. Aaaaaaagh!

[thoughtanarchist]

30. In Boston... AM 1240 , AM 1400

Air America.

ClearChannel stations.

Advertised as "progressive Talk"

Their FM talk station is RW whakjobs 24/7

Advertised simply as "Talk Radio"

Is this an attempt to redraw lines between "mainstream" and "fringe" in New England?

[B3Nut]

53. Madison, WI

92.1 The Mic is owned by Crap Channel. I wonder if they'll start running Faux "news" feeds...that would give local guy Stu Levitan a lot of fodder...hehehehee

TP

[tmooses]

12. So we will have Faux News on stations bringing us AAR? Wait.....

my head is rotating again.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. So.........more avenues to spread propaganda

for the masses to consume courtesy of the corporate controlled media. Oh goody! :bounce:

[Blue_Tires]

15. should have also read:

"Fox to become main news source of the WSJ"

[blm]

16. Goebbel's goal is being achieved by the American fascists of BushInc.

.

[peterh]

18. Was the WSJ going out of its way to single out Alan Colmes?

the stage prop in this deal is akin to beads for Manhattan :eyes:

[Dr Ron]

19. You must be mistaken

Fox does not own a news division. They do have that editorial network, but no news network. :)

[sandnsea]

58. Fox Punditry Network

I would agree! lol, you're always so funny.

[Im_Your_Huckleberry]

24. i hear the sound of jackboots.

[progressoid]

25. Hip-fucking-hooray

[neweurope]

27. Very very bad.

"Goebbel's goal is being achieved by the American fascists of BushInc."

The Bushistas are much better than Goebbels was. He still had to use force. Your fellow countrymen don't even realize what's going on.

Yes, I very much think you really need your own "mouthpiece" news channel. I also think that you - we - are going to need all the computer-specialists we can get. In PNAC they said they want to control the internet - that scares me more than anything else. Once they accomplish that, it will really be pitch black.

[Maat]

31. Check out Sirius!

I'm telling you! Air America news is what is broadcast during the news break.

And the new CEO significantly contributed to Democrats!

Is your sanity worth an initial expenditure of about $150, and a monthly fee of less than $15.00. I think so.

What's to keep Sirius' liberal channels from slowly drifting right? I think that Howard Stern's involvement (and the new CEO he is behind) will be a major step in the preservation of free speech.

[lefthandedskyhook]

66. Sirius == good XM == bad

XM is owned by murdoch-the-malignant monster.

With this new news development I am seriously considering Sirius for the "away from home" AAR source. Hopefully they will have a personally sized model soon.

[artr2]

32. C'mon Clear Channel

Kiss that republican ass

[brettdale]

33. this is awful

So it begins. God knows what America is going to be like in acouple of years time.


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041206/ap_en_bu/clear_channel_fox

[Liberty Belle]

37. We have to stop Clear Channel. Ideas here! Kick! kick!

Clear Channel is the same company that's behind those dictator-like Bush billboards springing up all over the country.

Isn't there some sort of anti-monopoly laws that can be invoked here to stop this? Lawyers, please help.

Here in San Diego, Clear Channel owns the station Air America is on. They are running ads featuring Republican Duncan Hunter, a far right wing Congressman, against 911 Comission reforms.

This is our worst nightmare. How can we stop Fox and Clear Channel from teaming up to further brainwash the masses? Are these companies publicly owned? Can we start a stockholder revolt, sell off stock and make the price plummet, or start a boycott of Clear Channel advertisers to force Clear Channel to choose some better news source than Faux?

Everyone, please offer constructive ideas. Let's come up with a game plan!

[AllegroRondo]

39. Buy a couple shares of stock

then go to the shareholder meeting and raise hell.

[Liberty Belle]

47. We should all go. When and where is it?

[joe1991]

65. The best way to stop them is to stop listening

Seriously, in a medium filled with RW hate, a few more minutes
should not surprise anyone. My suggestion is to get on the next
generation bus, (sat radio) Now, and get Sirius. Then tell everyone
how great they are.

[Seabiscuit]

41. Surprise, surprise! They're finally getting around to admitting it?

[Ivan Sputnik]

43. How is this going to work

on the CC stations that carry Air America programming? Talk about mixed messages.

[sakabatou]

44. Great...

"We don't have a political agenda; what we have is an agenda to get the greatest number of listeners for the longest period of time," said Clear Channel Radio Chief Executive John Hogan.


Yeah fucking right...

[Placebo]

45. It's like two peas in a pod, really.

Sickening.

[MattNC]

46. not that big of a deal

a local news talk station here uses Fox for its news updates, and the updates are indeed "fair and balanced" from what I've noticed.

[Octafish]

48. Red States Get STUPIDER.

Which makes it even harder for the Truth to get through skulls thickened by the likes of Sean Hackjob and Flush Nutjob.

Rupert's got a special place waiting for him.

[PatriotGames]

49. Whatever happened to the liberal media? nt

[sonicx]

50. Deluxe Propaganda Professional Edition

[Dr Fate]

51. There is a difference between Fox, ABC & ClearChannel????

Both ABC, FOX & Clearchannel supported Bush lies about WMDs, all three supported Bush's "Saddam caused 9/11" lies, all three repeated the "John Kerry faked his medals" lies as facts.

All three REFUSED to cover election fraud-in 2000 & 2004, ETC,ETC,ETC.

Can someone tell me the difference & why this even matters?

[VTHoosierPatriot]

52. The Turd just got a little more aerodynamic,

but it is still what it was. This just makes it more obvious for anyone who doubted that Clear Channel's management were RW hacks. Liberal media...

[Flagrante]

54. Hispanics are being brainwashed

In my area Clear Channel just changed a local long-time hard rock station, KSJO, to Spanish language programming, and I understand that this is not an isolated event. I heard further that Univision, Spanish language TV, is now run by the right wing, and I saw on the economic thread the other day that Univision donated red. The right wing is obviously making a play to brainwash the US Hispanic population.

[wovenpaint]

55. I'm shocked, I tell ya

shocked and awed......or maybe NOT!

Welcome to the United (?) STATE of Amerika

[donheld]

57. I guess i will have to find a new radio station

KBCO in Denver is my favorite, but i will not listen to it if it has fox news on it.

[bookman]

59. Radio Free America

Remember Radio Free Europe during the cold war? We might need a Radio Free America with Fox and Clear Channel taking over the airwave.

[Flagrante]

60. Free radio exists

in the form of the Pacifica network. Democracy Now is the best news show on any media in the US at this time. Find a station near you, download shows, or stream Pacifica here:
<http://www.pacifica.org/>

[rodeodance]

61. so, we will have more idiots!! with this deal . Sad, sad sad!!!!

[tommie_kicks]

62. Wonder what the 4A's tells their clients now?

Agencies Worry Over CC's Spot-Load Cuts
December 03, 2004
By Paul Heine
http://www.mediaweek.com/mediaweek/headlines/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000731546

( snip )
"The American Association of Advertising Agencies has articulated "three major concerns" to Clear Channel Radio CEO John Hogan about the company's Less Is More spot-load reduction initiative.

Specifically, the 4A's cites a lack of research, accountability and spot-length restrictions on first-pod position commercials as issues that "should be addressed and resolved in the immediate future, since they are important for determining how clients will choose to value Clear Channel Radio stations as we move forward," said committee chairman Kevin Gallagher in a letter to Hogan."

[markus]

63. We have to get on this

I plan to call KFGO (Ed Schultz' home station in Fargo) and let them know that I consider this tantamount to dropping news in favor of a Republican advertising feed. It's nothing more.

I think we have to nip this one in the buds. This is as worthy or more of a concerted effort as our efforts against Sinclair broadcasting.

Can anyone point to my truly analytical studies of the content of Fox News and its other programming, indicating it's (otherwise obvious) right wing bent?

[Rush1184]

64. Do that many people actually tune into that crap?

I mean seriously? Are people THAT dumb, or are they all acting that way just to piss me off?