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66-548: Westwood One, Inc. is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media . The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming. The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One , a company founded in 1976. The company was, at various times, managed by CBS Radio , the radio arm of CBS Corporation and Viacom . It was later purchased by the private equity firm The Gores Group before merging with Dial Global in 2011. In December 2013, Dial Global was, in turn, acquired by Cumulus Media . Prior to

132-527: A 51% stake in Clear Media Ltd. in China. R. Steven Hicks and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst began Capstar Broadcasting in 1996, and a year later had become the largest owner of radio stations in the country, with 243 stations in total. In August 1997, Capstar and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst announced plans to acquire SFX Broadcasting , with the resulting company owning 314 stations in 79 markets and ranking as

198-540: A LMA with Clear Channel's KLRT-TV . Clear Channel also entered into a deal with Providence Journal Company , who owns Fox affiliate KMSB in Tucson to operate KTTU through a local marketing agreement. Memphis also jumped onto the board when WLMT entered into a LMA with Clear Channel's WPTY . Also in 1993, Clear Channel entered into a local marketing agreement with RDS Communications to operate KTFO-TV in Tulsa, which most of

264-930: A LMA with Clear Channel's WPRI . As part of the radio-TV strategy, Clear Channel acquired Jacor Communications , which incorporated WKRC-TV in Cincinnati into the Clear Channel Television branch. Once FCC relaxed its duopoly rules, Clear Channel acquired stations that were originally LMA markets outright, including WLMT in Memphis , KTFO in Tulsa , WTEV in Jacksonville , KASN in Little Rock and WJTC in Mobile . Also in 2000, Clear Channel sold WPRI to Sunrise Television for $ 50 million. Later on in 2001, William Moll become

330-448: A billboard media company led by Karl Eller . In 1998, it made its first move outside of the US when it acquired the leading UK outdoor advertising company More Group plc, which was led by Roger Parry ; Clear Channel went on to buy many other outdoor advertising, radio broadcasting, and live events companies around the world, which were then re-branded Clear Channel International. These included

396-437: A channel (frequency) on which only one station transmits. In the U.S., clear-channel stations have exclusive rights to their frequencies throughout most of the continent at night, when AM signals travel far due to skywave . CEO Bob Pittman said that the company had been "doing progressive stuff", yet were still "named after AM radio stations". Beginning in 2008, iHeartMedia struggled to pay down more than $ 20 billion in debt

462-434: A concept called trunking is commonly used to achieve better efficiency of radio spectrum use and provide very wide-ranging coverage with no switching of channels required by the mobile radio user as it roams throughout the system coverage. Trunking of two-way radio is identical to the concept used for cellular phone systems where each fixed and mobile radio is specifically identified to the system controller and its operation

528-400: A deal where the company might file for bankruptcy. On March 15, 2018, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and claimed that it reached an agreement to restructure $ 10 billion of its over $ 20 billion in debt. In September 2018, iHeartMedia acquired HowStuffWorks ' podcast network Stuff Media for $ 55 million. On November 19, 2018, iHeartMedia announced its intent to acquire Jelli ,

594-448: A direct listing on the Nasdaq . On January 14, 2020, iHeartMedia announced a major restructuring, as part of an effort to "modernize our company to take advantage of the significant investments we have made in new technology and aligning our operating structure to match the technology-powered businesses we are now in." This included the restructuring of its Markets Group into three divisions:

660-530: A few cases, following purchase of a competitor, Clear Channel was forced to divest some of its stations, as it was above the legal thresholds in some cities. In 2005, the courts ruled that Clear Channel must also divest itself of some " border blaster " radio stations in international border cities, such as the alternative rock radio station XETRA-FM ("91X") in Tijuana / San Diego . In 1997, Clear Channel expanded and diversified its business, purchasing Eller Media,

726-533: A few stations outside its original network primarily for ESPN Radio as of December 18, 2015 until 2023, pulled its content from Cumulus on January 1, 2015; and NBC, after having its content dropped from Westwood One in 2015, moved its content to iHeartMedia in 2016.) Among the numerous other holdings Cumulus now controls are the libraries of Transtar, RKO , Waitt, Jones, BPI, Watermark , and Drake-Chenault . The company's numerous acquisitions prompted rival Talk Radio Network to file an antitrust lawsuit against what

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792-425: A hundred stations were assigned to Aloha Station Trust, LLC upon the consummation of the merger. The television stations were sold to Newport Television , a broadcaster owned by Providence Equity Partners , on April 23, 2007. Due to the credit market crunch of 2007, Clear Channel encountered difficulty selling some of its radio stations. Clear Channel's attempt to sell off over 100 stations to GoodRadio.TV, LLC

858-484: A marketing partnership with Robert F. X. Sillerman 's SFX Entertainment (a second incarnation of a live events company that had been sold to Clear Channel, which spun off to form Live Nation), to collaborate on electronic dance music content for its digital and terrestrial radio outlets, including a Beatport top 20 countdown show. The partnership expanded upon the company's existing EDM-oriented outlets, including Evolution . Staff, including John Sykes , believed that

924-501: A number of its homegrown talk and music shows without the aid of Premiere. While Premiere actively sells its shows to stations, the non-Premiere syndicated shows are often used as a cost-cutting measure and do not have a large sales staff. Those shows also do not carry network-wide advertising (unless distributed by a third party), and allow the affiliates to keep all local spots, which increases their appeal. These networks carry many program hosts of various political ideologies and distribute

990-608: A possible side effect of its numerous acquisitions. On November 15 of that year, Dial Global announced a disappointing third quarter that it attributed in part to the financial impact of its exposure to the controversy surrounding a certain controversial talk personality, which was widely assumed to be a veiled reference to Rush Limbaugh in the wake of the Rush Limbaugh–Sandra Fluke controversy (although Limbaugh has no direct association with Dial Global). It simultaneously announced that it had filed for delisting from NASDAQ. At

1056-590: A variety of networks. Radio networks rose rapidly with the growth of regular broadcasting of radio to home listeners in the 1920s. This growth took various paths in different places. In Britain the BBC was developed with public funding , in the form of a broadcast receiver license , and a broadcasting monopoly in its early decades. In contrast, in the United States various competing commercial broadcasting networks arose funded by advertising revenue. In that instance,

1122-538: A wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting , podcasting , digital and live events through division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia and Entertainment, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Broadcasting, Inc.);

1188-534: Is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio , Texas . It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. , formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc. , a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners in a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of the 2008 buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. became

1254-399: Is played. Big Machine Label Group was announced as the first partner in this scheme. Pittman stated that the arrangement would let "labels and artists participate in the revenue of broadcast radio immediately and in digital radio as it builds". iHeartMedia has purchased stations from or acquired the following radio companies: Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) is an advertising company that

1320-540: Is switched by the controller. The broadcast type of radio network is a network system which distributes programming to multiple stations simultaneously, or slightly delayed, for the purpose of extending total coverage beyond the limits of a single broadcast signal. The resulting expanded audience for radio programming or information essentially applies the benefits of mass-production to the broadcasting enterprise. A radio network has two sales departments, one to package and sell programs to radio stations, and one to sell

1386-519: The National Football League 's main radio package . Dial Global was founded as X Radio Networks, a division of Excelsior Radio Networks. It merged with Dial Communications and Global Media in 2006, from which it derived the Dial Global name. Dial Global initially specialized in syndicated weekend music programs of various types. In 2007 it acquired the former Transtar Radio Networks from

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1452-547: The U.S. Congress relaxed radio ownership rules slightly, allowing the company to acquire more than two stations per market. By 1995, Clear Channel owned 43 radio stations and 16 television stations. When the Telecommunications Act of 1996 became law, the act deregulated media ownership, allowing a company to own more stations than previously allowed. Clear Channel went on a subsequent buying spree, purchasing more than 70 other media companies and individual stations. In

1518-585: The Regions division for its largest markets, the Metropolitan division for other major cities, and the Communities division for smaller markets and added a multi-market partnerships unit, and announced the development of centers of excellence that would use technology investments to "provide a better experience for listeners and business partners and a more efficient process for all of its employees". The restructuring

1584-536: The Vertical Real Estate division and hired Scott Quitadamo to promote its tower portfolio. iHeartMedia owns and operates approximately 1,500 broadcast transmission towers across the U.S., many of which are available for co-location by third parties such as cellular and PCS companies, wireless internet, fixed wireless , and other broadcasters. iHeartMedia operates the country's largest syndication service, Premiere Networks . In addition, iHeartMedia syndicates

1650-508: The audience of those programs to advertisers. Most radio networks also produce much of their programming. Originally, radio networks owned some or all of the stations that broadcast the network's radio format programming. Presently however, there are many networks that do not own any stations and only produce and/or distribute programming. Similarly station ownership does not always indicate network affiliation. A company might own stations in several different markets and purchase programming from

1716-471: The board of iHeartCommunications and was replaced by Laura A. Grattan, a director at Thomas H. Lee . Grattan was named to the board of managers of iHeartMedia Capital I, LLC, the direct parent of iHeartCommunications, as well as the board of directors of iHeartMedia, Inc., the indirect parent of iHeartCommunications. On November 30, 2017, it was reported that a group of creditors had rejected iHeartMedia's latest debt restructuring proposal, instead bringing out

1782-472: The board. Later that year, MTV co-founder Robert W. "Bob" Pittman joined the company and would eventually become CEO of CC Media Holdings. In August 2013, Clear Channel sold its minority stake in Sirius XM for $ 135.5 million. This also resulted in the removal of most Clear Channel-programmed stations on the service, besides simulcasts of WHTZ and KIIS-FM . On January 6, 2014, Clear Channel announced

1848-474: The broadcast-type radio network but is generally set up with fixed broadcast points ( transmitters ) with co-located receivers and mobile receivers/transmitters or transceivers . In this way both the fixed and mobile radio units can communicate with each other over broad geographic regions ranging in size from small single cities to entire states/provinces or countries. There are many ways in which multiple fixed transmit/receive sites can be interconnected to achieve

1914-464: The company also filed a proposed initial public offering . iHeartMedia emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2019, with a new board of directors and the spin-out of Clear Channel Outdoor, but maintaining its existing leadership of CEO Bob Pittman and President Rich Bressler. Rather than pursue its IPO (which was estimated to potentially be valued at $ 1.1 billion), iHeartMedia instead received approval for

1980-509: The company assumed from its leveraged buyout. Various media outlets, including Bloomberg News , Reuters , Radio Ink , and iHeartMedia's hometown newspaper the San Antonio Express-News , claimed that either bankruptcy or a major restructuring was likely. On April 20, 2017, the company warned investors that it might not survive over the following 10 months. In 2016, one of the company's directors, Julia B. Donnelly, left

2046-541: The company bought out KITN-TV in Minneapolis / St. Paul from Nationwide Communications , followed in 1994 by the purchase of WXXA-TV in Albany from Heritage Communications, for $ 25.5 million. In 1991, Clear Channel Television jumped into the foray of local marketing agreements , starting in 1991 with WJTC , which Clear Channel operated through a LMA with WPMI , and subsequently later on in 1992, when KASN entered into

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2112-467: The company owns more than 860 full-power AM and FM radio stations in the U.S., making it the country's largest owner of radio stations. The company has also been involved in internet radio and podcasting via the digital platform iHeartRadio (from which the company derives its current name). In the past, the company was also involved in live events and out-of-home advertising . The company spun off these businesses in 2005 and 2019 respectively, as

2178-424: The deal would help provide a higher level of national exposure to current and up and coming EDM artists. In September 2014, it was announced that the company would be renamed from Clear Channel Communications to iHeartMedia, alluding to its iHeartRadio platform to reflect the company's growing emphasis on digital media and internet radio . The previous name "Clear Channel" came from AM broadcasting, referring to

2244-532: The death of Robert Smith, the founder of Smith Broadcasting . In 2005, Clear Channel acquired another Salt Lake City television station KUWB from Acme Communications for $ 18.5 million in cash. In 2006, Don Perry was then named president and CEO of Clear Channel Television. Ever that, in the 2000s, Clear Channel began the trend of using legacy callsigns for former radio sisters as new call designated signs for existing Clear Channel TV properties, since it already owned radio stations, although WKRC-TV already used

2310-610: The inventory will be supplied by KOKI. Later on, in 1994, in Jacksonville, WTEV-TV entered into a local marketing agreement with WAWS , the Clear Channel television station. In 1994, Fox shockingly announced its intentions to purchase WHBQ-TV , which displaced Clear Channel's WPTY-TV as its Fox Memphis affiliate. Also that year, as part of a group deal involving stations acquired by SF Broadcasting, Clear Channel's WPMI-TV in Mobile

2376-622: The moniker when it was under Clear Channel ownership. In 2002, San Antonio's Clear Channel station KMOL-TV was rebranded to WOAI-TV , the original call letters that station is using from 1948 to 1974, matching up with radio sister WOAI-AM . In 2005, WOKR, the Rochester Clear Channel affiliate was rebranded to WHAM-TV , the original call letters for an unrelated Rochester station WROC-TV from 1948 to 1956, matching up for radio sister WHAM-AM . Also that year, sister station in Syracuse, WIXT

2442-528: The most spins played on radio stations in the United States and Canada . A majority of stations that report to Mediabase are iHeartMedia outlets but other companies also report to the Mediabase charts. In addition, countdown shows produced by Premiere will utilize Mediabase charts for the basis of their programs. Operates urban bicycle sharing systems in several European cities: In 2003, Clear Channel created

2508-804: The new satellite radio service XM Satellite Radio , giving it the rights to program a selection of stations on the service (which would be drawn from some of its stations and syndicated output). In 2000, Clear Channel acquired Robert F. X. Sillerman 's SFX Entertainment, a concert promoter that had focused on consolidation of regional promoters under a national operation. In 2005, Clear Channel spun off its entertainment and live events business as Live Nation . On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced plans to go private, being bought out by two private-equity firms, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital Partners for $ 26.7 billion, which included their assumption of $ 8 billion in Clear Channel debt. This

2574-403: The number-two group owner, Audacy . In June 2012, the company announced that it would become the first U.S. radio group to partner with record labels to pay performance royalties directly to labels and musicians (in addition to songwriters and producers). The royalties are paid via revenue sharing for advertising across platforms (including digital), rather than a flat payment each time a song

2640-464: The original Westwood One. Triton Media Group , a subsidiary of Oaktree Capital Management , purchased Excelsior in early 2008, and soon bought two of its three main competitors: Waitt Radio Networks and Jones Radio Networks . Triton used the Dial Global name for all of its programming and later bought the remainder of Westwood One in 2011, folding it into its Dial Global subsidiary. Dial Global began exhibiting signs of financial distress in late 2012,

2706-401: The other six were flipped to other buyers by Newport. In 2012 to mid-2013, Newport sold off all of its holdings to several other television groups, including Cox Media Group , Nexstar Media Group , and Sinclair Broadcast Group . Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by city of license . iHeartMedia owns Mediabase , which provide music charts based on songs and tracks receiving

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2772-676: The present-day Live Nation Entertainment and Clear Channel Outdoor . Clear Channel Communications purchased its first FM station in San Antonio, Texas in 1972. The company purchased the second "clear channel" AM station WOAI in 1975. In 1976, the company purchased its first stations outside of San Antonio. KXXO (now KAKC ) and KMOD-FM in Tulsa were acquired under the name "San Antonio Broadcasting" (same as KEEZ). Stations were also added in Port Arthur, Texas (KPAC-AM-FM, now KDEI and KTJM , from Port Arthur College ), and El Paso, Texas (KELP, now KQBU ) from John Walton Jr. In 1992,

2838-745: The president of Clear Channel Television, replacing Rioridan. In 2001, after acquiring the stations of Chris-Craft Industries , Fox Television Stations traded WFTC to Clear Channel Television for Fox's own TV stations KMOL-TV in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City . In 2002, Clear Channel acquired Ackerley Group , which incorporated its television holdings into the Clear Channel Television portfolio. Also that year, Clear Channel sold KTTU in Tucson to Belo outright. In 2003, Clear Channel announced that they would sell WUTR to Mission Broadcasting . In 2004, Clear Channel bought WETM outright after

2904-502: The provider of a programmatic advertising platform for radio stations. In January 2019, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas approved a creditor-supported plan for iHeartMedia to exit bankruptcy, which would reduce the company's debt from $ 16.1 billion to $ 5.75 billion. The plan included the spin-out of iHeartMedia's 89.1% stake in its out-of-home advertising division Clear Channel Outdoor . In April 2019,

2970-434: The range of coverage required by the jurisdiction or authority implementing the system: conventional wireless links in numerous frequency bands, fibre-optic links, or microwave links. In all of these cases the signals are typically backhauled to a central switch of some type where the radio message is processed and resent (repeated) to all transmitter sites where it is required to be heard. In contemporary two-way radio systems

3036-555: The sale's completion, Dial Global re-assumed the Westwood One name. After the completion of the purchase, Westwood One was merged into the Cumulus Media Networks division (the former ABC Radio Networks). Content syndicated by Westwood One includes talk shows, music programs and 24-hour formats. It is particularly prominent in sports radio, distributing Infinity Sports Network and holding various play-by-play rights, including

3102-504: The sale, Cumulus sold 53 radio stations to Townsquare Media (a radio broadcasting company owned by Oaktree), and traded 15 more stations to Townsquare in exchange for a cluster in Fresno, California formerly owned by Peak Broadcasting—which was also being acquired by Townsquare. On September 4, 2013, ahead of the completion of the purchase, Dial Global announced that it would rename itself Westwood One, citing stronger name recognition. The sale

3168-537: The same corporation that owned or operated the network often manufactured and marketed the listener's radio. Major technical challenges to be overcome when distributing programs over long distances are maintaining signal quality and managing the number of switching/relay points in the signal chain . Early on, programs were sent to remote stations (either owned or affiliated) by various methods, including leased telephone lines, pre-recorded gramophone records and audio tape. The world's first all-radio, non-wireline network

3234-423: The stock. Chancellor Media later became AMFM Inc., which was acquired by Clear Channel in a deal announced October 3, 1999, and valued at $ 17.4 billion. The resulting company would own 830 radio stations, 19 television stations, and over 425,000 outdoor displays in 32 countries. In 1999, the company acquired Jacor Communications , a radio corporation based in Cincinnati . The company also made an investment in

3300-640: The termination date of the buyout from December 12, 2007, to June 12, 2008. On July 24, 2008, Clear Channel held a special shareholder meeting, during which the majority of shareholders accepted a revised $ 36-per-share offer from Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners , revaluing the deal at $ 17.9 billion plus debt. Shareholders received either $ 36 in cash, or one share of CC Media Class A common stock for each share of Clear Channel common stock held. The company announced that it would move to more centralized programming and lay off 1,500 employees, or approximately 7% of its workforce, on January 20, 2009. The reasoning

3366-522: The third-largest radio group by income. A year later, Chancellor Media Corporation and Capstar Broadcasting Corporation announced a merger that would result in Chancellor Media owning 463 stations in 105 markets when the deal was completed in second quarter 1999. Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst owned 59 percent of Capstar, with 355 stations in 83 markets, and was the largest single owner of Chancellor (which had 108 stations in 22 markets), with 15 percent of

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3432-442: The time of the announcement, Dial Global stock was trading at $ 2.00 a share; by mid-January 2013, DG's stock was trading at .30 a share. In a SEC 8-K filing dated January 15, 2013, DG announced that it had extended a loan waiver agreement with certain lenders. On August 29, 2013, Cumulus Broadcasting announced its intent to acquire Dial Global for $ 260 million, and merge it into its existing Cumulus Media Networks division. To fund

3498-659: Was accompanied by a major round of layoffs and displacements, with a large number of staff members and on-air personalities impacted. iHeartMedia has purchased interest in, or outright acquired, companies in a number of media or advertising related industries. This is not an exhaustive list. With 855 stations, iHeartMedia is the largest radio station group owner in the United States, both by number of stations and by revenue. The 855 stations reach more than 110 million listeners every week, and 276 million every month. According to BIA Financial Network, iHeartMedia recorded more than $ 3.5 billion in revenues as of 2021 , $ 1 billion more than

3564-425: Was bleak economic conditions and debt from its transition to a private company. By the completion of the restructuring in May 2009, a total of 2,440 positions were eliminated. In early 2010, it was announced that the company was facing the possibility of bankruptcy due to its "crippling debt". After 21 years, Mark Mays stepped down as president and CEO of Clear Channel on June 23, 2010. Mays remained as chairman of

3630-579: Was claimed to be the Rural Radio Network , a group of six upstate New York FM stations that began operation in June 1948. Terrestrial microwave relay, a technology later introduced to link stations, has been largely supplanted by coaxial cable , fiber , and satellite , which usually offer superior cost-benefit ratios. Many early radio networks evolved into Television networks . IHeartMedia iHeartMedia, Inc. , or CC Media Holdings, Inc. ,

3696-571: Was completed on December 12, 2013. As a result of all of these acquisitions, Cumulus Media now controls the remnants of all four of the major networks from the Golden Age of Radio : the former NBC Radio Network , the Mutual Broadcasting System , the distribution rights to most of CBS , the former ABC Radio Network, and CBS Sports Radio ( CBS Radio owned stations, but were merged with Entercom on November 17, 2017; ABC , which still owns

3762-682: Was followed on July 3 of that year with the purchase of Fox affiliate WAWS-TV in Jacksonville, Florida , from Malrite Communications Group , for $ 8.1 million. Eventually over time, Clear Channel Television became the second-largest independent television group, behind Sinclair Broadcast Group . In 1990, Clear Channel bought out its fifth television station, KSAS-TV in Wichita, Kansas , for $ 7.9 million. In 1991, Clear Channel bought out KLRT-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas for $ 6.6 million. In 1992, Clear Channel bought out WPTY-TV in Memphis from Chase Communications for $ 21 million. Later on in 1993,

3828-492: Was initially headed by J. Daniel Sullivan, who set up as president of Clear Channel's television division. The group made its beginnings when the first television station iHeartMedia purchased as Clear Channel was WPMI in Mobile , Alabama in 1988. Later that year, Clear Channel Communications bought out KDTU-TV in Tucson, Arizona , which became Clear Channel's second television station. On March 13, 1989, Clear Channel Television bought out KOKI-TV for $ 6.5 million. This

3894-430: Was just under a 10 percent premium above its closing price of $ 35.36 a share on November 16: the deal valued Clear Channel at $ 37.60 per share. In a separate transaction also announced on November 16, 2006, Clear Channel said it would seek buyers for all of its television stations and 539 of its smaller radio stations, because the private-equity buyers were not interested in owning television or small-market radio. Over

3960-470: Was previously owned by iHeartMedia. In May 2019, it was spun out from iHeartMedia as part of its exit from bankruptcy. Clear Channel Television is a defunct television broadcaster and a former subsidiary of the group that was in operation, for nearly 20 years, from 1988 to 2008. It owned more than 40 stations, most of them were from the Big Six networks, a few of which are independent (non-network affiliates). It

4026-529: Was rebranded to WSYR-TV , the original call letters for WSTM-TV from 1950 to 1980, matching up for radio sister WSYR-AM . In 2007, the company entered into an agreement to sell all its television stations to Providence Equity Partners for $ 1.2 billion, a deal that eventually closed in March 2008. Earlier that year, Don Perry left as president and CEO of Clear Channel Television. All former Clear Channel television stations were owned by Newport Television , while

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4092-454: Was rejected by the equity firm backing the deal. The deal then shifted to Frequency License LLC, but took longer to resolve itself as the two parties were engaged in lawsuits. On top of that, the sale of Clear Channel's television portfolio to Newport Television had also turned uncertain, as Providence considered other options, although this transaction was ultimately completed. On December 4, 2007, Clear Channel announced that they had extended

4158-552: Was set to be displaced as Mobile's Fox affiliate by WALA-TV as part of a three-station deal with the other Burnham stations. These moves didn't sit well for Clear Channel Television, whose president Dan Sullivan thought they wanted to affiliate it with the ousted networks, including NBC in Mobile, and ABC in Memphis. In 1995, Clear Channel purchased its first Big Three network affiliate, WHP-TV in Harrisburg , for $ 30 million. It

4224-455: Was spun off to The E. W. Scripps Company in October 2018; as Scripps does not operate radio stations (it had a brief foray in the medium after its acquisition of Journal Media Group , but divested its stations in 2018), the radio-related assets remain in the possession of Westwood One. Radio network The two-way type of radio network shares many of the same technologies and components as

4290-721: Was subsequently followed it up when Gateway Communications, owners of WLYH-TV entered into a LMA with Clear Channel's WHP-TV . Later on that year, J. Dan Sullivan left Clear Channel Television to start out Sullivan Broadcasting to acquire the Act III Broadcasting stations. He was then succeeded by Rip Rioridan as president. In 1996, it bought out WPRI-TV in Providence from CBS , which CBS did not keep due to slight signal overlap with WBZ-TV in Boston . Also that year, Argyle Television Holdings II , who owned WNAC-TV entered into

4356-1216: Was then Dial Global in August 2012. Cumulus settled the lawsuit with TRN on amicable terms in March 2014, which was followed by TRN filing another lawsuit over the issue in April 2016. Cumulus won the lawsuit in late 2017, and TRN ceased operations at the end of that year. By 2015, Westwood One had been fully integrated into Cumulus Media Networks , with Westwood One as the surviving brand. The merger resulted in layoffs from its Westwood One's facilities in Colorado, including some of its in-house airstaff (who would be offered vacant positions at Cumulus stations). The company stated that it planned to leverage talent from Cumulus's local stations (particularly in major markets) for its 24-hour formats. Cumulus filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2017. In January 2018, it began moving to terminate its broadcast contracts, including those through Westwood One. It emerged from bankruptcy protection in June 2018. Triton Media Group, by this point rebranded as Triton Digital ,

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