Clear Channel Protest!

NO MORE CLEAR CHANNELS! STOP THE FCC MEDIA GIVEAWAY THURSDAY, MAY 29, 5 PM RALLY Clear Channel/KMEL Offices, 340 Townsend Street (between 4th and 5th Streets), San Francisco The FCC is poised to approve the most dramatic changes to media ownership regulations in decades. Leading the charge is FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Colin Powell’s son, who essentially declared war on diversity in media at the same time that his father was spearheading the war against Iraq. The Thursday before the June 2 FCC vote, media activists and concerned citizens will protest at Clear Channel radio stations throughout the United States with the message: No More Clear Channels! Stop the FCC Media Giveaway! Clear Channel Communications is the poster child of everything that’s wrong with media deregulation. With more than 1200 radio stations nationwide, Clear Channel is not only the world’s largest radio broadcaster, it’s also the world’s largest concert promoter and billboard advertising firm. Clear Channel promotes a cookie-cutter style radio that has radio stations throughout the country seemingly playing the same seven songs. It shuts out independent artists and eliminates local programming and local jobs, The company also uses its stations to promote its right-wing political agenda: Clear Channel has sponsored several pro-war rallies since the beginning of the war against Iraq. In San Francisco, Clear Channel station KMEL fired popular public affairs director Davey D after he invited anti-war Congresswoman Barbara Lee to speak on a KMEL public affairs show. LET’S SEND A MESSAGE TO THE FCC AND CONGRESS BEFORE THE VOTE ON MEDIA DEREGULATION: NO TO CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO AND THE MEDIA MONOPOLY! Sponsored by Media Alliance, Youth Media Council, Global Exchange, CodePink, and others. For more information, 415-575-5555, info@media-alliance.org, andrea@globalexchange.org, www.unitedforpeace.org.