Right of the Dial The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio

Name: Right of the Dial The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio
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ISBN: 9780865479968

ISBN-10: 0865479968

ISBN-13: 9780865479968

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Authors: Alec Foege

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InRight of the Dial, Alec Foege explores how the mammoth media conglomerate evolved from a local radio broadcasting operation, founded in 1972, into one of the biggest, most profitable, and most polarizing corporations in the country. During its heyday, critics accused Clear Channel, the fourth-largest media company in the United States and the nation’s largest owner of radio stations, of ruining American pop culture and cited it as a symbol of the evils of media monopolization, while fans hailed it as a business dynamo, a beacon of unfettered capitalism. What’s undeniable is that as the owner at one point of more than 1,200 radio stations, 130 major concert venues and promoters, 770,000…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Alec Foege has written forRolling Stone,The New York Times,New York,People,Spin,Playboy,Details, and many other national publications. He currently is a contributing writer at Fortune Small Business. His previous books areConfusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth StoryandThe Empire God Built: Inside Pat Robertson’s Media Machine. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.