Clear Channel Communications/mergers & acquisitions
Lowry Mays, who is now one of the wealthiest men in the business, started with a struggling radio station and turned it into one of the world’s largest media empires. Through risk taking, mergers, and acquisitions he is now operating in 34 nations around the world, with a group of stations that represents the largest critical mass of broadcasting companies in the world. Mays, not only the chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Communications and but also a namesake of Texas A&M’s business school. Mays, graduated Texas A&M in1957, in 1972 borrowed $125,000 to purchase failing KEEZ-FM in San Antonio. In 1984, when restrictions got more lenient he started buying up all these little companies around him. Today, the $50 billion company owns 1,100 radio and TV stations and 550,000 billboards worldwide. What was once a poorly performing station was transposed by Mays, in his opinion, It was performing poorly because it was an FM station and in those days, radio was dominated by AM. The FM band was a new thing and that was something not many wish
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San Antonio, Channel Communications, Lowry Mays, Motors DIRECTV, Texas A&M, Texas A&Ms, channel communications, radio billboards, expansion expansion, outdoor advertising, XM Radio,
Approximate Word count = 711
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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