Clear Channel Readying to Conquer Print, too
San Francisco Indymedia reports on Clear Channel’s plans to take over sidewalk newspaper distribution in the Bay Area. The enormous radio and promotions company has a proposal in front of the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to control new newspaper kiosks in the city that will replace traditional newsracks.
Cross-ownership is nothing new, but CC’s move to take over street-level distribution is canny, since it’s monopoly creates an implied threat against all newspapers and print publications in SF that rely on newsrack distribution. Who needs to control the actual presses when you can limit how the papers that come off them get into readers’ hands? For papers, if they criticize or piss off CC then they risk losing a critical way to reach readers. And then what if CC takes over a daily or a weekly?
Previously:
Radio Consolidation –> Radio Corruption 3/8/02 Attacking the Nation’s Largest Radio Giant 1/29/02
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Uncategorized | Paul | 
May 6, 2002 2:28 pm
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