Clear Channel donates radio stations to support minority ownership initiative

[Newsjock]

Source: San Antonio Business Journal

Clear Channel Radio has agreed to donate stations and equipment to the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council as part of a move to increase diversity in media ownership.

Clear Channel Radio will donate a number of AM station to the council through the MMTC-Clear Channel Ownership Diversity Initiative. Initially, Clear Channel Radio plans to donate AM radio stations KYHN in Fort Smith, Ark.; WTFX in Winchester, Va.; KMFX in Rochester, Minn.; and WHJA in Laurel, Miss.

The council will work with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Education Foundation’s Broadcast Leadership Training Program to use these radio stations for training purposes as well as incubate a new generation of minority and women broadcast owners, says David Honig, president and executive director of the council.

... The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council is a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that works to promote equality and civil rights in the mass media and telecommunications industries.

Read more: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/07/20/daily15.html

[KamaAina]

1. They've got to be getting a tax writeoff or something

no way would CCA do anything out of the goodness of their heart*!

[KamaAina]

2. Sho' 'nuff. All four stations are currently silent!

They'd get their licenses pulled eventually, anyway.

[Enthusiast]

3. Probably an attempt to stave

off possible media regulations. They can do it like BushCo-voluntary. :rofl:

[imdjh]

4. It would be interesting to see how a minority station does in Winchester, VA

I haven't been there in a while, for all I know it's a train station in Cairo, but the last time I was there they were one short of the required number of minority members required for a radio station.