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Frisco Approves Clear Channel Distribution Deal

By AAN Staff
may 10, 2002  04:15 pm
Frisco Approves Clear Channel Distribution Deal
"San Francisco supervisors bowed to the City Attorney's Office once again and approved another really bad contract," Tim Redmond writes in this week's San Francisco Bay Guardian, introducing a story by Tali Woodward. The 20-year contract is with media giant Clear Channel Communications, which owns 1,200 radio stations across the country and assorted other media and advertising properties. It allows the company to erect modular news racks, called pedmounts, and sell advertising on the backs and sides. The deal gives the company "control over the distribution of newspapers in the city for the next 20 years," Woodward writes. "Even some of the supervisors who voted for the deal expressed reservations and said they were acting under legal pressure."
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