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It's also a radio descriptor: A clear-channel radio station is a powerful, 50,000-watt signal with interference-free nightly coverage 750 miles from its city.

Bill Mann: Here's Why the Right Wing Dominates Talk Radio Today 2009

Clear Channel, thanks to FCC deregulation, was allowed to gobble up over 1000 radio stations -- including 16 of the most powerful, (lower-case) clear-channel AM stations in major markets.

Bill Mann: Here's Why the Right Wing Dominates Talk Radio Today 2009

Broadcasting with 50 femtowatts of clear-channel power

Broadcasting with 50 femtowatts of clear-channel power shunn 2006

Broadcasting with 50 femtowatts of clear-channel power

Broadcasting with 50 femtowatts of clear-channel power shunn 2006

This was the world of AM radio, of country jamborees and wailing preachers at midnight on clear-channel stations three states away.

The Will Reed Arvin 2000

This was the world of AM radio, of country jamborees and wailing preachers at midnight on clear-channel stations three states away.

The Will Reed Arvin 2000

In addition to the mainstream stations, like KNX and KFI, broadcasting at the normal 'clear-channel' power of 50,000 watts, every now and then you would hit a station so powerful that it could make the whole radio shake, like a boom box before its time.

The Romance with Mexico Fallows, James 1991

Sarnoff, on the other hand, convinced that the key to NBC's success was its engineering superiority, its clear-channel stations.

CBS: The Power and the Profits 1976

Sarnoff, on the other hand, convinced that the key to NBC's success was its engineering superiority, its clear-channel stations.

CBS: The Power and the Profits 1976

The reordering shifted most existing AM stations' frequencies in order to create bandwidth for new clear-channel station allocations.

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