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Clear Channel Communications to Pay $1.75 Million in Deal.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Chris Baker, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 10--Radio giant Clear Channel Communications Inc. agreed yesterday to pay the government a record $1.75 million to settle a series of indecency complaints, a victory for regulators who have cracked down on material they deem indecent for the airwaves.

The settlement is the largest a television or radio company has paid for violating decency standards, narrowly exceeding the $1.7 million that the Infinity Broadcasting Corp. paid in 1995 for airing racy segments of "The Howard Stern Show."

Clear Channel's deal shifts attention to Infinity, which has racked up several unpaid fines since the 1995 settlement, including a $357,500 penalty for airing a Northern...

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