clear channel

American  

noun

Radio.

1. a radio broadcast channel cleared for long-distance broadcasting during nighttime hours.

2. a broadcast channel free of undesirable interference.

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Other Word Forms

• clear-channel adjective

Example Sentences

Previously known as Clear Channel Communications, the company has experienced the dark side of automation and programming centralization.

From Los Angeles Times

Congress then drilled into alleged harms of media consolidation and the failure of broadcasters to alert the community during the disaster in Minot, where Clear Channel owned six of the eight commercial radio stations.

From Los Angeles Times

Clear Channel later said local police failed that night to activate the emergency alert system, which would have allowed the broadcast of special bulletins.

From Los Angeles Times

As it has after other mass casualty events, GoFundMe assigned a “crisis team” to determine whether the campaigns were actually linked with victims’ families, suspending some where there was no clear channel to direct money to the people it was ostensibly being raised for, said Leigh Lehman, a spokeswoman.

From New York Times

Of all of his business achievements, Clear Channel was his most significant, Mr. McCombs declared in his autobiography.

From New York Times