Whois & Analysis for iheartmedia.com

iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc) is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.

It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc), a company founded by Lowry Mays and B.

J.

"Red" McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital, LLC and Thomas H.

Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008.

As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. began to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc.

Radio broadcasting is a unidirectional wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.

Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both.

Audio broadcasting also can be done via cable radio, local wire television networks, satellite radio, and internet radio via streaming media on the Internet.

The signal types can be either analog audio or digital audio.

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated city in the United States and the second-most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019.

It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000.

The city straddles South Texas and Central Texas and is on the southwestern corner of an urban megaregion known as the Texas Triangle.

Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.

The American Marketing Association has defined marketing as "the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.".

Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, nonpersonal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.

Sponsors of advertising are often businesses who wish to promote their products or services.

Advertising is differentiated from public relations in that an advertiser usually pays for and has control over the message.

It is differentiated from personal selling in that the message is nonpersonal, i.e., not directed to a particular individual.