Wouldn’t it be great if a Republican presidential candidate could just buy the help of just about every major careful talk show host in America? Well, it may not be as far-fetched as you may think. Clear Channel owns more radio stations (850) than anyone else in the United States. They also personal Premiere Radio Networks, the corporation that syndicates the radio shows associated with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glenn Beck, among others. Needless to say, Clear Channel basically owns conservative talk radio in The US. So who owns Clear Channel? Well, it turns out that Bain Capital is among the primary owners of Clear Channel.

Yes, you read in which correctly. The company that Glove Romney ran for so long is among the “big bosses” over virtually all conservative discuss radio in America. Of course Glove Romney is not running Bain Capital any longer. He is a “partner”, but he still has a huge financial risk in Bain Capital. We’re talking about millions upon millions of dollars. If you doubt this, just check out page 34 of this community financial disclosure report. So if you happen to be wondering why so many careful talk show hosts are now being so incredibly kind to Mitt Romney, this just might be the result.

In the media world, there is a obvious understanding that you simply do not bite the hand that feeds you. Some of the most prominent conservative talk radio hosts are generating tens of millions of dollars a year. Should you be making tens of millions of dollars annually, wouldn’t you be very careful to stop offending your boss?
The deal through which Bain Capital became one of the those who own Clear Channel was begun just a short time before Glove Romney’s first run for president.

In November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced plans to move private, being bought away by two private-equity firms, Johnson H. Lee Partners and also Bain Capital Partners for $18.Seven billion, which is just under a ten percent premium above their closing price of $35.36 any share on November 07 (the deal values Clear Channel at $37.60 per reveal).

The deal was finalized throughout 2008. Today, Bain Capital remains to be one of the primary owners of Clear Channel.

One of the subsidiaries of Clear Channel is Premiere Radio Systems.
Premiere Radio Networks redirects a whole host of conservative talk radio stations shows. Everyone in the conservative world knows names such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Clear Channel additionally controls some other conservative talk radio hosts (such as Michael Savage and Mark Levin) that are not area of the Premiere Radio family.

The electricity that Premiere Radio Systems has is absolutely staggering. Recommendations directly from the official Clear Channel website…. Premiere Radio Systems Inc., a subsidiary associated with Clear Channel Communications, syndicates 90 radio programs and solutions to more than 5,Thousand radio affiliations and gets to over 190 million fans weekly. Premiere Radio is the number one radio network in the country featuring the following personalities: Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Bob (Kevoian) & Tom (Griswold), Delilah, Steve Harvey,Blair Garner, George Noory, John Boy and Billy, Big Tigger, Dr. Dean Edell, Bob Costas, Sean Hannity and others. Premiere is based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, with 13 offices country wide. So do you think that any of those hosts is going to risk viciously attacking Mitt Romney and Bain Capital during this political election season? Not likely.

One of the controversies containing plagued Premiere Radio Systems in recent years has been the upheaval over their use of compensated actors to call in on their radio shows.

Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to speak radio shows and create as listeners in order to offer shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, using planned content in the form of tales and opinions. The custom caller service provided by Premiere Radio ensures its consumers they won’t hear the same actor’s speech for at least two months in order to appear authentic to listeners whom might otherwise catch on.

So perhaps that explains in which some of the “Romney callers” come from. There is nothing illegal about what Romney and Bain Capital do, but it sure does not complete the “smell test.”

Traditional talk radio has the possible ways to sway millions of conservative voters one way or another, and it is just not suitable for Bain Capital and Romney to have such an overpowering financial curiosity about conservative talk radio.
Company, Mitt Romney is still bringing in plenty of cash from Bain Capital. Bain Capital and also Bain & Company continue to pour immeasurable money into Romney’s campaign coffers, produces tagza.com.

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