Clear Channel UK

Clear Channel UK is the British division of iHeartMedia, a global media conglomerate based in San Antonio, Texas, United States of America. It operates through a complex group structure, with some 70 UK subsidiary companies.

As with its U.S. parent, the entertainment division is no longer part of Clear Channel UK, but is now a separate subsidiary, known as Live Nation UK that is part of a separate company, Live Nation which is no longer owned by iHeartMedia.

Clear Channel Outdoor UK is an outdoor advertising company, which claims to provide more than 70,000 advertising locations across its four main brands: Clear Channel Billboards, Clear Channel Adshel, Clear Channel Pinnacle and Taxi Media. Clear Channel Adshel supplies of 6-sheet advertising (1.2 × 1.8 m bus stop panels) with 65% of the UK roadside 6-sheet market. Clear Channel Adshel offers advertising space at Sainsbury's and Somerfield supermarkets and in over 80 UK shopping centres as well as advertising at music venues and universities. Clear Channel Billboards supplies 96 sheet (40 × 10 ft) billboards and offers 48-sheet billboards across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Clear Channel Pinnacle offers higher-cost advertising on over 200 sites such as London’s Cromwell Road and M4 Towers, as well as banner advertising on sites including Fort Dunlop in Birmingham.

Clear Channel activities have often put it at odds with Local Authorities in the UK for erecting adverts without consent which is a criminal offence. The company has been convicted many times for such activities.

Taxi Media represents over 12,000 taxis in the advertising market in the UK.

Clear Channel has 3 main UK holding companies (highlighted in red on the table below), all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of ClearChannel International Holdings BV, registered in the Netherlands.

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