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Pam Taylor
Clear Channel Radio 606 655.6523

Michael Albl
Clear Channel War Room 606 655.2267

CLEAR CHANNEL RADIO, January 10, 2000, Covington, KY: Legendary radio guerrilla and Clear Channel Radio President Randy Michaels is staffing up for an assault on radio programming countrywide. Dressed in battle fatigues and brandishing weapons that are likely forbidden by the terms of their work release programs, Michaels and right hand programming maven Tom Owens announced today that MICHAEL ALBL will join the Clear Channel Radio Programming Swat Team as Vice President of Radio Warfare. Albl, known to many in the radio industry as the quintessential balance between programming genius and certifiable lunatic, rejoins the Michaels/Owens team after spending nine years in the bunkers at Critical Mass Media as Executive Vice President of Marketing. During his tour at Critical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel, Albl was heralded for his work in creating Nest Marketing, At-Work Marketing for Radio and the infamous POWER PIG at Tampa’s WFLZ. Albl, however, is perhaps best known for his keenly developed skills in dumpster diving, a sport he perfected during the early days of his career in Cincinnati with Randy Michaels. Quips the CCU Radio President, "Hey, it was a perfect fit: Michael really enjoyed his forays into the dumpsters and he usually surfaced with some useful piece of trash on a bothersome competitor. No one said winning in the radio business had to smell good."

Adds Owens, "This is a full circle as Michael was my first programming assistant at WEBN-FM in the mid 80’s. Despite that harrowing experience, I am convinced that Michael will bring numerous assets to our team, including an unparalleled work ethic, organizational skills, a sophisticated knowledge of data management systems and software, innovative marketing/promotion technology, as well as an arsenal of low-orbiting surveillance devices and military grade explosives. I would say that Michael is dangerously close to accomplishing his lifetime goal of having former neighbors describe him in network news accounts as "a quiet guy who kept to himself mostly but spent a strange amount of his time enlarging the crawlspace underneath his house."

In his new role in Clear Channel Radio programming, Albl will arm all 830 Clear Channel Radio stations with technology, programming, content, information and hi-tech weaponry that will be critical in growing ratings. Says Albl about his move to Clear Channel, "It's all about not knowing about what you don’t know first. Then pretending you do know what you don’t know that no one else knows you don’t know. It gets the competition every time and is a proven method of increasing shareholder value and owners’ equity."

Critical Mass President John Martin sums up his former VP this way: "Albl has some very strange DNA flowing through him. Kind of a blend of Bill Gate’s entrepreneurial genius, a hungry pit bull’s determination and John Belushi’s humor. He’s quite a package. I’m glad he’s on our side."

Clear Channel Radio is a wholly owned subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, Inc., a global leader in the out-of-home advertising industry with radio and television stations and outdoor displays in 32 counties around the world. Including announced transactions, Clear Channel operates approximately 800 radio stations and 19 television stations in the United States and has equity interests in over 240 radio stations internationally. Clear Channel also operates more than 550,000 outdoor advertising displays.