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iHeartMedia, Inc. 
Lowry Mays, the San Antonio entrepreneur who turned Clear Channel Communications, the predecessor to iHeartMedia, into the largest broadcasting conglomerate of the post-consolidation era, died on Monday (Sept. 12) at 87 in his hometown. Said iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman: “We built this company on the foundation and vision created by Lowry Mays. He started it all from a single station in San Antonio -- and look at iHeart today.”Mays was an investment banker sporting a Harvard MBA when he founded...
iHeartMedia, Inc.
Bob
Pittman
This radio wunderkind was programming WNBC in New York while still a teen, then went on to become part of the founding team at MTV before moving on to AOL-Time Warner, Six Flags Theme Parks and Century 21 Real Estate, with a reputation as a fixer. The Jackson, Mississippi, native now seeks to steer the beleaguered radio network through a Chapter 11 filing which listed $12.3 billion in total assets and a whopping $20.3bn in debt. Despite the threats to terrestrial radio from streaming and satellite, iHeart remains formidable as the nation’s biggest radio network, and Pittman has managed to shift its focus to both personalities and music, promoting on-air stars Elvis Duran, Bobby Bones and Charlamagne tha God, while creating the nationally televised iHeartMusic Awards and Music Festival.
