Clear Channel: Less Of A 'Radio' Company Than Pandora Or Sirius XM?

By Rocco Pendola:Whether I agree with them or not, fellow Seeking Alpha contributors Cameron Kaine and Spencer Osborne stand as two of my must-read authors. Not only does each man always have something to say, but, more often than not, what they write gets me thinking and makes me react.

By Cameron Kaine: "If it's true that every person who tries the service gets "immediately hooked" as you say, then why is it that the company reports 1 million cancellations per quarter and 4 million cancellations per year?" - Cameron Kaine

By Cameron Kaine:A lot has been made over the years about the concerns over "net neutrality" and its potential adverse effect on companies such as Pandora (P) that relies on exclusive internet streaming of its content while utilizing bandwidth that consume significant data charges.

By Rocco Pendola:My Seeking Alpha colleague Robert Weinstein wrote a solid article speculating that Google (GOOG) or Sirius XM (SIRI) could end up buying Pandora (P).

Spencer Osborne submits: Clear Channel (CCO) has made a bold move. Before delving deeper into exactly what Clear Channel announced, we should look at the events that led up to where we are now.

By Spencer Osborne: Music royalties as we know them may make a dramatic shift in 2012 and any company that pays music royalties will want to keep abreast of any news surrounding the issue. Over the past decade the music business has changed dramatically. We have moved from terrestrial radio to satellite radio and Internet streaming. We have moved from buying an entire album because you like one song to simply buying only the song you like.

By Rocco Pendola:Tiger Woods won his first golf tournament in two years over the weekend. At his post-match press conference, Woods noted that his friend sent him a text the morning of the final round with some old LL Cool J lyrics: Don't call it a comeback. I been here for years.

By Rocco Pendola:As somebody who started calling into a local radio station at 10 years of age and landed my first job on-the-air three years later, it's difficult not to unabashedly admire Clear Channel's (CCMO.PK) Bob Pittman as a radio legend.