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Though the stock is off 18% from its 52-week high, shares have more than tripled since the beginning of 1996, when Clear Channel's cofounder L. Lowry Mays took advantage of the Telecommunications Act to gobble up a succession of competitors that included AMFM, Jacor, SFX Entertainment and 26% of Hispanic Broadcasting.

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