Lowry Mays, Clear Channel Communications founder, 87
Lowry Mays, the Texas businessman who founded San Antonio Broadcasting, which became Clear Channel Communications and then iHeartMedia, died Monday. He was 87. Mays’ foray into broadcasting began with the purchase of KEEZ-FM in San Antonio in 1972. He was…
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inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2004. “Lowry was a special and generous man as well as a business pioneer, and we are forever grateful to him for making today’s iHeartMedia possible,” said an iHeartMedia statement. NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt called Mays “a trailblazing icon whose historic career revolutionized and reshaped the broadcasting industry.” Among his philanthropic contributions, Mays and his wife, Peggy, donated millions to his alma mater, Texas A&M University, with the Mays Business School named in their honor.