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Clear Channel Appoints Dirk Eller to Chief Financial Officer of Clear Channel International

Tuesday 04. January 2011 - Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (OCTBB: CCMO, the "Company") today announced the appointment of Dirk Eller to Chief Financial Officer of Clear Channel International ("CCI"), effective January 10, 2011. In this role, Eller will oversee the financial operations of CCI and work closely with William Eccleshare (CEO of CCI), Jonathan Bevan (COO of CCI), and CCI's Executive Committee on financial, operational, capital, and strategic initiatives. He will be based in London.

“Dirk brings both a wealth of financial management expertise, as well as unique knowledge of the Company as a whole, to this role. It is my pleasure to welcome him to our senior leadership team and we look forward to his contributions to CCI,” said Eccleshare.
As Eller takes on his CFO responsibilities, COO Jonathan Bevan will assume leadership of CCI’s growth strategy and line responsibility for the organization’s Hub functions of IT and Operations, and will review development resources to ensure that CCI delivers optimal support from the Hub and best harnesses its global experience. CCI’s Sales Operations function will also fall under Bevan’s leadership and will embrace internal sales initiatives such as CRM, Sales Force Effectiveness and Yield Management.
Eller moves to this position after serving as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategic Planning at Clear Channel Communications for six years. In his former role, he directed the acquisition, divestiture, capital investment, and strategic planning process for the Company’s radio and outdoor divisions. The Company has begun a search for his replacement, and until a successor is named, inquiries regarding acquisitions and divestitures can be directed to the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Tom Casey.
Prior to joining Clear Channel, Eller worked with Private Equity Partners in Fort Worth and Bowles Hollowell Conner, a mergers and acquisition firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Eller received a Bachelors of Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Texas A&M University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.