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92
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
SHAREHOLDERS AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
We have audited management’s assessment, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal
Control Over Financial Reporting, that Clear Channel Communications, Inc. (the Company) maintained effective
internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on criteria established in Internal Control—
Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the
COSO criteria). The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial
reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our responsibility is
to express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal
control over financial reporting based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit
included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s
assessment, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such
other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable
basis for our opinion.
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance
regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting
includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail,
accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable
assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made
only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable
assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s
assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.
Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may
become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or
procedures may deteriorate.
In our opinion, management’s assessment that Clear Channel Communications, Inc. maintained effective internal
control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on the
COSO criteria. Also, in our opinion, Clear Channel Communications, Inc. maintained, in all material respects,
effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2005, based on the COSO criteria.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
(United States), the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2005 and 2004 and the related consolidated
statements of operations, changes in shareholders' equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period
ended December 31, 2005 of Clear Channel Communications, Inc. and subsidiaries and our report dated March 9,
2006 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
/s/ERNST & YOUNG LLP
San Antonio, Texas
March 9, 2006
ITEM 9B. Other Information
Not Applicable