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To: janereinheimer
Would such legislation pass the constituionality test?

That very much depends on who's scoring the test, dontcha think?

18 posted on 06/21/2007 6:14:09 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

This may be what’s up.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/talk_radio.html

The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio

By John Halpin, James Heidbreder, Mark Lloyd, Paul Woodhull, Ben Scott, Josh Silver, S. Derek Turner

June 20, 2007

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Despite the dramatic expansion of viewing and listening options for consumers today, traditional radio remains one of the most widely used media formats in America. Arbitron, the national radio ratings company, reports that more than 90 percent of Americans ages 12 or older listen to radio each week, “a higher penetration than television, magazines, newspapers, or the Internet.” Although listening hours have declined slightly in recent years, Americans listened on average to 19 hours of radio per week in 2006.

Among radio formats, the combined news/talk format (which includes news/talk/information and talk/personality) leads all others in terms of the total number of stations per format and trails only country music in terms of national audience share. Through more than 1,700 stations across the nation, the combined news/talk format is estimated to reach more than 50 million listeners each week.

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21 posted on 06/21/2007 6:15:51 PM PDT by abb (The Dinosaur Media: A One-Way Medium in a Two-Way World)
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