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...toward deregulation of the broadcast industry by relaxing a 31-year-old restriction on the number of radio and television outlets that a company can own. The old 7-7-7 Rule, as it was known, stated that no company could own more than seven AM radio stations, seven FM ones and seven television stations. The commissioners voted 4 to 1 to raise the figures to 12-12-12, and said that most remaining restrictions on station ownership will end in 1990. The FCC noted that since the 7-7-7 Rule was established in 1953, the number of television...
...noisiest liberalization is a controlled cacophony emanating from the more than 800 private radio stations that crowd the FM radio band. Their size varies from that of Radio Service Tour Eiffel, a 1,500-watt operation that is indirectly backed by Paris Mayor Chirac, to Radio Panorama, operated by a baker and his wife with a 500-watt transmitter in their garage in suburban Vitry-sur-Seine. The private stations have taken an estimated 20% of the audience away from the five established, and at least partly state-controlled, stations that monopolized the air waves until 1982. Surveying everything from...
Most Let's Go buyers choose this guide--which costs either $8.95 or $7.95--because friends who have used it recommend it. But St. Martin's also invests in an extensive advertising campaign, relying heavily on radio spots on FM rock stations and advertisements in college newspapers to each consumers...
...boom has not marred their judgment of what makes a good film. Moreover, even the youngest of the new Hollywood moguls can recall the heady months following Saturday Night Fever. The studios scrambled to duplicate that film's success and came up with such box-office flops as FM, I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Says Footloose Executive Producer Daniel Melnick: "If you don't have a picture the audience really enjoys, you could have 100 hours a week on MTV and it wouldn't help." On the other...
Briggs Athletic Center (WHRB 95.3 FM broadcast begins...