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...BUSES. People would use buses more, suggested Mrs. Carmen Dinicola of Alexandria, Va., if they had FM radio channels and served coffee and food "like the airlines...
Sleepy listeners to WITT, a soft-spoken popular-music FM radio station in Tuscola, Ill., may have wondered whether some lunatic had just been named station manager. A news program came on at 6 a.m., as it does every morning-but it did not go away. At this moment, the news is still playing on WITT, and there is no indication when Glenn Miller and the top 40 will return...
...feature programs that has become the hottest formula in radio. Pioneered in 1961 by XTRA, a station in Tijuana, Mexico, that beamed its signal to Southern California, all-news had until last week been adopted by fewer than 20 of the nation's 7,140 AM and FM outlets. But those form an elite group: New York City's WCBS, the nation's most listened to station; KNX in Los Angeles, which has climbed from eighth place to first place in L.A.-area ratings after switching to all-news in 1968; and first-or second-place stations...
...aside for local news, but stations can devote up to 36 minutes to local programming if they choose to. When the service first opened its mouth at 6:06.30 a.m. last Wednesday, some 80 stations had signed up-from Tuscola's WITT to NBC'S own FM station in New York City, newly renamed WNWS-for a monthly fee of from $750 to $15,000, depending on the size of the local market...
...lost in its previous manifestation. He promises to keep the magazine going for a year and then reassess his commitment. "If it's a total turkey, I'll close it," he says. But for Coppola, who also owns a San Francisco theater, FM radio station and various other local enterprises and real estate, City is a reaffirmation of both his affection for San Francisco and his imaginative megalomania. "I don't know if all my ideas for City will work, but they're worth trying," he says. "In publishing, the margin of error is small...