Word: formatting
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Foremost among the host of organizational issues that the council will examine is the format of the Finance Committee (FiCom), which is currently responsible for distributing 67 percent of the council’s budget to student groups through the grants process...
...video games," says Julia Fitzgerald, a VTech marketing executive. "We wanted to take this play pattern and make it work for moms." Hasbro came out with a portable color video player this year, called VideoNow, and has been putting classic games like Battleship, Boggle and Yahtzee into handheld electronic format...
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. And sing. And sing. Five years ago, just a handful of local radio stations would switch to an all-Christmas-music format a day or two before the holiday. Now, nearly 240 stations across the country have gone all Christmas, all the time, even before the Thanksgiving leftovers go dry. Two stations--KOSY in Salt Lake City, Utah, and KNEV in Reno, Nev.--even started spinning White Christmas as Halloween ended. "The decorations are around for a long time," notes Jim Ryan, program director at New York City's top-rated station, WLTW...
...foremost reason for the switch is that Jingle Bells rings the register. Most stations that change to an all-Christmas format see a spike in ratings. Advertisers flock to these frequencies, betting that holiday songs remind listeners that the season is all about giving--that is, shopping. Nor are all-Christmas formats a gimmick used only by struggling stations; even top stations like New York's WPLJ, whose Top 40 playlist draws a hip audience, have turned to Bing Crosby full time this season...
...NIRO: Well, it's a different format if you're talking to students about acting, or even that thing, uh, with the studio...