Word: bia
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...least 3,000 stations out of 11,000 outlets. In came economies of scale, calcified playlists, ROI and Dr. Laura, and out went boss jocks and news on the half-hour. Corporate stations generated some $18 billion in revenue last year, vs. the independents' $394 million, reports BIA Financial Network Inc. Along the way, though, Big Radio lost a good chunk of bored 18-to-24-year-olds, many of whom have defected to their iPods or the indies. Satellite radio is another threat, but declines of 41% and 55% in the stock prices of Sirius and XM this year...
...Women are very often the focal point of the tribe," notes Vincent Monico, a BIA spokesman, "because they run the family." Of the 504 American tribes, 43 are headed by women. Man-killer, whose unusual last name was inherited from an 18th century warrior ancestor, is divorced and has two daughters. She will oversee some 45,000 acres of Cherokee land and the tribe's industries, which have sales of about $12 million a year. Says she: "It's like running a tiny, tiny country." CIVIL RIGHTS Double-Barreled Discrimination...
...million Americans ages 12 and up still listen to broadcast radio weekly, and radio remains the top broadcast medium after TV for advertisers who want to reach a mass market. Radio ad sales in Arbitron markets are forecast to rise 5.5% this year, to $14 billion, according to BIA Financial Network, a media consultancy in Chantilly, Va. Yet as more consumers tune to stations like Radioparadise, those numbers could slip. Goldsmith's thoughtful playlists are organized by musical theme, moving from, say, a bluesy Tracy Chapman tune to a Latin-blues Carlos Santana track to a rock-blues number...
...BIA holds 11 million acres in trust for individual Native Americans. Money from timber sales and agricultural and oil leases of this property is distributed under the same program that dealt with Moses Bruno. Five years ago, his descendants began tracking their patrimony. Their experience shows how difficult it can be to prove past wrongs and have them redressed...
...about the money," says Moses' granddaughter Ruby Withrow, a nurse who administers a diabetes program for the Absentee Shawnee tribe. "I want some justice for a man who trusted the United States and was betrayed." The BIA has looked into the family's claims and says that while the records for Moses Bruno's account may not be complete, "no instance of malfeasance was found in the records that we examined." In a fax to TIME, the agency stated that "understandably, the family did not review these files with a historian's commitment to objectivity...