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Instead I found Jam'n. Jam'n is the only powerful local station that is even tangentially devoted to R&B and hip hop. But Jam'n is listed as "Top 40", and it takes this classification literally. Each day, without fail, the station plays about 42 songs--Billboard's top 40 and two Bob Marley songs to add a little variety...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Looking for Community on the FM Dial | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

This isn't MTV. This isn't top-40 radio or the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. These are two street performers named David and Roselyn, playing songs for spare change in the French Quarter of New Orleans. This is Sylvester ("Sunshine") Lee teaching a class in African drumming in East St. Louis, Ill. This is polka accordionist Karl Hartwich and Cajun bandleader D.L. Menard and bluesmen Big Jack Johnson and Little Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sounding the Waters | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Infinity's $1.9 billion in annual revenue. That may not be "material" legally, but it's information an investor ought to be able to get. By the way, the prospectus neglects to warn of a possible hit on Infinity's outdoor-advertising business stemming from a tobacco settlement limiting billboard cigarette ads. CBS takes the rosy view that new clients will sign up at higher rates than tobacco companies, which had long-term leases. So it's a good thing. But until that actually happens, the lost tobacco revenue is a risk investors should be told about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stern Warning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...parking lot. Veer beyond the All-Clad pots offered at Williams-Sonoma and you might just stumble upon a cooking class. Walk into an Old Navy clothing store and you're apt to find clerks handing out tote bags for carrying merchandise, a soda fountain, and a billboard announcing the store's au courant motto: SHOPPING IS FUN AGAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That's Retail-tainment! | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Once the company negotiated its sweetheart deal with the city, the Chamber of Commerce erected a billboard declaring, 35,000 FRIENDLY PEOPLE WELCOME SEABOARD CORP. At an appreciation luncheon, Rick Hoffman, Seaboard's vice president of finance, observed that it is "really a pleasure to be associated with such a fine community and to have such a quality work force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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