Word: broadcasts
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...million war chest into $20 million for radio and TV ads and $15 million for field operations. Most of the spending is focused on the few dozen districts where Republicans have the most tenuous hold on their seats. In the final weeks before the election, the union will broadcast a daunting $8 million barrage of attack ads disguised as video voter guides on issues like education and Medicare...
...bounding around the new company is, What does Ted want? He certainly wants an active role in management, as he made clear in forcing Levin to carve out a fourth operating division for him that includes Time Warner's HBO and Cinemax, besides CNN and the other former Turner Broadcast properties. His game plan might include lifting the company's stock price by selling off assets, cutting debt and pressing for lower costs. "Ted is magic," says fellow industry maven Glenn Jones, CEO of Jones Intercable. "He can do things and say things that nobody else...
...result is a proliferation of narrowcast and personalized news sources and a decline in traditional broadcast and mass-market outlets. People have an easier time getting the information that interests them personally, but it comes at the expense of community: they are less likely to share a common pool of information, or the same idea of which events and trends are important, than they were when nearly everyone in town read the same paper and watched the same newscasts. "The biggest single change in the last decade," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz, "is that all sorts of upstarts...
...media generation gap. Only 15% of young adults (vs. 35% of Americans 45 to 59 years old) say they are following news about the presidential campaign "very closely," a poll by the Media Studies Center found. Moreover, their antipathy to news extends beyond politics, because most stories, written or broadcast, either shut out or distort young Americans' lives. Newspaper portrayals of 18-to-23-year-olds were tracked by a team of college students supervised by Nancy Woodhull, the center's executive director, and they found that this age group shows up most in sports news, followed by crime. Though...
...Russ & Bo Show, a talk-radio program broadcast in the evening over WTKS-FM in Orlando, Florida, usually concerns itself with "women and beer," as one of the hosts, Russ Rollins, puts it. But on Sept. 25, the show addressed the subject of child abuse, commemorating the death exactly 14 years earlier of Ursula Sunshine Assaid. When she was five years old, Ursula was tortured and killed by her mother's boyfriend, Donald McDougall. The murder still causes bitterness in Orlando, and on the anniversary, the Russ & Bo Show devoted five hours to it. Between phone calls, Rollins graphically described...