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Zedillo currently teaches international economics and politics at Yale University, where he also serves as the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He was president of Mexico from 1994 until 2000, when his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) suffered the first electoral defeat in its history...
...left his post to lead the presidential campaign of PRI candidate Louis Donaldo Colosio and took over as candidate when Colosio was assassinated in March of 1994. Zedillo assumed the presidency in December of 1994 and ran what Professor Coatsworth called a “transparent government...
...dues of $7,845, plus "carriage fees," which run as high as $1.3 million a year, to broadcast NPR programs. But in contrast to common practice in commercial radio and TV, public-radio stations don't have to affiliate exclusively with one network. Most also pay carriage fees to PRI for such popular offerings as This American Life, a slice-of-life feature show, and Studio 360, starring culture critic Kurt Andersen. PRI also distributes most of the shows produced by Minnesota Public Radio, including Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion...
Nonetheless, NPR, PRI and many large and medium-size stations have surprisingly healthy balance sheets. Though NPR has suffered a 40% drop in corporate underwriting revenues, from a peak of $33 million in 2000, its total revenue has fallen only 6% and is projected to rise in 2003. NPR plugged much of its shortfall by raising carriage fees and wheedling new cash from big charitable donors. (It recently won a $14 million MacArthur Foundation grant.) NPR has also started selling ad space on its headquarters building, and is widening its brand with two channels on Sirius Satellite Radio...
...news shows have few challengers, but its music, talk and variety programs face tough competition, not only from PRI but also from regional stations jostling to take their offerings national. WNYC, for instance, is gaining a national audience for a variety show called The Next Big Thing. Nationally syndicated shows account for 55% of public-radio airtime, a share that has grown 10 percentage points in the past decade...