Television station ownership characteristics and local news and public affairs programming: An expanded analysis of FCC data

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 112-121

  Napoli, Philip M ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal Government; Information media; Television news; United States of America

Indexed keywords

TELEVISION;

EID: 23444462077     PISSN: 14636697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636690410542117     Document Type: Article

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