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In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Telecom Reform act that lifted the national ownership limit on radio ownership and relaxed limits on the number of stations that a company can own in one city.

Is radio better now than it would have been without the changes?


Choose all that apply
With the Internet coming, radio was doomed no matter what
Why are you blaming Bill Clinton ???
Deregulation destroyed local radio, and that's a bad thing
Deregulation destroyed local radio, and that's a good thing
If it hadn't been deregulated, radio would have failed 10 years earlier
Hey, it was the Republicans who wrote the bill!
I'm sure glad I sold my radio station to Clear Channel
I wasn't alive in 1996
Well, it did make a lot of money for the greedy banks
Yes - syndicated radio is better programming than what used to be on local radio
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