Many of the American Radio stations
are private and commercial. The NPR (National Public Radio)
is the public radio station. Radio broadcasting in the USA has
been categorized into FM and AM. Satellite Radio is also getting
a great favor day by day. Two largest Satellite Radio Stations
are Sirius Satellite Radio & XM Satellite Radio. Presently,
their merger has taken place into Sirius XM Radio. Earlier in
1970, FCC (Federal Communications Commission) was allowed to
issue one license of FM and AM to one company on a local level
while 7 AM and FM Radio Stations were allowed on a national
level.
There are four main Television Broadcasting Companies in the
United States namely:
NBC (National Broadcasting Company),
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System),
ABC (The American Broadcasting Company) &
FPT (Fox Public Television)
A report shows that there are 99% American families that own
one TV at least whereas there are many families that have more
than one television at home.
The progress of newspaper in the USA has slowed down. There
is no national newspaper and the most popular and sold newspapers
are The New York Times & The Wall Street Journal. Other
less famous newspapers are The Los Angeles Times and USA Today.
Some of the local newspapers are published once a week and used
by people of the rural areas. Evening newspapers have declined
to a greater extent since 1970, however, the Morning newspapers
and the ones sold on Sundays have more sales.
If we compare the number of newspapers in the United States,
we will come to know that 1772 daily newspapers were sold in
1950, but the publicity of newspapers has declined to 1480 in
2000.
The use of the internet for news, information, audio visual
programs and online business tends to go up. Some websites offer
to be browsed free of charge while some sites do not allow the
whole content to be accessible to the public freely. They get
a specific amount from the visitors of their website.
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