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1983: Television And Radio Broadcasting
Faced with increasing competition, the three major U.S. commercial television networks—CBS, ABC, and NBC—have begun to find themselves in perilous straits. For more than three decades they thrived, taking a mass viewership largely for granted. As recently as 1977, they could count on regularly...
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