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Competition and diversity among radio formats: Legal and structural issues

The FCC's laissez‐faire approach to format allocation underscores the Commission's aversion to diversity as a goal of the First Amendment. The FCC's format policy confuses variety with diversity and thus fails to recognize that competition in the marketplace typically mitigates against the ideal of pluralistic programming.

Theodore L. Glasser

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