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STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT THIS WEEK!!
Mar 08, 2010  The Boys’ and Girls’ State Basketball Tournament Tuesday in Albuquerque. The venues are the same as last year, and include Bernalillo High School, Santa Ana Star Center, and the UNM Pit. There will be phone lines available in the Pit along the media table, and at the Santa Ana Star Center on the floor as well as in the press box. However, because of space limitations, please contact Suzan Strong at the NMBA to “reserve” your place at these venues.
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Minority church group takes on PRA
Radio Business Report, February 26, 2010
The National Black Church Initiative, a group of 34K that represents the interest of church- and minority-owned broadcasters, is asking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to see to it that the Performance Rights Act is rejected, saying that its passage would “make it even more difficult for minorities and minority churches to maintain their current stations…”
They added that it would also make it extremely difficult to expand. But they’d have to survive with what they now have to even consider expansion. “We cannot ignore the important role local radio plays in helping to shape the message to and image of the African-American community,” wrote NBCI. “If African-American radio ownership fails, then that voice is gone for good.”
The Free Radio Alliance applauded the letter, and spokeswoman Peggy Binzel stated, “Local African-American and religious radio stations are already experiencing significant declining revenues. What good will it do record labels if there are no stations left to play their music? More importantly, what will happen to the people in those communities that rely on these stations for their news, information and ministry?” Binzel continued, “The African-American and religious community are already underrepresented on the airwaves. Under the record labels’ proposal, they could go from underrepresented to extinct. This is bad policy and the opposite of what we need to increase minority ownership and programming.”
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