Is Your Local radio Host Local?

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[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Jennifer Steinhauer]
Nationally syndicated hosts, à la Howard Stern, have long upended the local radio geography with their generic commuter broadcasts. But a growing number of local radio hosts do their work miles from their broadcasting station, helped by advances in technology. “Remote broadcasting is far easier in 2007 with digital phone lines than it was years go,” said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers magazine. He estimates that about 5 percent of talk show hosts do this. “It allows the radio station to get the best possible talent without having to move them to the city they are in.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28host.html
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