Or so goes the theory as it's been applied by regulators since the days when radio was the only broadcast medium available.

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Free-speech advocates argue that the Internet, unlike a broadcast medium, requires users to pay access fees and that then they must persistently search out sites.

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For instance, as I previously wrote, many companies treat social media as a broadcast medium, when social media should be a mechanism for one-to-one and many-to-many conversations with customers, employees, investors, and other key stakeholders.

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Despite this, the main radio stations will still be broadcast on FM and medium wave as usual while the digital stations - such as 1 Extra and BBC7 - will still be available on satellite, cable, through digital radios and online.

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Many people in rural areas get most of their news from radio, which is dominated by the state broadcaster, although several stations based abroad broadcast to Zimbabwe on shortwave and medium wave.

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Reuter news material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.

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Reuters news material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.

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Associated Press news material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium.

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For newspapers, the so-called "panic broadcast" brought newspapers an exceptional opportunity to censure radio, a still-new medium that was becoming a serious competitor in providing news and advertising.

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