As these ads blare at you from your favorite AM radio station, perhaps you wonder: How can this be legal?
When an AM or FM radio station plays a song, the composer gets a royalty payment, but the performer doesn't.
At the moment the first plane hit, I had just finished doing a bit of color commentary on some eminently forgettable technology news for a Boston business station on AM radio.
He defected to ITV in 1982 to become one of the original "famous five" presenters on breakfast station TV-am.
He spent the late 1980s and early 1990s on ITV's early morning station TV-am and hosting game and quiz shows.
As mayor during the storm and the flooding that engulfed the city soon after, Mr Nagin was an impassioned and vociferous critic of the Bush administration's response to the disaster, famously losing his temper during an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.
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Plaid opposes the building of a new nuclear power station in Wales, although Ynys Mon AM Ieuan Wyn Jones, the former party leader, supports efforts to secure a new power station on the island.
The capsule is expected to berth with the station at 7:22 am ET on Wednesday.
The privately-owned capsule successfully berthed with the space station at 8:56 am EST.
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The CRS-2 supply mission, operated by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, lifted off successfully on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 AM Eastern time.
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Lionel Victor says he left his home in Cite Soleil at four AM to walk the two miles to his designated polling station in Delma.
"Kind of the way Anastasia is bound by her clothes, station and by being a woman, I am bound by being a black man in 1864, where racism is rampant and pretty much the norm of society, " Essandoh said.
Virgin Radio - which last week decided to revert to its roots as a rock station - lost 500, 000 listeners to its national AM frequency, and now has 2.5 million listeners and a 1.4% share.
At 9:03 am ET this morning, the SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully berthed with the International Space Station.
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"I am confident that this is only the first of many scientific discoveries enabled by the station that will change our understanding of the universe, " he said.
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To beat the crowds, get an early start on your first day by staying overnight at mountain station Kleine Scheidegg, the departure point for the Jungfraubahn, and catch the 8 am train.
Cardiff West AM Mark Drakeford noted that 70% of journeys within and to Wales ended at Cardiff Central Station and argued that a far better impression of Wales and Cardiff was needed than the current "state of dereliction" of the station area.
And then when I do get home, an hour and a half later, I am nearly blinded by the headlights of all the S.U.V.s and taxis waiting at the station.
"Where before users would pick up their phone, taking their eyes off the road and hands off the steering wheel while driving to select a station and hit play, AppLink makes all of that functionality available through voice control, just like managing AM and FM radio or your MP3 player through SYNC, " said Julius Marchwicki, SYNC product manager.
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