The radio stations are a black urban music network, two stations based largely on the BBC archives (one music, one speech), the Asian Network, which currently broadcasts locally and via satellite TV boxes, and Five Live Sports Extra, bringing greater choice of sports, when matches clash.

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"This was all new to me: we didn't have trees brushing up against windows in the South Bronx, " Sotomayor recalled in a speech to the Princeton Women's Network in 2002.

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LightSquared Chairman and Chief Executive Sanjiv Ahuja is widely tipped to unveil a network-sharing agreement with a major carrier during his March 23 keynote speech.

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As speech-recognition algorithms improve, the spoken word could become the main interface to the network.

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