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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
The era of everyone watching the same three TV networks was a historical blip. Cities are lucky to have even one newspaper of their own, not that long ago, there were several newspapers in each city. Their were often multiple foreign-language newspapers for each ethnic group. There were a lot of regional record labels, rather than some big national labels giving offering the same stuff to the whole country.
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And this sort of fragmentation is exactly why TV with its three networks was a unifying factor in the culture.