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| | Feature Article: Weekly Feature |
 | | About the same time that satellite radio broadcasters were starting their long regulatory journey to implementation, terrestrial radio broadcasters were facing up to the fact that sooner or later, they, too, must chart a digital course. |
 | | Digital radio receivers with memory allow for the downloading and storing of audio files that can be selected on demand, or for capturing specific news, traffic, and other programs that can be retrieved later, providing the audio equivalent of a VCR (or the newly popular hard-disk personal video recorders) for radio listeners. |
 | | Terrestrial broadcasters will be the first to boast that their trump card in all of this maneuvering can be summed up in one word: localism. |
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