(Personally, I think that radio has gone overboard in the national consolidation of programming, such that there are now too few radio stations that genuinely - and uniquely - reflect the musical and news interests of their individual communities).
President Obama has also proposed greater consolidation of training programs, but he wants to spend an additional $2.8 billion a year on these programs.
Mr. Reynolds said the proposed consolidation of environmental programs in the current fiscal year would save $2.2 million, of a total budget for the environment of more than $5 billion.
The archdiocese last month announced a major consolidation of seminary programs, and Cardinal Egan ordered an in-depth financial review of all departments at the church's headquarters on First Avenue to identify further reductions.
Consolidation of all programs under one umbrella is being considered, and this would facilitate the development and acceptance of a national curriculum and possibly the creation of an academic department of emergency medicine at the UAE University.
However, the MoU lays the ground for a second phase including the consolidation of existing programs and an extension to the remaining provinces during 2005.
Activists have argued that broadcasters were using these agreements as a loophole for the FCC's ownership regulations, that they reduce the number of local media outlets in a market through the aggregation or outright consolidation of news programming, and allow station owners to have increased leverage in the negotiation of retransmission consent with local subscription television providers.
Recognition of that fact has played a major role in the consolidation of the programming side of the business in recent years, particularly the consolidation of broadcast networks with cable programmers -- as when Viacom acquired CBS last year.
But the Space Shuttle program's termination and a consolidation of military engine programs has taken its toll.
It is these benefits of scale that have fueled the consolidation of the television programming business, mirroring the consolidation of the cable system operators.
