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Brooke Gladstone Reports That In An Effort To Shrink Its Deficit,

the city of New York has sold a public television station. Dow Jones and ITT bought WNYC for more than $200 million. Now cities and stations around the country are considering similiar sales as a way to raise quick cash.

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