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American sports.

The United States is a sport-loving nation (спортни севувчи). Sports in America take a variety of forms organized competative struggles, athletic games, hunting, fishing. Most sports are reasonal (мувофиқ келади). Some sports are called spectator sports, other sports are called participant sports, some sports are commercial and professional.

Baseball is the most popular sport in the United States. It is played in spring and summer, and proffessional baseball teams play well in the fall (кузда).

Football is the most popular sport in the fall.

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Press

The United States Information Agency is the main instrument of ideological influence on the mass media and public opinion in the USA and other countries (орасида).

The agency publishes 80 magazines and more than 20 newspapers in many languages. It devotes a huge amount of work for news: commentaries, speeches and statesments by US statesman and politicians. The major materials print in the newspapers. All American newspapers in the US are privately owned, controlled and managed (назорат қилинади, бошқарилади).

A large number of publications are produced by the industrial organizations, trade "unions public service organizations and churches’ schools, clubs (саноат ташкилотларида ишлаб чиқилади). The US publishes more newspapers than any other countries. Almost every small town has its own paper (газета). In 1972 there were 1728 English language daily newspapers (кундалик).

The Sunday press is an important and distinctive feature of the US newspaper publishing (матбуот). In 1972, there were 585 Sunday newspapers.

Daily newspapers in major American cities usually contain from 40 to 100 or more pages on weekdays. Sunday editions of major papers have 200 or more pages (нашрлари). Most influential among the newspapers are: «New York Times», «Washington Post», «Los Angeles Times», Wall Street journal. The Associated Press is a cooperative newsgathering agency (Ассошиейтид Пресс, бирлашган янгиликлар йиғувчи агентликлардир).

The United Press International is a private agency that sells its informations to newspapers. The United Press Internation and the Associated Press have monopolished the news services in the USA and in many foreign countries (Юнайтед Пресс Интернейшен - Америка Телеграф агентлиги эгаллаб олган).

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Radio and television

The broadcasting industry of the USA furnishes two very important modern media, radio and television, for influencing public opinion. In the US the right to broadcast is licensed out to private companies (рухсат берилган). Today in the USA there are 4 major networks and the following number of radio and television stations belonging to them (станциялар).

MAJOR NETWORKS RADIOBROADCAST TV STATIONS

STATIONS JUNE 1972.

owned, operated owned, operated and affiliated and affiliated

1.A-B.C. (American 14 1.357 5 172 Broadcasting

Company)

2. C.B.S. (Colambia 14 242 5 196

Broadcasting System)

3.M.B.S.(Mutual System) 557 Broadcasting System)

4.N. B.C.(National 237 5 217 Broadcasting Company)

owned and operated (эгаллайди, хизмат килади).

affiliated (филиаллар)

mutual (бирлашган)

Every city has its own radio-station, and larger cities have 3 or 4. They are identified by their call letters, followed by the name of the city. Broadcasting is not controlled by government. American radio is not financed by listeners but by business men (тингловчилар, ишбилармонлар). They buy periods of

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broadcasting time as a means of advertising their wares (молларини эълон қилишга, реклама қилишга). A special feature in American broadcasting is the "soap opera", special broadcasts for women, who are at home preparing bunch of things. Practically all stations broadcast these soap operas between 12 noon and 16 on every weekday from Monday to Friday. They last 15 minutes each.

Roughly 20 per cent of TV air time is given over to commercial programmes.

The USA has powerful broadcasting stations abroad. Foreign radio services are:

Voice of America, US Information Agency, broadcasts in 36 languages, to all areas of the world (Америка овози). Department of Defense, Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (A.F.R.T.S.) office of Information for the Armed Forces, Radio and TV broadcasts in English to Europe, Middle and Far East, South-East Asia, Caribbean, North Atlantic, Pacific, North Africa.

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