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The little giant of radio

GRANT ROBERTSON

From Friday's Globe and Mail

For decades, Newcap Radio has been content calling itself a small Canadian broadcaster. Sometimes, executives would even dare to refer to their company as mid-sized.Newcap is fast outgrowing those descriptions, however. It had just 14 stations at the turn of the century, but since then the company, based in Dartmouth, N.S., has pulled together one of the biggest collections of AM and FM outlets in the country.

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