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it can broadcast in any given week. The station started with two hours per day and rapidly ramped up to a 'complete' 39-hour schedule, consisting of 7 hours on weekdays - split between mornings, afternoons and evenings - and 2 hours on each of
Saturday and Sunday. In early 1996 the station expanded its content, for a brief few months, to almost 70 hours per week, but was required to return to its smaller schedule as it was not hitting its content quotas in this expanded form.
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