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  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • Stuart Cosgrove, the channel's head of nations and regions, said: "The term 'metrocentric' is fashionable short-hand for the imbalances in broadcasting, but it can often obscure the real challenge.

    unknown title 2008

  • In addition to winning three Tony awards, Mr. Harnick is also one of the few songwriters to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama, which he did at the start of his career for that most metrocentric of musicals, "Fiorello!"

    Lining Up for a Lyric Legend Will Friedwald 2011

  • My metrocentric pride was wounded as I admitted to myself that, in equivalent spaces in New York, we'd probably be sub jected to Muzak.

    A Well-Loved Collection Will Friedwald 2011

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  • I heard this used on the radio today to describe the bias of the BBC towards news from London and the south of England. The context was the frantic reporting of the south being battered by 60mph gusts, against lower-key stories 2 weeks earlier when the north was buffeted by 80 mph winds.

    March 10, 2008

  • rusticexcentric???

    April 10, 2008