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  "title": "Metro Monitor: what it sells, price and AI features",
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    "text": "\"Watching the News For You.\" A Birmingham, Alabama broadcast monitoring service: it records TV news from all 210 US markets and many radio stations, adds online news, social and licensed print, and delivers it through Media Monitor Pro with alerts, a cloud video recorder, clip editing, audience estimates, tone and placement, custom reports and a public newsroom. Clips also sell one at a time. Side services are a media contact database with press release tools, and DAR.fm radio recording. It has no AI features.",
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