Triopoly
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Triopoly can refer to:
- Triopoly (board game)
- An oligopolyOligopolyAn oligopoly is a market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers . The word is derived, by analogy with "monopoly", from the Greek ὀλίγοι "few" + πόλειν "to sell". Because there are few sellers, each oligopolist is likely to be aware of the actions of the others...
with three sellers - A twinstickTwinstickA twinstick, in Canadian broadcasting, is a term for two television stations, broadcasting in the same market, which are owned by the same company...
or duopoly (broadcasting)Duopoly (broadcasting)In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
operation to which a third local station under the same common ownership has been added. If programming (and not just ownership) is the same across three stations in the same market, the cluster is not a tripoly but a trimulcastTrimulcastThe term "trimulcast" was first used in May 1981 by Multimedia Broadcasting's outlets in Little Rock, Arkansas, KAAY-AM and KLPQ-FM when they teamed-up with Cox Cable locally...
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