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===Focus on music===
===Focus on music===
''Billboard''{{'}}s editorial content changed focus as technology in recording and playback developed, covering "marvels of modern technology" such as the [[phonograph]] and wireless radios.<ref name="LampelLant"/> The magazine began covering coin-operated entertainment machines in 1899 and created a dedicated section called Amusement Machines in March 1932.<ref name="Hoffmann 2004 p. 212"/> ''Billboard'' began covering the motion-picture industry in 1907<ref name="on Project 1943 p. 184"/> but, facing strong competition from ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', centered its focus on music.<ref name="Bloom 2013 p. 83">{{cite book | last=Bloom | first=K. | title=Broadway: An Encyclopedia | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-135-95020-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ib2awFyFUKoC&pg=PT83 | access-date=November 6, 2015 | page=83 | archive-date=March 16, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316160535/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ib2awFyFUKoC&pg=PT83 | url-status=live }}</ref> It created a radio-broadcasting station in the 1920s.<ref name="booksdirectory"/>
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