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• a  not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises

• Miraculously, he's forged an ad strategy that appeals to his bosses, online advertisers and Web purists who love Google's noncommercial look and feel.
• All the theater work is noncommercial, which means that there's no pressure to write a hit song.
• It is a "noncommercial" (meaning free and legal) service, but many big acts turn up on the site, including Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz and the Grateful Dead.

• commercial

News & Articles

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• James L. Loper dies at 81; helped make KCET a public broadcasting power
  James L. Loper, a founder and former president of KCET-TV Channel 28, helped build the public broadcasting station into one of the nation's leading noncommercial outlets. James L. Loper, a founder and former president of KCET Channel 28 who helped build the public broadcasting station into one of the nation's leading noncommercial outlets, has died. He was 81.
  July 11, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Jeff Bingaman in CNN
  The practice of including investment banks in the commercial participant category calls into question the CFTC's continued assertion that noncommercial participants, or speculators, follow rather than lead oil price movements,Bingaman wrote...
• Anatoly Chubais in International Herald Tribune
  ...Chubais, Russia's former privatization czar who now heads electricity monopoly RAO Unified Energy Systems and survived an assassination attempt last year, called Kozlov "an unquestionably honest, principled and absolutely noncommercial...
• Gigi Sohn in Washington Post
  We support what we have heard today about the Commission's proposals, although we would like to know more about how the set-aside for noncommercial channels would be implemented,Gigi Sohn, the group's president, said in a statement.