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Old CNN Headline News Stations

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Early 80's CNN Headline News TV Station OTA.

I have no idea what stations were affiliates of the CNN Headline News (originating from the Headline News cable channel), besides that cable channel of the same name (now HLN). I only know that WTBS-TV in Atlanta is one of them. For Tampa, was Headline News on the Big 3 (8, 10, 13), on Capital Cities startup WFTS-TV Channel 28 (just started broadcasting for the first time, now owned by Scripps and an ABC station), or WTOG-TV 44? Anyways, what was your Headline News Station in your city?
 
Comment on which was your CNN Headline News station in your market.
Probably everyone knows that WTBS was one of them in Atlanta.
IDK if WFTS or WTOG was one in Tampa
 
Seattle: KIRO (while they were UPN) in the overnight hours around 1995-1996. Also on KCPQ at times.
Yakima: KIMA-29 aired Headline News each weekday at noon in the mid 90s.
Cleveland: WEWS-5 had Headline News overnights circa 1992-1993.

-crainbebo
 
I'm fairly sure KMSP-9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul picked up Headline News after Independent Network News folded.
 
In Memphis, Headline News aired overnight on WMC 5 (NBC), with local updates every half hour.
 
WFMZ-TV69, Allentown (and elsewhere in the Philadelphia TV market on cable) carried half-hour segments from Headline News several times a day during the early 90s. The station also used CNN material on their local newscasts and fed stories to CNN.

I miss Headline News. Heck, I miss old, original CNN. Even ANC was better than no news and stupid talk.

Maybe someday CBSN will get its act together.
 
I dug out a 1989 TV Guide for the Bakersfield and Santa Barbara markets, which also included most of the Los Angeles stations, but I couldn't find a listing for Headline News in the latter. It might have run on KDOC/56, which had no out-of-market signal coverage and therefore wasn't listed here.

KGET/17 in Bakersfield did run it for a couple of hours every night after their late movies as filler to 5:30am.

Here's something I had forgotten: After KCOP/13 ran Independent Network News from WPIX for many years at 10:30pm after its launch, in this TV Guide it was on KTLA/5 ... at 1:00am.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Here's something I had forgotten: After KCOP/13 ran Independent Network News from WPIX for many years at 10:30pm after its launch, in this TV Guide it was on KTLA/5 ... at 1:00am.
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It have been just after Tribune (who also handled distribution of INN, as well as owning WPIX) took ownership of KTLA. It's almost similar to what happened with "Soul Train"...even after Tribune took over distribution rights in 1985 (around the same time they bought KTLA), that show didn't move from KTTV to KTLA until the fall of 1991.

Back to Headline News...I can also recall that WTTW in Chicago (PBS) carrying HN during overnight hours as well. In the L.A. market, I believe KDOC carried Headline News, but in the midday hours (if I remember correctly, it aired for a hour from 11am to noon).
 
I subsequently turned up a 1984 edition and both KTTV/11 Los Angeles and KSBY/6 San Luis Obispo ran a half-hour around 5:30 or 6:00am most mornings. KTTV was also running a half-hour of it between movies on nights they stayed on all night.

INN was still on KCOP/13 then but had already moved to 1:00am.

I'll see if I still have any Los Angeles editions during KDOC's early years to confirm your recollection, Shawn. It sounds right to me.
 
JeffM said:
I'm fairly sure KMSP-9 in Minneapolis-St. Paul picked up Headline News after Independent Network News folded.
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Yep. KMSP ran it at 12:30pm weekdays (presumably the news hungry watched WCCO's Noon Report and flipped over at 12:30). KXLI/41 (St. Cloud) also did at 10pm on weekends.
 
KSDK in St. Louis ran Headline News overnights in the early to mid-1990s (IIRC, they would run NBC News Nightside weeknights and CNN Headline News on weekends). KTVI also aired a half-hour of Headline News at 5:30 am right after they switched to Fox in 1995.
 
I'm pretty sure WCEE-13 Mt. Vernon/Salem, IL (now WPXS-St. Louis) carried Headline News on occasion. It may have even served as the lead in to their (extremely) low budget "C13 News at 9:30"
 
A great idea for a subchannel would be for CNN to run the classic format of Headline News and offer it for such retransmission. Stations could have another format during the day and carry that overnight. Might reestablish CNN as something useful.
 
umfan said:
A great idea for a subchannel would be for CNN to run the classic format of Headline News and offer it for such retransmission. Stations could have another format during the day and carry that overnight. Might reestablish CNN as something useful.
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IIRC, stations had to pay CNN per half-hour carried, so to make it a 24/7 subchannel the rate would need to be really, really low. I can't see them going to the expense of producing 48 newscasts a day and then offering it as barter ... but if they could charge a rate high enough to cover the cost and low enough that the stations wouldn't balk, it certainly would invigorate the brand, as you suggest.

Heck, bring back ANC or INN if CNN won't do it. :p
 
crainbebo said:
Seattle: KIRO (while they were UPN) in the overnight hours around 1995-1996. Also on KCPQ at times.
Yakima: KIMA-29 aired Headline News each weekday at noon in the mid 90s.
Cleveland: WEWS-5 had Headline News overnights circa 1992-1993.

-crainbebo
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WJW in Cleveland also aired Headline News at 5:30 AM between 1994 and 1997 before their local morning news starting at 6AM. Once they started the "Fox 8 News" branding, they added the 5:30 AM local newscast and got rid of Headline News.
 
In our market, WCSC (CBS) was the station that ran the Headline News local updates on Comcast. They did this at least back into the early 1990s. They had 10 minutes an hour (25 and 55, 5 minute local updates). Usually the morning anchors did the updates during the daytime, then later at night Bill Sharpe and Debi Chard (the nighttime anchors) would do them.

We also had an AM simulcast here of Headline News on a couple stations. 910 AM (WTMZ) ran it for a little bit, along with 1450 AM WQNT, who did it for several years (starting around 2000 or so) They supplemented it with local simulcasts of the NBC's newscasts at 5 and 5:30.
 
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