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Good Karma To Lease 880; WCBS News Programming To End
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Is it worth going out to my car to hear the last few minutes?
Depends on which block you're talking about. The A block is unscripted conversation. The B and E blocks are scripted mini-documentary style. Perhaps the station you listen to covers one of the scripted blocks with local reporting.
It's been part of NPR's reporting style since the beginning.
On a limited basis, typically with a newsmaker.
I listened to a full ATC episode a few weeks ago, two packages, everything else was a 2-way with an NPR staff reporter. That is new.
That may have been a one time thing. They do the reporter two-ways when there's breaking news and no time to do a produced piece. They prefer the produced piece because it contains actuality. The arts features in E Block are always produced.
Bottom line is a commercial news format shouldn't sound like non-commercial public broadcasting. Long and detailed reporting is bad for demos, which is more critical in commercial radio. Fast-paced short stories work better, and that's why WINS is more successful.
The 2-ways with NPR reporters/correspondents are not "scripted" (as you say), but that does not make them loose or meandering. They start out knowing what's going to be discussed, and they follow a rundown of the story's key points. Sometimes there's a fast-breaking story, or one in a remote place with no access to NPR staff, and then they lean on local reporters, sometimes from a member station, other times a print journalist or even a person from commercial media. Those aren't always as tight as they should be, but for some of the local people, appearing on NPR's national showcase is a big deal and they sometimes get flustered.
I'm on the West Coast. I sometimes get to hear the first live hour of ME (0200 PT), and often the first live hour of ATC (1300 PT). Mistakes get made in the live feed, and the errors or technical miscues are generally edited away or re-cut for later feeds. A goof in the 1300 or 1400 hour has usually been cleaned up by the time the second or third feeds happen at 1500/1700 or 1600/1800.
It is the status quo, now. NPR has the transcripts going back for a decade posted to their website.
It's not about "breaking news" - many of these two-ways are on stories that could run today, tomorrow, next week, whenever.
most NPR stations here in alaska now run their local news at 01 after in the morning. some stations like kyuk run a half hour of local news 3 x a day, including a combo of english and yupik in the evening
RadioLocator has a link to the final WCBS stream. It's live as I write this: http://3.90.173.238/audacy-wcbsamaac-imc?session-id=834ab0b27abeb439cda07e488d102330
With no WHSQ ID, at least not online.
I heard the station ID over-the-air: WHSQ and WCBS-HD2 New York.
Online, there was a minute of dead air, then the ESPN Radio feed. I'm in Arizona, so I can't hear what's going on OTA. 880 is KRVN in Nebraska in these parts.
Listened to the final 30 minutes of WCBS 880 via their webstream here in Houston. Enjoyed hearing all the various news sounders that had been used over the decades. Nice touch acknowledging so many of the people who had worked at the station over the years, and noting not only the 57 years of the news format, but the 100 year history of the station.
They did have a WCBS legal ID at midnight ET as the final bars of John Lennon’s Imagine faded away. Around a minute of silence followed, then a crash JIP with the sports format.
Edit to add: Didn’t hear any WHSQ ID.
They did have a WCBS legal ID at midnight ET as the final bars of John Lennon’s Imagine faded away. Around a minute of silence followed, then a crash JIP with the sports format.
Edit to add: Didn’t hear any WHSQ ID.
Going on 10 minutes of talking about Georgia Tech vs. Florida State football. Now that's what New York radio needs!
That game aired on ESPN. That's all that matters to The Mickey Mouse Outfit. Wait until next weekend, when college football starts for real and ESPN has a full slate of games.
EDIT: Games that are completely irrelevant in the NYC market, other than gamblers.
Doesn't a station have to ID with the new calls once they take effect? Every call change I've ever heard had to do so, even if the old calls were signed off a minute earlier.
I went out to the car and heard it. Although all the radio aficionados told me to just listen online, because skywave wasn't worth trying. It was surprisingly clear in my driveway in Michigan. Only faded a couple of times, and you could still hear it but with phase distortion. I was hoping for one last traffic and weather together. I was disappointed.
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