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1150 All News

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dhoule

Does anyone remember much about the short lived all news format on 1150 AM under the calls of either WHUE or WSNY? It was around 1980 (a little before or a little after). This was post NBC’s NIS service. Wondering how they could avoid it. What did the “clock” look like?
 
1150 tried all news twice

In 1975 NBC asked AM to switch to news while FM stayed with country

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NIS was a spctacular failure

In 1984 they tried CNN which went nowhere and in 1985 became WMEX 2.0
 
They did make an effort to cover local news two guys I worked with at WTAG left to join 1150. Fortunately they were able to return when they went back to music
 
I think NIS was on 1260 and then in the early 80s all news was on 1150 but not sure how they did it. Can’t imagine they could afford 24 hour local talent.
 
dhoule said:
... in the early 80s all news was on 1150 but not sure how they did it. Can’t imagine they could afford 24 hour local talent.
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I think the 1150 news format was a integration of CNN HLN Audio and some local inserts. (Think NPR's ATC and WBUR.)

For awhile CNN pitching HLN audio as a radio format, but "TV audio" on the radio never quite worked. I think at one time CNN starting offering radio-only newscasts and not just duplicating HLN.

I think 1150AM's news format had 2 local anchors (AM & PM) who would insert something at the top and bottom of the hour.
 
Wimmmex said:
For awhile CNN pitching HLN audio as a radio format, but "TV audio" on the radio never quite worked. I think at one time CNN starting offering radio-only newscasts and not just duplicating HLN.
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CNN Headline News was syndicated through Westwood One for many years as a 24/7 format, at least up until the late 2000s. According to a story in the "M Street Journal" dated Jun 6, 1989, this service began 24/7 operation with Transtar in 1989. I believe it began earlier with another syndicator, although it may have time-shared with other programming.

CNN Radio existed, offered traditional top-hour and bottom-hour newscasts, until 2012. I'm not sure when CNN Radio launched.
 


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