Some of the larger ones: WBBM, WWJ, WINS, WCBS, KNX, KCBS, KIRO, KOMO, KYW, KRLD, WBZ, WXIS, WTOP
Public stations that are News/NPR is an even larger list.
In Canada: CFFR, CFTR, CHQT, CKWX
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
All-News KOMO-AM-FM Seattle Tied for #1
- Thread starter Gregg.
- Start date
Public stations that are News/NPR is an even larger list.
In Canada: CFFR, CFTR, CHQT, CKWX
I should point out that there was a time when a lot of those stations were co-owned with local TV stations, but after CBS sold off all their radio stations, the radio stations remained in the all-news format. So the fact that KOMO is being spun off is not unusual in this format.
The News/NPR Station for Los Angeles is 89.3 KPCC Pasadena. Operated by Pasadena City College. The station is excellent and apparently is doing quite nicely-preferred over KNX by many.
But it is not an all news station; it is news and talk / commentary.
Just as WBZ is a hybrid, too. News by day, talk by night.
KIRO FM outside of morning drive is not a news station. It is a talk station. KIRO AM is sports.
Many of those all-news stations continue to have content agreements in place with their former CBS counterpart.
KNX for instance still takes audio from KCBS 2.
Presumably KOMO could do the same with KOMOTV (or a different station).
I was referring to Drive Time when most people listen to "all-news" formatted radio. Another example would be KOGO 600 in San Diego. It's a talk station except weekday mornings from 5 to 9 when it's all news.
And that's my point: Several of the stations I listed are considered news stations, even though featuring news-subject talk shows bracketing drive times.
There simply isn't enough news in the Seattle Tacoma market to support 24/7 news that isn't recorded repeats from the prior hour. NYC? Yes. Washington, D.C? Yes, Chicago? Of course. Los Angeles? Huge market, of course. Seattle? How about Portland? Anymore, too small of markets. That's why stations supplement with other related programming around drive time newscasts.
Back in the day KXL 750 in Portland was all-news in morning drive and even used nearly the same jingle from the same production house that KNX used. "All you need to know...KXL Newsradio 750". "All you need to know...KNX 1070 Newsradio".
The freq and Newsradio were reversed so it would make musical sense for each station. I would imagine there may have been many more stations with the same jingle package.
That's the thing: Back in the day... People have many choices on how to get news these days.
KYW Philly actually did their deal with NBC.
Which was the heritage relationship when the station was owned by Westinghouse.
I haven't listened in a while but does KYW not have CBS news on the hour?
I don't ever recall them running TOH net news. Always local. I think WPHT runs CBS Radio News.
But overnights are recorded, repeated news.
I personally think that KIRO-FM does a great job with local news coverage. With that being said, most of the actual content on 97.3 is opinion talk radio. You have to tune in at specific times to avoid the opinion content if you only want to hear local news updates. This is where KOMO has consistently been better. It's non-biased news coverage that is accessible anytime throughout the day. They also provide traffic updates that are arguably more consistent than KIRO. If we've learned anything over the years, it's that listeners prefer the KIRO presentation (and the editorialization of their news so they can be told what to think), and that probably didn't do KOMO any favors.
Last edited:
I believe that you have named all of them and then some! Seattle is fairly small to support an All News station. Most that exist are within the top ten markets and that's being very generous. NPR isn't even close to "All News, in the traditional sense. NBC's "News & Information Service" created hoards of "All News" stations that quickly had to fend for their own or change formats. In Portland, KYXI made a valiant effort and hung on for several years, bolstered by their top ranked AOR, until ratings for the latter went south.
In order to be viable, the market has to be large enough to provide enough news content, let alone enough listeners interested in 24/7 news via radio. Another thing to consider; as already mentioned, easily 50% of the general public get local, national, and regional news from other on-line sources. Much of that via their mobile devices. That in itself means traditional radio stations could be losing 50% of an already thin potential audience. So, rather than just ripping-and-reading news, much of it sourced from A.P., stations hold audiences interested in hearing opinions about news. Why do you think so many consumers get their news from stupid Farsebook? Anymore, news isn't interesting unless it's salacious.
NPR is a network. Stations like WAMU in D.C., in spite of carrying shows that don't just read news headlines, is technically still considered an NPR affiliated news station. KUOW is similar. Just because your definition of news presentation comes from thirty years ago, doesn't mean it's that way today.
To your point, how long ago was that? What was tried, even temporarily twenty or thirty years ago, doesn't mean it would survive today.
Last edited:
KXL still does news morning and afternoon drive, in fact they're what I've been waking up to since I moved here.
You're looking at something that isn't there. I'm basically agreeing with you while providing some historical perspective.
Is KXL News now on FM, and 750 is all sports?
- Status