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Best Network News for Radio?

Oh, I forgot about that.

It sounds like they're gonna syndicate 3 hour news blocks (much like news/talk radio stations do locally in drive-time in many markets)...I don't see anything about a 24/7 hourly service.
 
travisl5678 said:
Talk_Dude said:
Maybe it's because I'm really old and miss the olden days, but I still prefer hearing a good, local rip-n-read newscast.
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And It doesn't take much to do a local TOH newscast, I've heard FM country outlet in a town of 3,000 do a great TOH newscast and then run the end of Fox News Radio for World and National news. Also carrying Fox News Radio brings in Brand Power in some Conservative Towns. Here in San Francisco we have two stations that run ABC, KSFO, the Conservative News/Talker owned by Citadel, and the other Citadel News/Talker KGO, both have a local newscast to follow ABC. ABC News is also on KFRC, the True Oldies Affilate. Fox News is on KNEW, the local CC talk station, with CNN on CC's other station a left wing talker. CBS is on KCBS 740 and 106.9, an All-Newser, and we also have IRN-USA on the propane-at-night KTRB, any thoughts on IRN-USA Radio News? Or SRN for that matter? (Which we have on both the Salem stations KFAX and KDOW (KDOW runs CNBC Radio during the Day) I think NBC has a TOH newscast now
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IRN-USA isn't half bad. They also seem to have a news sharing agreement with AP for news personnel. Rich Johnson (FNR's current White House beat reporter) is the most notable alum. Plus, they do have barter long-form programming on the side, which could come in handy for a smaller-market or religious signal. Interestingly, that programming acts as filler for WERE/1490 Cleveland, the market's urban talk station that airs brokered programming at nights.

As for NBC News Radio, that's a one-minute newscast fed from 6a-10p EST on weekdays. NBC personnel deliver the newscasts, but are written by WW1 staff. (Still, it beats the last sorry years of "NBC Radio News," which was produced at Black Rock entirely by CBS employees.) I highly doubt that "NBC Radio" will ever be revived into anything more than this current incarnation.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Still, it beats the last sorry years of "NBC Radio News," which was produced at Black Rock entirely by CBS employees.
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Just an FYI: The only news operation in Black Rock was WCBS-AM. They have since moved out. But I don't think they had anything to do with what you're talking about.
 
I think CBS Radio News produced the near-dead "NBC Radio News" out of northern VA. The old Mutual was in that mix somewhere (VA was Mutual News' home base).
 
KeyTimes950 said:
Is this separate from or a redevelopment of "America's Morning News" that TRN syndicates?
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"America's Morning News" is right-wing talk trash (and I'm a conservative-leaning independent)...just as S-R-N is pretty pitiful too with all of their "Bible news" items.

My favorite though is how S-R-N's anchors have seemingly been coached to say "ho-mo-sexual" and the phrase "ho-mo-sexual agenda" rolls off their tongues a little too easy. Other words they have been coached on are "Kur-is-tean" and "Geee-zus Christ." I'm surprised how Portland's non-SRN owned station (KXFD-AM Freedom 970)which is connected to the venerable 750 KXL is airing these substandard SRN TOTH newscasts.
 
Talk_Dude said:
If you're talking about a news program to put on a talk format station, what real difference does it make? When you switch from music to news, most of your listeners are changing to a different station anyway. If listeners want music, they tune to a music station. When they want news, they switch to a news station. It's not the 1960's or 70's anymore, though you'd never know that from the experiences pros who learned all they needed to know when they were starting in radio back then, and haven't seen the need to learn anything new since then.
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Most markets don't have a radio "news station" - too expensive to operate. The talk station in these markets, if their operators are smart - takes the "news image" by operating a decently staffed (for the market) news department. And yes...they still exist.
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
I think CBS Radio News produced the near-dead "NBC Radio News" out of northern VA. The old Mutual was in that mix somewhere (VA was Mutual News' home base).
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The Mutual/NBC facility in VA (Crystal City?) shut down on August 31, 1998. Between then and May 1999 (when WW1 formally dissolved the Mutual name and switched those affiliates to CNN Radio), both Mutual and NBC were produced at CBS Radio's studios in New York.

After May 1999, NBC was still produced directly at CBS Radio, but only from 5am-10am weekdays - the same times that First Light was and is fed via satellite. These were the most generic newscasts ever aired - with the only "NBC" ID coming right at the very end. Otherwise, you wouldn't know what it was from. (The now-defunct WBKC/1460 Painesville was one of the last remaining NBC affiliates.) The rest of the hours were filled with CNN Radio newscasts.

I have no date for whenever "NBC Radio News" finally shut down, but it did overlap with "NBC News Radio" for nearly a year. My guess is sometime in May 2004.
 
When it comes to both depth and fairness of coverage, numerous surveys by the Pew Research Center come to one conclusion--listeners pick NPR over all the others hands down. They did content analysis on basis of thoroughness, freedom from partisan bias, and inclusiveness of all sides on an issue, and came to the same conclusion.

Maybe that's why Arbitron says Morning Edition and All Things Considered are both challenging Rush for the lead in network radio programming listenership...
 
Nathan Obral said:
After May 1999, NBC was still produced directly at CBS Radio, but only from 5am-10am weekdays - the same times that First Light was and is fed via satellite. These were the most generic newscasts ever aired - with the only "NBC" ID coming right at the very end. Otherwise, you wouldn't know what it was from. (The now-defunct WBKC/1460 Painesville was one of the last remaining NBC affiliates.)
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...as were WGLB-AM-FM Port Washington WI and WMCW Harvard IL -- both of which I worked for during that final period, and two of the three (WGLB-FM and WMCW) are also now defunct...
 
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