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CBS Network TOH using WTOP instead of WNEW?

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Can't help but notice the CBS Network TOH newscasts are using bites from WTOP reporters about the storm damage instead of anything from WNEW. For the life of me I can't figure this one out. Why wouldn't the network use material from their own station?
 
WTOP is still a CBS affiliate and still carries the CBS TOH newscast. As far as CBS TOH news is concerned, WTOP is in-network and WNEW is not, as strange as that may sound.
 
Not incredibly surprising. That also was the case in Pittsburgh during the years when KDKA was a CBS O&O but KQV still ran CBS TOH. Interestingly enough, KDKA still goes local at the top of the hour though it airs CBS TOH from 11 p.m.-5 a.m. and on weekends. KQV these days does ABC TOH.

Was in northern Virginia for a family reunion last weekend. I'd wonder how all the FM information stations were doing. DC's fascinating for the number of such stations (but I have to admit none of them were particularly gripping. I think my favorite station there wasn't news-talk).
 
I'm sure when it comes time to renew the contract, WTOP won't be a CBS News affiliate anymore. CBS obviously doesn't want to give programming to its competition.

But when it comes to storms like this, WTOP and WNEW should work together and spread their reporters out to cover even more areas than each station can individually. And perhaps use each other's studios if there's a power outage.
 
CBS Radio Network might not move at renewal, which is in 2013 if I remember correctly. Currently, CBS Radio Network's commercials are cleared on the #1 rated station in the market. The network gets paid based on the ratings of stations that clear the commercials. They may be happy with the status quo because of the ratings/revenue situation.
 
If anyone's going to bail when the contract comes up for renewal, it'll be WTOP. CBS needs WTOP more than WTOP needs CBS at this point.

WNEW isn't going to carry anyone's TOH news unless they completely change their news format. TOH news wouldn't fit into their fast-paced schedule.
 
Wait one second WNEW-FM format is modeled after WINS in NYC. Both are CBS O&O's but they can't air CBS News TOH because of the fact that WCBS-AM(CBS O&O) and WTOP-FM(Hubbard Owned) signed contracts with Dial Global to air CBS Radio News. I do know that KCBS in San Francisco has cited both WTOP-FM and WNEW-FM whenever KCBS wants to air content where a Bay Area person is involved in a Newsworthy event in DC. But then KNBR-AM in San Francisco a Cumulus O&O has signed contracts to air CBS Radio Sports in 2013.
 
Nick said:
But when it comes to storms like this, WTOP and WNEW should work together and spread their reporters out to cover even more areas than each station can individually. And perhaps use each other's studios if there's a power outage.
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No way! Why should the #1 station in town work together with their competition and a nearly unknown station for coverage?
 
It takes a major disaster for competing stations to work together. Right after Hurricane Katrina was probably the best example of that kind of cooperation with all of the local broadcasters coming together to create an adhoc network. We have seen competitors share after 9/11, the San Francisco earthquake, Katrina, Rita, and I am sure there are others that I don't remember. With that being said, all of those events were much larger disasters than the storm that came through DC.
 
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