I mean... I was gifted a C Crane Pocket radio for Christmas this year and actually use the NOAA weather radio feature at times.
Yup, I am, too. I'm in my mid-20s. CBS TOH updates are my primary (and often only) news consumption. It's been that way since middle school. If there's something on one of the newscasts that I find interesting, I'll dig deeper online.
I'm an outlier too! However, my formative years happened at a time when radio still had some relevance (late 90s and early 2000s), so I'm probably less than an outlier than you (in general, many people under 30 barely know what radio is, because they grew up online during a time where the only things they know are Google, Facebook and Twitter, among other
WSAT outside Charlotte is a community station with a lot of local advertisers. I haven't listened since it switched from 60s and 70s to 70s and 80s, but it has had Fox News Radio for several years. I never perceived a conservative bias.
I remember Stardust (ABC standards) affiliates could do one of three versions. I never heard an affiliate play music during the first two minutes or so, so I think the newscast was just part of the feed. But there was one station that would drop the newscast after the first opportunity, run commercials, and go back to music. Another affiliate would stay with the newscast until it went back to music. And then there were cases where the entire first six minutes of the hour was a newscast followed by commercials. One affiliate did this with another network's newscast.
I think I'm remembering correctly that the standards station in Charlotte used Salem, and then switched to Town Hall. I may have heard on this site that Town Hall was Salem. At least one of the other stations under the same owner as the standards station were Christian talk, and the standards station went back to simulcasting that station or those stations.
I like that third one. The first one is what used to be on two stations I listen to. One gave up top of the hour news, and wasn't even airing it live, but would finish the song first.You can download the old and new CBS News sounders as MP3s here:
CBS News Radio Ringtones
Tired of your old, boring ringtone? Take CBS News Radio with you by using our Top of the Hour jingle.www.cbsnews.com
The few times I've sampled FNR, I didn't notice much of a bias either. I think the problem is more the toxicity of the Fox brand among liberal listeners; in other words, they will refuse to pay any mind to anything with the word Fox in its name, especially if it's news related.
During severe weather I watch Ryan Hall Y'All or Reed Timmer (a friend is one of his YouTube chat moderators) when I want to get my weather geek on.
The bias can be there but difficult to see. Let's pretend the top 10 news stories in the current hour are: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. CBS's newscast airs A, B, C, D, E, F, maybe G if enough seconds remain in the cast.
So the same company will be running both non-commercial and commercial stations on different frequencies.I think NPR understands that. There is an NPR station in Buffalo, WNED, that is in the commercial band and has decided to go commercial. They went to NPR and asked if they could run NPR programs on their commercial station. NPR told them no.
Buffalo Toronto Public Media To Launch Commercial Full Service Talk Station
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Primarily television talent sound terrible on the radio. They don't know how to write for it, and they aren't selected for TV roles based on their vocal talent.
She hasn't led a large organization before. I think that's why Cibrowski is still there, to keep things running, because he has had that kind of experience.
