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CBS RADIO NEWS ON KDKA?

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Bob E. Nelson

Does KQV still carry CBS hourly news?

Regardless of the answer, what network news service does KDKA use (if any)? If it's anything other than CBS, why have they not switched to the radio network of their parent? I'm far out of the market and the KD skywave doesn't make it here to D/FW, especially during the summer months, so I can't listen.
 
for many years KQV was the CBS affiliate........

that changed ( maybe 2 years ago ???) and KDKA now has CBS and DOES use news on the hour ( weekends at least i haven't heard late nights in a while)

dunno if KQV picked up another net or not
 
radiomayor2 said:
for many years KQV was the CBS affiliate........

that changed ( maybe 2 years ago ???) and KDKA now has CBS and DOES use news on the hour ( weekends at least i haven't heard late nights in a while)
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Thanks for the info. Like KDKA itself, the CBS Radio Network doesn't quite have the panache that it did even a decade and a half ago. As recently as the early 90's, CBS Radio still had some prestigious affiliates like WBEN, WOAI, WCKY, WLAC, KTRH and WHAS. Now aside from its O&Os, it's seemingly ABC (or, to a lesser degree Fox) heard on the big blowtorches.
 
KQV uses AP Network news at the top of each hour. If you want to listen online, go to KQV.COM and click the listen online at the top.
 
KQV ditched CBS radio over the Dan Rather fiasco. Old man Scaife really doesn't impose himself on the station all that often (which is a surprise being the way that he rules the newspapers) but on this one he wanted them out and that was that. Yes it cost the station some $$.

KDKA was running CNN radio news which is also sydicated by their soon to be former partner Westwood One so moving to CBS wasn't as big a deal as it might have appeared on the surface.
 
clangham said:
KQV uses AP Network news at the top of each hour. If you want to listen online, go to KQV.COM and click the listen online at the top.
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Well, the price is certainly right for AP. I think it's still bartered through Jones Satellite Networks. I personally don't think they offer near enough for a full-fledged all-news operation.
 
It is and its a shell of what it once was. Their breaking news stuff is just plain horrid as was witnessed in their coverage of the terrorist incident in Glasow over the weekend. Shamefully bad.
 
I would have thought that maybe they would have gone back to ABC. That would have been the sensible choice, picking up ABC/I. Paul Harvey makes a comeback!
 
Paul Harvey is now a seperate package from ABC/I. KQV wouldn't touch them because the costs in real $$ and inventory would be excessive.
 
What is Paul now, 247 years old?

You exaggerate! He's not much past 100.
 
Snafu said:
Paul will be 89 on 09/04.

His contract with ABC is open ended.
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His son occasionally fills in for him and is groomed to be his successor, but I don't see ABC proliferating that commentary after Paul Sr. passes on.
 
Paul's son has been writing a large portion of "The Rest of the Story" since about 1985. He's not in ABC's future plans in any way, shape or form. I suspect that when Paul finally signs off they will either fold the tent on the Harvey type show or if enough affiliates jump up and down about it they might throw Olberman at them.
 
Snafu said:
Paul's son has been writing a large portion of "The Rest of the Story" since about 1985. He's not in ABC's future plans in any way, shape or form. I suspect that when Paul finally signs off they will either fold the tent on the Harvey type show or if enough affiliates jump up and down about it they might throw Olberman at them.
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I don't think you'll have the affiliates really jumping up and down over the continuation of Paul Harvey. I've talked to a lot of PD's who have told me that the only reason they keep him on is because the old folks love him and will make a ton of noise if he's off. It's not really that big of an advertiser draw anymore.
 
Yeah, for most of the country Paul is an oddity; radio left over from another era. But for those stations in Out In The Middle of Nowhere, Nebraska not having Paul Harvey to follow up the farm report is as close to the end of the world as they want to get.
 
Snafu said:
Yeah, for most of the country Paul is an oddity; radio left over from another era. But for those stations in Out In The Middle of Nowhere, Nebraska not having Paul Harvey to follow up the farm report is as close to the end of the world as they want to get.
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Very true. Paul's popular with the rural audiences who listen to him on the local radio stations that still use voice production and jingles from the 1960's, and have a massive farm report in their noon news. I hear Paul all the time in places like northwest Ohio, northern Michigan, Iowa, and southcentral Illinois.
 
I wonder, however, if putting Keith Olberman in that slot in a somewhat similar program would interest enough of the right type of demographic to make it worth a slot once Paul is gone? He's the last person I would have picked as a fill-in but was just this side of brilliant when he filled in for Paul the summer his voice went south.
 
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