A question out of mere curiosity: Given that CBS owns competing stations in NYC and Philadelphia (WCBS/WINS, WPHT/KYW), and that in each city one of the two stations broadcasts the TOH CBS News, does the other ever broadcast CBS News actualities? Whenever I've listened to WINS and KYW, the national news reports have come from ABC.
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- Thread starter DougD
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I do not know about NYC, but CBS does have some ABC affiliates. WNEW in DC is an example. CBS Radio Network just renewed with WTOP because there is more money to be made with the network being on WTOP. So, WNEW has been an ABC affiliate since the beginning. It sounds like they are doing something similar in NYC.
There is no CBS News content on WINS or KYW, just as there wasn't on KFWB before that station was put in trust.
The old Group W stations did not automatically get access to CBS content when Westinghouse swallowed CBS. I'd have to dig back into my archives to find the exact date, but I recall that when I was working at WBZ during the transition, it took quite a while for us to add the CBS affiliation. Even after I left in 1997, the overnight TOH newscasts were ABC-I, and for a brief time there was actually the bizarre collision of an ID that proclaimed "WBZ Boston, a CBS Radio station" right into "From ABC News...."
The CBS News product comes with a big chunk of spot inventory attached, and if you're not running it within the TOH newscast, you have to give up your own local inventory to clear all those network spots...even if you're a CBS O&O. At WBZ, where we didn't clear anybody's TOH news except overnight, that eventually meant that the CNN and ABC-I affiliations went away and the station went CBS-only. My guess is that the local inventory at WINS (especially) and KYW is so valuable that CBS has no desire to give any of that revenue away, even to "itself" (which is further complicated by the reality that the CBS News Radio product, while produced by CBS News employees, is distributed by Dial Global.)
The old Group W stations did not automatically get access to CBS content when Westinghouse swallowed CBS. I'd have to dig back into my archives to find the exact date, but I recall that when I was working at WBZ during the transition, it took quite a while for us to add the CBS affiliation. Even after I left in 1997, the overnight TOH newscasts were ABC-I, and for a brief time there was actually the bizarre collision of an ID that proclaimed "WBZ Boston, a CBS Radio station" right into "From ABC News...."
The CBS News product comes with a big chunk of spot inventory attached, and if you're not running it within the TOH newscast, you have to give up your own local inventory to clear all those network spots...even if you're a CBS O&O. At WBZ, where we didn't clear anybody's TOH news except overnight, that eventually meant that the CNN and ABC-I affiliations went away and the station went CBS-only. My guess is that the local inventory at WINS (especially) and KYW is so valuable that CBS has no desire to give any of that revenue away, even to "itself" (which is further complicated by the reality that the CBS News Radio product, while produced by CBS News employees, is distributed by Dial Global.)
You never know when your lobbyists might get the rules changed and allow you to bring a station out of trust and back into the ownership fold. Cumulus did this successfully in several markets where stations were temporarily above the ownership cap and eventually reclaimed from the trust.
There is CBS content on KYW.
Every once in a while, a network spot comes from a CBS reporter/anchor.
And in the weekend overnight hours, there are at least a couple of airings of the CBS Weekend News Roundup (an almost hour-long show).
Also occasionally, where there is a big enough world or national story, KYW will air a CBS update on the story.
Not sure how they do this. Is there such as thing as being a secondary CBS affiliate?
Every once in a while, a network spot comes from a CBS reporter/anchor.
And in the weekend overnight hours, there are at least a couple of airings of the CBS Weekend News Roundup (an almost hour-long show).
Also occasionally, where there is a big enough world or national story, KYW will air a CBS update on the story.
Not sure how they do this. Is there such as thing as being a secondary CBS affiliate?
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