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CNN 1190
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Don't forget they'll also air Texas Tech Football and Men's Basketball this season....
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MikeShannon914
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I think there's still some value to running a local TV station's 6PM newscast audio on a news/talk radio station, if the only other "cheap" option is to run some canned/prerecorded/national/regional/whatever news. KRLD has done this in the past, and of course, several Spanish stations have run WFAA-TV's news en Espanol over the years ("Ka-Essie-Essie-Ah, Ah-emmy...dosi se tenta!")
But to run CNN, 24-7, where-is-as-is...no good. CNN, by nature, is too "visual." It's not designed for radio. 1190's done this before, way back when...KUII/KYII or KGBS, one of the revolving door of call letters in the early 1990s there, ran CNN's audio, and it failed, much like it does now. For Cheap Channel, CNN's merely filler until some moron (or perhaps a nostalgia freak with too much money to spend) comes along and buys 1190 (the rich nostalgia freak would immediately flip it back to Mighty 1190 with live jocks, of course.) CC said 6 years or so ago that the lone AM station in their DFW cluster is the odd man out. They pawned it off on First Broadcasting to sell it for them, but no one would pay their insane asking price ($20 mil? seems to ring a bell. That's why no Spanish or other foreign-language interest has shown any interest at that price.) After First put music back on it, then staffed it briefly during their country format, then stripped it back down to a hard drive again, CC took it back and put CNN on it. So my two cents again....it's just filler. Easier to sell a station that's running something, as opposed to one that's dark. Then again, what's 1190 worth now, adjusting for the RADIO-STATIONS-ARE-NOW-WORTHLESS factor? $1 mil? $8,524.12? $62.50? Nah, they'll just TRADE it to somebody for THEIR worthless property in another town. Maybe they'll do another donation deal like they tried recently elsewhere...give it to a group that can't even afford to turn the xmtr on.
But to run CNN, 24-7, where-is-as-is...no good. CNN, by nature, is too "visual." It's not designed for radio. 1190's done this before, way back when...KUII/KYII or KGBS, one of the revolving door of call letters in the early 1990s there, ran CNN's audio, and it failed, much like it does now. For Cheap Channel, CNN's merely filler until some moron (or perhaps a nostalgia freak with too much money to spend) comes along and buys 1190 (the rich nostalgia freak would immediately flip it back to Mighty 1190 with live jocks, of course.) CC said 6 years or so ago that the lone AM station in their DFW cluster is the odd man out. They pawned it off on First Broadcasting to sell it for them, but no one would pay their insane asking price ($20 mil? seems to ring a bell. That's why no Spanish or other foreign-language interest has shown any interest at that price.) After First put music back on it, then staffed it briefly during their country format, then stripped it back down to a hard drive again, CC took it back and put CNN on it. So my two cents again....it's just filler. Easier to sell a station that's running something, as opposed to one that's dark. Then again, what's 1190 worth now, adjusting for the RADIO-STATIONS-ARE-NOW-WORTHLESS factor? $1 mil? $8,524.12? $62.50? Nah, they'll just TRADE it to somebody for THEIR worthless property in another town. Maybe they'll do another donation deal like they tried recently elsewhere...give it to a group that can't even afford to turn the xmtr on.
Mike,
It was my experience that CNN Headline News made a half-way decent radio broadcast back when it was actually headline news. Now they have Nancy Grace, Showbiz tonight, etc. on there and it is just awful.
I'm not sure there is a good all-news radio format out there anymore. Maybe AP Radio News (are they still doing that?) but they charge so much money that few can afford them.
I do agree that there's some value to running a TV station's newscast audio. With as much news as they do these days, you could almost make that a format. You would still have to find something to fill from 9-noon and 1-4, but the rest of the day could be pretty much covered if you picked the right TV station to partner with.
It was my experience that CNN Headline News made a half-way decent radio broadcast back when it was actually headline news. Now they have Nancy Grace, Showbiz tonight, etc. on there and it is just awful.
I'm not sure there is a good all-news radio format out there anymore. Maybe AP Radio News (are they still doing that?) but they charge so much money that few can afford them.
I do agree that there's some value to running a TV station's newscast audio. With as much news as they do these days, you could almost make that a format. You would still have to find something to fill from 9-noon and 1-4, but the rest of the day could be pretty much covered if you picked the right TV station to partner with.
317C50KW said:
Love how Tech throws the ball.
But Pat Knight cannot throw a chair as far as his dad. As far as coaching, the verdict is still out.
The Highland Park kids always field a great team, and its golf team is even more successful.
A good thing about Nancy Grace on the radio: You don't see her facial expressions.
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thunderradio
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I say resurrect U.P.I.!!
HLN is also on satellite radio. Obviously this format is filler. :
Apparently AM is starting to be less valuable from the looks of this; a new use for the band is to expand the system of Non-Directional Beacons in order to keep the airways even safer. It's sad that the frequency in McLendon's home region is just a repeater for crap.
Apparently AM is starting to be less valuable from the looks of this; a new use for the band is to expand the system of Non-Directional Beacons in order to keep the airways even safer. It's sad that the frequency in McLendon's home region is just a repeater for crap.United Press International
UPI is still around, but barely.
http://www.upi.com/
When I worked for United Press International in the early 1980's, it was still a viable competitor to AP with hundreds of bureaus still operating across the nation serving newspapers, radio and television.
UPI gave more freedom to its writers especially in feature stories. It was known as the writers' wire service. AP was more traditional, conservative -- some say staid.
Now the Moonies own it. Helen Thomas left her long-time White House post the day after the sale was finalized.
That was the beginning of the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International
Richard Harnett, who spent more than 30 years at UPI, recalls what is often considered its greatest achievement: Merriman Smith's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination. "Smith was in the press car...When he heard shots, he called in to the Dallas office and sent a flash bulletin," Harnett says. "The AP reporter started pounding on his shoulder to get to the phone, but Merriman kept it from him." (Quoted - Brill's Content, April 2001)
thunderradio said:
UPI is still around, but barely.
http://www.upi.com/
When I worked for United Press International in the early 1980's, it was still a viable competitor to AP with hundreds of bureaus still operating across the nation serving newspapers, radio and television.
UPI gave more freedom to its writers especially in feature stories. It was known as the writers' wire service. AP was more traditional, conservative -- some say staid.
Now the Moonies own it. Helen Thomas left her long-time White House post the day after the sale was finalized.
That was the beginning of the end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International
Richard Harnett, who spent more than 30 years at UPI, recalls what is often considered its greatest achievement: Merriman Smith's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of John F. Kennedy's assassination. "Smith was in the press car...When he heard shots, he called in to the Dallas office and sent a flash bulletin," Harnett says. "The AP reporter started pounding on his shoulder to get to the phone, but Merriman kept it from him." (Quoted - Brill's Content, April 2001)
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