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CNN, NBC news radio in Boston

bostonradio tweeted that yes, 96.9 and 1510 are carrying CNN news updates and he guesses they'll get the new Dial Globel-NBC News Radio 'casts. Didn't Mutual at one time produce "NBC Radio News"?
 
Its amazing how the CNN name has gone from Worlds most trusted name in news to an also ran, so bad that it no longer has enough influence for a radio news
network. I'm very glad they are trying to resurect the NBC radio name but will it also suffer irreparable harm being seen as part of a very liberal biased NBC-TV and MSNBC news? CBS has probably done the best of the original big three to have a credible or the least biased of the evening newscasts
 
I looked it up; under Wikipedia's entry for Mutual:

>>In September 1985, Amway sold the network to Westwood One for $39 million...In 1987, the number got even bigger: Westwood One snapped up Mutual's long-time competitor, the NBC Radio Network, for $50 million. Mutual was now part of a much larger programming service, and its identity was slowly phased out.

The entry for NBC Radio Network says that W1 was prod. NBC radio newscasts, weekday mornings only, by the late 90s...soon there were "CNN news updates" and by '03 W1 was doing minute long "NBC News Radio" 'casts, "written by employees of Westwood One – not NBC News."
 
I won't miss CNN radio news. I am not sure who they were trying to appeal to. Music playing in the background while they read the news, anchors who sound like they are telling a story to first grade kids (with all the exaggerated inflections)...very strange presentation. I miss Walter Cronkite ;D
 
chrish said:
Its amazing how the CNN name has gone from Worlds most trusted name in news to an also ran, so bad that it no longer has enough influence for a radio news
network. I'm very glad they are trying to resurect the NBC radio name but will it also suffer irreparable harm being seen as part of a very liberal biased NBC-TV and MSNBC news? CBS has probably done the best of the original big three to have a credible or the least biased of the evening newscasts
Click to expand...
Drudge linked to MSNBC for tornado coverage in the South.
 
WW1 produced NBC News in the 90s (after GE bought RCA and dumped radio), at that same time that it produced Mutual News. Same content, same anchors, different branding. Not a proud moment.
 
For a time WRKO had CBS News at TOH (nights, weekends etc.) They were part of CBS briefly before being spun off into diff. companies incl. Entercom

bostonradio.org seems to be down for some reason but I got the following info via yahoo and a cache of their page about WRKO
>In 1997, American Radio agreed to merge with CBS, forming the largest radio group in the country by revenue. The US Department of Justice sued to block the merger on anti-trust grounds, and on March 31, 1998, a consent agreement was announced by which WRKO, WEEI, WEGQ, and WAAF would be sold within 180 days. CBS would be allowed to hold WBMX, thus splitting up the original WNAC and WNAC-FM. WRKO and the other problem properties were sold to Entercom in August of 1998 for $65 million and two Florida stations.

cache link
http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache...c&icp=1&.intl=us&sig=2nFkGTF9NC1s4WIEs0mI9A--

Note the irony:
--For a short time, CBS had an all-sports station in town...on WEEI 850
--CBS allowed to keep WBMX, 98.5...and we know what's on there now. That station, WBZ-FM
now, is competing against the Entercom station which has call letters that CBS had for years: WEEI.
 
At one point, Westwood One would simulcast NBC and Mutual hourlies with separate anchor-voiced intros going down the respective network lines followed by a join to the first story. . I don't know if the anchor did one live and the other net joined after playing his carted intro " or if they had both on tape and the anchor started reading after his own intro tape. There was a board years ago that posted tapes of the same newscast with different intros.

It was like the stories one hears of an ABC Information net feed of a five minute hourly to the western time zone when other parts of the country used News Around The World, a 14;30 broadcast with an optional cutaway at 5:00. They used the anchor doing a slooooooow taped intro to join NATW which had a much longer intro
 
"For a short time, CBS had an all-sports station in town...on WEEI 850"

I don' tthink so. My recollection is American Radio bought WEEI programming and calls for its WHDH frequency, then WEEI went into a trust pending the sale of properties to Entercom.
 
Other than the old edict "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," I've never really understood why CBS-owned WBZ and WTIC don't carry the TOH CBS News 24/7 --- even if it were just the first two minutes of it. I believe KDKA does. WTIC always carried NBC News on the hour until the '80s when it broke with the network.
 
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