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CNN Radio News is shutting down

Unfortunately, I've already deleted the Radio-Info email news bulletin concerning this story. The content of that email indicated that the majority of stations would be going with CBS Radio News, but it also referenced NBC. Hard to believe that CNN Radio News will be no more.
 
Sorry to say the CNN Radio product (which apparently had little to do with CNN other than branding and audio of TV cuts) was inferior. At least when I worked with it, mistimed, announcers constantly stumbling, and just bad. We'll see what the psuedo-NBC sounds like.
 
So WSB is now NBC or will they go with ABC News Radio
 
I have to agree with borderblaster. A number of years ago, I also worked at a station that carried CNN Radio News, and I felt the overall quality was exceptionally lower than CBS and ABC.

I would imagine that the network that the CNN affiliates go with after CNN goes dark will depend on what other stations in the individual markets are doing. If a competing station is already a CBS affiliate, that won't change. I would imagine that CBS is already in most markets where CNN affiliates exist, so that would probably send most of the former CNNs to the re-vamped NBC (unless the stations break ranks and go with Fox or ABC, if those options are available in the given market).
 
sportsradiofan said:
Maybe this will motivate WSB & WXIA into reversing the 1980 network switch.
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Oh God, what a MESS that was. What station is Peter on? What station is Tom on?
 
trusty said:
Be kinda cool for WSB to get back with NBC on its 90th birthday. ;)
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MAYBE IT WAS PLANNED!
 
sportsradiofan said:
Maybe this will motivate WSB & WXIA into reversing the 1980 network switch.
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WSB TV will only switch networks if there is move money in it for Cox. Will swapping the #3 for #4 network really increase their earnings? The network feed is really only a "filler" and gives them time to sweep out the news studio. IIRC when channel 2 went to ABC, ABC was way ahead ratings wise of NBC. I think this was before NBC had the killer Thursday night Sitcoms.* Also with the ABC affiliate issue in Macon isn't WSB TV on the Macon Cable systems?

* This post is based on 30 + years of memory. Quote at your own peril.
 
WSB-TV has been on Cox Cable in Macon for years but local programming (i.e. newscasts) is frequently blacked out for infomercials. The Fox Affiliate in Macon, WGXA, carries ABC Network programming on a sub channel. Dish subscribers in Macon do not get WSB at all. I'm not sure about Direct.
 
Bottom line:
1) Dial Global could start up NBC cheaper than it cost them to pay CNN for CNNRadio.
2) NBC Radio will be a sham. It will be done totally on the cheap
3) NBC Radio will not be "owned" by NBC.
4) NBC corporate is fully behind the new NBC Radio, but guaranteed that the talent from TV will barely be on the radio end. They won't make any extra money, so why should they do it?
5) WSB will automatically be an NBC Radio affiliate come April 1 - just like every other CNNRadio affiliate
6) The only reason WSB went with CNNRadio was the Atlanta connection. Now that it's gone, anything can happen with their network affiliation.
7) One of the many perks a radio station had when they were a CNNRadio affiliate is that they could simulcast CNN-TV pretty much anytime there was breaking news. Unless NBC breaks into their regular programming, the stations will not have anyone to simulcast (unless the deal includes access to MSNBC).
 
I dont think much of ABC radio...it's a struggle for them to competently fill 5 minutes TOH. Lots of evergreen rain-day stories, 45 second "pollen-season-is-coming health" stories. Fox Radio News is infinitely superior. Not nearly as much wasted time.
 
As far as national radio news networks goes these days, I'd rank as follows:
1) Fox
2) NPR
3) CBS
4) ABC
5) CNN
6) AP
7) Others (Salem, USA...)

CNN's quality really fell when they stopped producing the 5 minute TOH 'cast a couple years ago. ABC radio was involved in ABC News's cutbacks a few years ago that left them short on resources.
 
I would rank CBS at the top of my list of national networks. The TOH newscast is very professional and is consistent in hitting the top stories of the hour. Additionally, they have a very deep line-up of other broadasts that can be used as one or two minute shows. Or, the tag can be edited out of most shows so they could be incorporated into a local newscast.
 
Wow, what a comeback for NBC on radio; after being all but gone after 1999.

Now a "real" radio network, and for the right type, NBC News.

Although technically it has been around since 2003, it's still pretty impressive.

As for CNN, it's a shame that it has to be shut down, I thought their newscasts were really professionaly done.

Maybe they will do what FOX News did after they left Westwood One (Now Dial Global) and do it on their own.
 
oldvnewschool said:
Maybe they will do what FOX News did after they left Westwood One (Now Dial Global) and do it on their own.
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Premiere still distributes it, correct?
 
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