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Goodbye ABC News

rjt45 said:
Live, local, on it...that's what WABC seems to think is a winning combination! Watch out for those rating's explosions with this incredible formula!
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I assume that is an attempt at sarcasm.

As for ratings, understand that there is no realistic chance of improvement in either cume or quality...and it doesn't really matter. These two dinosaurs are kept mainly for a market #1 clearance of syndication and some spots. They'll be around wasting electricity for as long as that is a priority. Then it will be preachers or scrap.

LCG
 
The most telling comment: All the ABC affiliates that did not air the newscasts. Sound bites and spots only. Looks like TV "brands" don't mean much to the money demos - or to the talk radio audience with their hatred of the "left-wing media."

Credit where credit is due: ABC radio invented the modern form of radio news ("live at 55") that everybody still uses.
 
I will let the real radio historians develop this topic further, but the original “live at 55” concept did not begin with ABC in 1956. It was initially conceived and utilized by the Storz broadcasting operation several years earlier as part of trheir “top forty” format.. ABC adopted the concept for network purposes after NBC under Sylvester “Pat” Weaver had already instituted its hourly network “on the hour” five minute newscasts circa 1955. As I recall Midas Muffler was one of the early sponsors. I believe CBS under Frank Stanton had already followed NBC’s lead, with Chevrolet as a prime sponsor.
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https://books.google.com/books?id=J...A#v=onepage&q="live AT 55" RADIO NEWS&f=false
 
Art Landing said:
I will let the real radio historians develop this topic further, but the original “live at 55” concept did not begin with ABC in 1956. It was initially conceived and utilized by the Storz broadcasting operation several years earlier as part of trheir “top forty” format.. ABC adopted the concept for network purposes after NBC under Sylvester “Pat” Weaver had already instituted its hourly network “on the hour” five minute newscasts circa 1955. As I recall Midas Muffler was one of the early sponsors. I believe CBS under Frank Stanton had already followed NBC’s lead, with Chevrolet as a prime sponsor.
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https://books.google.com/books?id=J...A#v=onepage&q="live AT 55" RADIO NEWS&f=false
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Wrong! ABC Radio (briefly ABN) was first with hourly newscasts. Monitor did have hourly newscasts on weekends but NBC News on the Hour did not start for another two years. CBS did not begin hourly news until they ended their soaps in 1961.

And I said ABC invented the modern form of radio news in their writing style and the use of "actualities" (sound bites). Storz may have invented Top 40 radio but he brought nothing to radio news presentation. So, he scheduled news at an odd time: Big deal.

And Bob Eastman coined "live at 55" as part of his "live and lively, the American way" format of Breakfast Club clones.
 
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