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How many radio stations still do their own local top and bottom of the hour in-house news updates 24 hours a day?

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asugeorge1

I’ve been listening to KFI AM 640 out of Los Angeles recently and I noticed that they do all of their own top and bottom of the hour news updates in house with no national network news updates. It doesn’t matter if it’s 2:00 PM or 2:00 AM, KFI always has someone live in the KFI studio reporting the news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s nice because if there is any sort of breaking local news, you don’t have to wait to hear it after the network news like you do with all the legacy CBS news radio stations like KNX, KCBS, WBBM and WCBS. You get local people reporting the news from the local radio news room, even if it is a national story.

This got me thinking, how many news / talk radio stations still do all their own top and bottom of the hour news updates in house 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no national updates? I’m not counting the legacy CBS all-news radio stations because they all do a network CBS News update at the top of each and every hour. The only other station that comes to my mind that is live and local with their own newsroom and updates is WGN in Chicago. I know it’s a dying breed in radio as everything is being moved to a national network news model, but it’s refreshing to hear some stations still do all their own news updates with local talent.
 
WOR New York has a live newscaster at the top of the hour for nearly all hours of the week. No network newscast at WOR, even though, as an iHeart station, it has access to NBC News Radio (an iHeart product) and Fox News Radio (in which iHeart is an investor). It also can tap ABC Radio News.

Obviously all the all-news station have a live newscaster around the clock, except a few that run recorded news overnight, KYW Philadelphia, WBZ Boston and KOMO-AM-FM Seattle, although I'd guess they all have a live body in the building if news should break.

WTIC Hartford has an overnight newscaster, heard after the station runs a few minutes of CBS News at the top of the hour. In many cases, the overnight newscaster's real job is to set up stories for the morning crew, but also do a few minutes of live news, sports and weather at the top of each hour.
 
WBT Charlotte has live local news at the top and bottom of the hour at least during Rush Limbaugh. I haven't listened at other times. And I only started when I ran out of buttons in my car. I had a button for WBT because Rush was the only thing I could listen to on the way home from the beach.
 
Gregg. said:
WOR New York has a live newscaster at the top of the hour for nearly all hours of the week. No network newscast at WOR, even though, as an iHeart station, it has access to NBC News Radio (an iHeart product) and Fox News Radio (in which iHeart is an investor). It also can tap ABC Radio News.
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WOR has no access to FOX News Radio. They are not an affiliate.

Rival WABC is, however.
 
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