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I noticed that AAA station 99.1 the sound North Carolina has hourly NBC News

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recto101

http://www.991thesound.com/

I thought NBC stopped doing radio in 1987-1988 when they sold KYUU, KNBR and WNBC to different owners. Check out the hourly updates at 1:00pm San Franicisco time from 991the sound site and you will hear Tim Russerts son doing the NBC Radio hourly news.
 
IIRC they sold the radio network to Westwood One... In 1987 it was, according to the W-----dia page.
 
1069_KIFR said:
Is that his on-air name? "Good afternoon, I'm Tim Russerts son, here are our top stories....."
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OK its really Luke Russert that I heard doing the NBC News Radio updates on 99.1 FM the Sound.
 
recto101 said:
http://www.991thesound.com/

I thought NBC stopped doing radio in 1987-1988 when they sold KYUU, KNBR and WNBC to different owners. Check out the hourly updates at 1:00pm San Franicisco time from 991the sound site and you will hear Tim Russerts son doing the NBC Radio hourly news.
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"NBC News Radio", "CNN Radio", "ESPN Radio", CBS News and others are all products of Westwood One. The first three are used under license from their respective owners, just as Citadel uses the "ABC News Radio" moniker for its newscasts. As far as I know, "NBC News Radio" (this is different from the former "NBC Radio") operates only during morning drive time.
 
DavidKaye said:
recto101 said:
http://www.991thesound.com/

I thought NBC stopped doing radio in 1987-1988 when they sold KYUU, KNBR and WNBC to different owners. Check out the hourly updates at 1:00pm San Franicisco time from 991the sound site and you will hear Tim Russerts son doing the NBC Radio hourly news.
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"NBC News Radio", "CNN Radio", "ESPN Radio", CBS News and others are all products of Westwood One. The first three are used under license from their respective owners, just as Citadel uses the "ABC News Radio" moniker for its newscasts. As far as I know, "NBC News Radio" (this is different from the former "NBC Radio") operates only during morning drive time.
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And its like Clear Channels "Fox News Radio" used on KNEW 910.
 
DavidKaye said:
"NBC News Radio", "CNN Radio", "ESPN Radio", CBS News and others are all products of Westwood One. The first three are used under license from their respective owners, just as Citadel uses the "ABC News Radio" moniker for its newscasts. As far as I know, "NBC News Radio" (this is different from the former "NBC Radio") operates only during morning drive time.
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I took a look at the Westwood One website. They changed it a few years ago. "NBC News Radio" operates 6am to 10pm Eastern, with 1-minute newscasts. So, they cut back a bit on the cast (I think it used to be 2 minutes) and they've extended it throughout the day. For info about all the Westwood One programs and networks: http://www.westwoodone.com/
 
The "NBC Radio Network" officially ceased to exist in 1989, when Westwood One merged it into Mutual Broadcasting. Separate production of newscasts continued until 1992, when one anchor did both the Mutual and NBC TOH newscasts at the same time.

When CBS bought WW1 and merged the CBS Radio network into it, the MBS and NBC names were kept alive until May 1999. MBS was retired (the few remaining affils switched to CNN), and NBC only fed newscasts for a six-hour duration in weekday morning drive - during the same period that "NBC's First Light" was and continues to be fed. (Those stations received CNN newscasts for the other 18 hours of the day.) In fact, Dirk Van STILL announces at the end of "First Light" every day that "this is the NBC Radio Network" (ostensibly to keep the trademark alive and in WW1 hands).

"NBC News Radio" is a cross-promotional tool for MSNBC that WW1 launched in 2003 or so - one year before the last five-minute "NBC Radio News" cast aired. (That newscast only used the 1981 sounder as its' sole identifier; other wise, it was a "CBS Radio News" cast re-purposed as a generic newscast.)

So few stations aired that final "NBC" newscast that I have never found an endpoint.
 
DavidKaye said:
"NBC News Radio", "CNN Radio", "ESPN Radio", CBS News and others are all products of Westwood One.
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Disney/ABC still owns and operates ESPN Radio (with Citadel providing distribution capacity just like ABC News Radio).

Westwood One, however, does also distribute both "CNBC Radio" and "MarketWatch.com" (the former "CBS MarketWatch," which, if I'm correct, is now in the hands of News Corp.'s Dow Jones division) in addition to CBS Radio, NBC News Radio and CNN Radio.
 
recto101 said:
Doesn't Clear Channel own Fox News Radio and Fox Sports Radio like a certain percentage of it.
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Premiere Radio Networks - Clear Channel's syndication arm - handles distribution for Fox News Radio, but Fox News Channel itself is responsible for content and production. (The terms from this distribution deal also called for all of Clear Channel's news/talkers to flip news affiliations to Fox back in 2005-2006.)

Fox Sports Radio, OTOH, is run outright by Premiere via a licensing agreement with Fox Sports.
 
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