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Local News Service

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bossbill

There are a couple of "local news services", with local news being provided to stations unable to afford a fulltime news staff.

Without getting into discussions about whether this is a good or bad idea, I'm looking for names of providers.
 
Hi BIll:

You might want to check with Sean Hall... former network and major market anchor. He's doing exactly what you're looking for. I think he sounds great. http://www.seanhall.com/

Cheers!

Tom Pagnotti
 
Thanks. I've located at least three services, and will check them out, to see which might best fit what we need. Sean Hall's name came up today.
 
Bill Wolfenbarger said:
There are a couple of "local news services", with local news being provided to stations unable to afford a fulltime news staff.

Without getting into discussions about whether this is a good or bad idea, I'm looking for names of providers.
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There is one in Montana called "Remote News Service" I think.
 
And Metro seems to keep cutting back on staff as well. It really just sounds like a “rip and read” of AP to me.
 
kc1ih said:
And Metro seems to keep cutting back on staff as well. It really just sounds like a “rip and read” of AP to me.
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Is buying a canned service from out of town to pretend to sound like you have a local news team that much cheaper than hiring an entry-level "rip & read" guy who can also peddle spots part-time?
 
kc1ih said:
And Metro seems to keep cutting back on staff as well. It really just sounds like a “rip and read” of AP to me.
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It's pretty funny when Salem-owned conservatalker WHK/1420 in Cleveland, Ohio get Metro newscasts from Detroit, Michigan... with all of the typical mispronunciations of Cleveland landmarks or politician's names (one Detroit-based anchor bungled Dennis Kucinich's name on WHK, never-mind that Dennis has been a Cleveland political fixture since the early 70s).

All Cleveland Metro stations, aside from the assorted few who directly use "embedded" Metro staffers as a part of their station's staff (WHK has one such staffer, but only in morning drive), now get fed from Metro's Detroit facility after the closure of their longtime facility in suburban Independence.
 
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