More than one network newscast on one station?

[mjlarochelle]

Have any American television stations ever in history aired more than one network's newscast? For example, if a market had a dual CBS/NBC affiliate, did it ever air both the CBS and NBC newscasts?

I ask because NTV in Newfoundland and Labrador is adding Global National to its schedule next week, and there is no indication so far that they are dropping CTV National News. Global National airs at 6:30 PM on Global Maritimes, so it will probably air at 7 PM on NTV immediately following the award-winning NTV Evening Newshour, as Newfoundland is a half hour ahead of the other Atlantic provinces. CTV National News airs at 11 PM nationwide. NTV is not technically an affiliate of either CTV or Global, but airs select programming from both networks.

 

[bpatrick]

Back around 1962 or '63 Atlanta's Channel 11
(then an ABC affiliate) carried Ron Cochran (ABC)
and Walter Cronkite (CBS, pre-empted on WAGA).
WTVK/26 (now WVLT/8) did the same thing; it,
too, was an ABC affiliate at the time, and WBIR
pre-empted Cronkite.

WAIM (now WMYA) Anderson, SC had a dual
ABC/CBS affiliation until 1979, and at one point
in the '70s carried Smith/Reasoner (ABC) at 6
and Cronkite (CBS) at 6:30. Likewise, WBTW
Florence, SC, a CBS primary/ABC secondary
in the '70s, carried Smith/Reasoner at 6 (later,
when ABC's newscast became "World News Tonight,"
at 6:30), with Cronkite at 7.

 

[newsmark]

I remember seeing TV Guide listings in the early 70s that showed one of the Waco stations airing both.

I can't remember whether it was KWTX/10 (then CBS/ABC) or KCEN/6 (then NBC/ABC).

I'm pretty sure ABC aired first at 5:00, followed by the other network at 5:30.

 

[bpatrick]

In the late '70s KWTX carried ABC at 5, CBS at 5:30.

 

[Ultimajock]

Back around 1962 or '63 Atlanta's Channel 11
(then an ABC affiliate) carried Ron Cochran (ABC)
and Walter Cronkite (CBS, pre-empted on WAGA).

...I recall Tom Snyder (who worked at WLWA/WAII/11 around that time) mentioning that to me sometime in the '90s, now that you bring it up...

 

[TexasTom]

In 1986, Western Montana's KXLF channel 4 (Butte) and KPAX channel 8 (Missoula) still carried two network newscasts. They carried ABC's news at 5 PM and CBS at 6 PM, with their local news sandwiched in between the two national shows. KPAX was (and is) a semi-satellite of KXLF.

 

[Hal Erickson]

In 1965, Milwaukee's CBS affiliate dropped Walter Cronkite's news broadcast to run a local music program. Cronkite was picked up by independent station WUHF-TV, which was also running ABC's nightly newscast (likewise not cleared by the local ABC affiliate). This went on for several months until CBS lowered the boom on its Milwaukee outlet for not carrying the network news (the station, WISN, was notorious for dropping network shows whenever it felt like it--CAPTAIN KANGAROO was likewise a casualty of this policy in the mid-1960s).

 

[wbhist]

In 1965, Milwaukee's CBS affiliate dropped Walter Cronkite's news broadcast to run a local music program. Cronkite was picked up by independent station WUHF-TV, which was also running ABC's nightly newscast (likewise not cleared by the local ABC affiliate). This went on for several months until CBS lowered the boom on its Milwaukee outlet for not carrying the network news (the station, WISN, was notorious for dropping network shows whenever it felt like it--CAPTAIN KANGAROO was likewise a casualty of this policy in the mid-1960s).

The irony in that was that WUHF (now WVTV) was once owned by CBS itself - as WXIX (on Channel 19 before moving to 18), prior to 1958.

 

[Markxxx]

I remember the station in Cheyanne, WY used to run two different networks news. I recall 'cause we stopped over night in Cheyanne on our way to Yellowstone and my parents watched the news and then right after it on came another news cast.

I don't recall what station it was, I don't even know if Cheyanne had more than one station back in the early 70s

 

[azumanga]

I remember the station in Cheyanne, WY used to run two different networks news. I recall 'cause we stopped over night in Cheyanne on our way to Yellowstone and my parents watched the news and then right after it on came another news cast.

I don't recall what station it was, I don't even know if Cheyanne had more than one station back in the early 70s

KFBC (now KGWN) was the only station in Cheyenne until around 1987, when KKTU (now KWCK) went on the air.

 

[Ultimajock]

In 1965, Milwaukee's CBS affiliate dropped Walter Cronkite's news broadcast to run a local music program. Cronkite was picked up by independent station WUHF-TV, which was also running ABC's nightly newscast (likewise not cleared by the local ABC affiliate). This went on for several months until CBS lowered the boom on its Milwaukee outlet for not carrying the network news (the station, WISN, was notorious for dropping network shows whenever it felt like it--CAPTAIN KANGAROO was likewise a casualty of this policy in the mid-1960s).

The irony in that was that WUHF (now WVTV) was once owned by CBS itself - as WXIX (on Channel 19 before moving to 18), prior to 1958.

...and, before that, the station was WOKY-TV/19, an ABC and Du Mont affiliate -- whose networks were taken from it by WTVW/12 (the first incarnation of WISN-TV), leading directly to the CBS purchase of WOKY-TV in the first place...

 

[Bluenoser]

In the late 80s/early 90s, WLUC Marquette ran CBS and NBC's news back to back at 6:30/5:30 CT. By the fall of '92, the CBS newscast had been replaced by ABC World News Tonight, after WJMN switched from ABC to CBS when they became a CBS O&O.