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NBC News Radio----UGH!

blue67ccm

blue67ccm

CNN Radio never had this problem.

Tonight, at 6pm Eastern, the NBC News Radio TOH feed began some 15 seconds late. Then, at :01 after, the newscast RESTARTED from the beginning stinger! We heard the news a second time.

The commercials from :02 to :04 after ran perfectly, of course. :D

This is not the first time I've heard NBC News Radio do this. Is Dial Global running this operation on cruise control or something? It's not impressive to have Lester Holt anchor your newscast if you can't even air it correctly.

CBS, ABC, and Fox News have nothing to worry about.
 
Some other media franchise needs to buy NBC News Radio from Dial Global and make it a true 24/7
all-news service before it's too late. Come on, Just 1 (or2) minutes of news on the hour?! Please!
That's for people with very short attention spans!
 
Radio1360 said:
Some other media franchise needs to buy NBC News Radio from Dial Global and make it a true 24/7
all-news service before it's too late. Come on, Just 1 (or2) minutes of news on the hour?! Please!
That's for people with very short attention spans!
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You Mean Comcast itself? WOw bring back the 1970's with NBC NIS to compete against ARNN News of Today. But Can KLIV NBC Radio Afilliate of San Jose handle this?
 
It honestly sounds like one of those deals where the TV guys were brought together and told, "Hey, you're going to be doing anchoring on the new NBC News Radio"., and purely for the cross-promotional value.

The hour before Holt got a plug in for Nightly News near the end of a two-minute newser that actually aired correctly. If I'm a station owner, I don't want that there. He's asking my audience to leave me.

Putting on some "name" voices to anchor newscasts will not mask the huge problems at NBC, mainly:

1) technical issues (aforementioned)
2) bias issues (just like the Fox News Radio affiliates deal with)
3) very little production value or resources that seem to be specifically for radio.

About every "correspondent" I hear seems to be a TV reporter.

Man, these guys could learn a thing, or two, or a thousand, from CBS Radio....
 
Unfortunately, it's a pathetic shell of what a great radio network once was. I, too, have heard some gaffes and the audio quality has left a lot to be desired. The old guard from NBC of yore must be turning over in their graves. Really sad.
 
blue67ccm said:
CNN Radio never had this problem.

Tonight, at 6pm Eastern, the NBC News Radio TOH feed began some 15 seconds late. Then, at :01 after, the newscast RESTARTED from the beginning stinger! We heard the news a second time.

The commercials from :02 to :04 after ran perfectly, of course. :D

This is not the first time I've heard NBC News Radio do this. Is Dial Global running this operation on cruise control or something? It's not impressive to have Lester Holt anchor your newscast if you can't even air it correctly.

CBS, ABC, and Fox News have nothing to worry about.
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But wait Dial GLobal Owns CBS Radio News for Now too an the CBS Division is good.
 
recto101 said:
But wait Dial GLobal Owns CBS Radio News for Now too an the CBS Division is good.
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Dial Global does NOT own CBS Radio News. CBS owns it. Dial Global is the syndicator, an entity that handles the distribution of the network.
 
Radio1360 said:
Some other media franchise needs to buy NBC News Radio from Dial Global and make it a true 24/7
all-news service before it's too late. Come on, Just 1 (or2) minutes of news on the hour?! Please!
That's for people with very short attention spans!
Click to expand...

I don't think you realize how expensive of an endeavor that would be.

A radio news network requires more than a few anchors. It needs tape (err, audio) producers. It needs copy editors. It needs assignment managers. It needs field correspondents. It needs special coverage producers. Let's not forget about a 24/7 tech ops staff that can fix any headache or catastrophe that could take the network down at 2:00 a.m.

There must absolutely by a DC staff if you base your main operations somewhere else (NYC). You need people around the country. You really should have people outside the country as well.

You need technology. You need the studios and the workspace, but you need computers. You need field gear. You need field connectivity.

That's a lot of capital to invest... unless you have a very large affiliate commitment from the outset. DG/NBC doesn't. And it likely won't. Their existing affiliates are few and tend to be third, fourth or even fifth tier stations in the market. NBC News Radio is a spot vehicle for DG, and a promotional vehicle/extra revenue building for NBC.
 
. . . And CBS, unfortunately, has recently lost several long-time affiliates that are owned by Cumulus. Word came down from high a couple of months ago that all Cumulus stations that had been affiliated with other networks were now to be affiliated with ABC. Our local CBS station here in Maine, WDEA in Ellsworth had been with the network since the '60s. Same with WKNY in Kingston, N.Y., which joined CBS in the 1930s(!).
 
NewsStud said:
Radio1360 said:
Some other media franchise needs to buy NBC News Radio from Dial Global and make it a true 24/7
all-news service before it's too late. Come on, Just 1 (or2) minutes of news on the hour?! Please!
That's for people with very short attention spans!
Click to expand...

I don't think you realize how expensive of an endeavor that would be.

A radio news network requires more than a few anchors. It needs tape (err, audio) producers. It needs copy editors. It needs assignment managers. It needs field correspondents. It needs special coverage producers. Let's not forget about a 24/7 tech ops staff that can fix any headache or catastrophe that could take the network down at 2:00 a.m.

There must absolutely by a DC staff if you base your main operations somewhere else (NYC). You need people around the country. You really should have people outside the country as well.

You need technology. You need the studios and the workspace, but you need computers. You need field gear. You need field connectivity.

That's a lot of capital to invest... unless you have a very large affiliate commitment from the outset. DG/NBC doesn't. And it likely won't. Their existing affiliates are few and tend to be third, fourth or even fifth tier stations in the market. NBC News Radio is a spot vehicle for DG, and a promotional vehicle/extra revenue building for NBC.
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Wait didn't NBC fail in the All-News operation in the 1970's because I know in some Markets like San Francisco NBC had KNAI 99.7 FM for all news but the problem was that KCBS-AM and KGO-AM Killed them off in the ratings when it came to news. Also in big cities there was a bigger demand for local content in their all-news cycles or News/Talk. If ARNN, Now Clear Channel has a feed for 24/7 News for Iheart radio and NBC All-News radio Network. How can they convince Big cities to join them when Cumulus, CBS and Hubbard has a grip for all-news in big cities.
 
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