I was a bit confused. WBOS Bloomberg 92.9 is carrying ABC News on the hour. When I switched to Bloomberg on Sirius XM to see if it was the same or if WBOS was just inserting this I was surprised to hear CBS News on the hour on Bloomberg. Anyone know why WBOS would go with ABC instead of Bloomberg’s coverage of CBS?
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Network News on the Hour on Bloomberg 92.9
- Thread starter dhoule
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Exactly this - WBZ is still the CBS affiliate in the market, even though it only runs the hourly news overnight.
WATD 95.9 is an affiliate too I believe. My friend Gary Leavitt does a 7pm Tue show
there and at times CBS news runs TOH.
Wiki entry for WATD:
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there and at times CBS news runs TOH.
Wiki entry for WATD:
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| Affiliations | CBS News Radio |
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Thank you! That make sense!
Wasn’t the original “deal” that 880AM would continue to carry the TOH CBS News Radio network casts with the ESPN programming?
I thought I heard this when WCBS was canning the all-news format.
No, that was a message board post that never had any basis in reality.
How would it even have worked with the ESPN clock?
Apparently different Bloomberg stations have different news networks, depending on their local market. Last I heard, WDCH 99.1 in Washington-Baltimore carries iHeart's 24/7 News on the hour a few times on weekdays and most of the weekend. WBBR NYC and the Sirius XM channel run CBS News. And as said above, WBOS Boston runs ABC News.
GOOD! I don't want to see network radio news die off (I'm looking at you, NBC). If enough stations want network news feeds at TOH, hopefully the networks will be less inclined to make cuts. Besides, in most markets, I'd assume, were it not for network news on the radio, there'd probably be little to no news on local radio (NPR stations, notwithstanding).
Bloomberg doesn’t offer a top-of-hour network newscast, it’s up to the affiliates to decide what they want to put there.
I imagine SiriusXM went with CBS News Radio rather than them carrying a straight feed of WBBR. I don’t recall ever hearing anything NY-specific on the SXM channel.
Doesn’t SXM have a wide variety of TOH network newscasts across their talk channels?
I imagine SiriusXM went with CBS News Radio rather than them carrying a straight feed of WBBR. I don’t recall ever hearing anything NY-specific on the SXM channel.
Doesn’t SXM have a wide variety of TOH network newscasts across their talk channels?
Did they just start carrying ABC nx?
I just happened to notice it yesterday ("Hmmm, ABC? Since when?"), and now I see someone else asking the same question, the same day (I don`t remember who they were using before).
I just happened to notice it yesterday ("Hmmm, ABC? Since when?"), and now I see someone else asking the same question, the same day (I don`t remember who they were using before).
It was just all Bloomberg all the time before
It may have seemed that way. Most of the day on weekdays, there is no break for network news at the top of the hour. Most Bloomberg shows take up the entire hour during the day on weekdays. It's only in the evening on weekdays that there is an occasional break for news. It's on weekends that most hours break for news. If you only listen during the day on weekdays, you'd think Bloomberg doesn't run another network's newscasts.
For a while, Bloomberg stations used Westwood One News. That network existed from 2015 to 2020. It was a "white label" service, meaning none of the anchors ever said what network they were on. When Westwood One went away, Bloomberg switched to iHeart news. That used to be called NBC News, now it's known as 24/7 News. Again, Bloomberg took the "white label" version where the anchors never say the name of the network.
So from 2015 to this fall, you may not have even realized it was a network newscast you were listening to. You may have assumed it was all Bloomberg product since these newscasts are "white label."
It was only this fall that 1130 WBBR in New York decided to pick up CBS News with the end of WCBS in August. That also prompted Bloomberg Sirius Channel 121 to switch to CBS News. And in Boston, 92.9 WBOS has gone with ABC News, since WBZ has the rights to CBS News. The other Bloomberg station, 99.1 WDCH Washington-Baltimore, has remained an iHeart 24/7 News affiliate.
Ah, okay, I`ve just tuned in sometimes midday Sundays, while out in the car, with their Sunday morning GasBag replays, and noted the generic nxcasts! 😁
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