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Old CNN Headline News Stations

charlestondxman said:
We also had an AM simulcast here of Headline News on a couple stations. 910 AM (WTMZ) ran it for a little bit, along with 1450 AM WQNT, who did it for several years (starting around 2000 or so) They supplemented it with local simulcasts of the NBC's newscasts at 5 and 5:30.
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St. Louis had the same. It was around 1993 when KUSA/550 dropped country for a Headline News simulcast. New owners changed the call letters back to KSD and Headline News was supplemented by local and NBC news simulcasts from KSDK-TV. Some talk shows were also sprinkled in before the format was scrapped in favor of standards.
 
KKNW-1150 Seattle used to be CNN Headline News for a few years in the early 00s (after flipping from R&B KSRB). Then went to alternative talk.
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EARLY on, in Seattle KING-5 carried CNN Headline News (this was around 1983). They had NBC News Overnight like most of the affiliates did, from 1:30-2:30AM each night until it was cancelled in 1983. After cancellation, it was replaced with CNN news.

Also adding on to KIMA Yakima, were they the LAST over-the-air affiliate of Headline News? I have a TV Guide showing them airing Headline News at noon in 2002! They had run a local newscast there around 2000, and then went back to CNN-HN it seems like.
And by the way, were they straight cable simulcasts, or was this a completely different broadcast than what was on cable?
 
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I remember two California radio stations that went all-news with CNN2 / CNNHN* in the early 1980s ... KGB/1360 in San Diego, which adopted the calls KCNN, and 1490/KDB Santa Barbara. Neither stayed with it for more than a couple of years, and both did their local insert at :25/:55, just like the cable television systems.

* - The network did start out as CNN2 but changed to "CNN Headline News" specifically because "CNN2" sounded odd on the radio stations carrying the audio.
 
Wright County Guy said:
Yep. KMSP ran it at 12:30pm weekdays (presumably the news hungry watched WCCO's Noon Report and flipped over at 12:30). KXLI/41 (St. Cloud) also did at 10pm on weekends.
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I also think KMSP ran it 9:00before the local news(or 9:30 PM after the local news). That gave then an hour long news block at 9 PM which they have to this day
 
In Dallas, WFAA/8 ran it overnight, especially on weekends.

For a short time in the mid-80s, KRLD/33 (now KDAF) ran it at 7:30 after their 7 PM news.

IIRC, CNN had a rule that Headline News could run a maximum of two hours per day in any market (not per station).
 
Baltimore's WMAR channel 2 aired CNN2 ( Headline News ) during the overnight back in 1982 maybe 1983 however I don't remember if WMAR would air local news segments during the show. Looking back I don't think any TV station in Washington DC aired CNN Headline News but there was a small AM station in Northern Virginia who did simulcast the feed for a few years back in the early 90s.
 
crainbebo said:
I was able to find one of the over-the-air broadcasts of CNN Headline News on a VHS tape at an estate sale not that long ago. It was taped off KIMA Yakima on 12/7/1997...they did not have weekend news. Notice that they cut out the national Headline News commercials and replaced them with local ads and PSAs.
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KNDO was a partner of Headline News as well. On the local cut ins on TCI they would produce the edition. I remember from the big snow fall of 1995 or so we were let out of school early and KNDO was on Headline News with a report
 
I don't remember any TV stations in or around Columbus, Ohio carrying Headline News. They may have, but I don't remember.
I do remember that WLOH-AM (1320) in Lancaster, Ohio carried Headline News 24/7 for some time in the early 1990s. I don't know the exact dates off hand.
I was a big fan of Headline News in those days. Not at all a fan of what it has become.
 
That was back when KNDO had their studios on S 24th on the opposite side of KAPP. Both are gone now. KNDO just relays everything out of Tri-Cities with a tiny office and one reporter in Downtown Yakima.
Wasn't that big snowfall in 1996? That's the one that dumped something like 2-3 feet on Yakima, and CLOSED (yes, closed) schools! And this isn't hyped-up Seattle!
 
crainbebo said:
That was back when KNDO had their studios on S 24th on the opposite side of KAPP. Both are gone now. KNDO just relays everything out of Tri-Cities with a tiny office and one reporter in Downtown Yakima.
Wasn't that big snowfall in 1996? That's the one that dumped something like 2-3 feet on Yakima, and CLOSED (yes, closed) schools! And this isn't hyped-up Seattle!
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The only big snow I can remember in Tri-Cities was December 1992-January 1993. Not to say there wasn't a bigger event in Yakima in '96!

As for Headline News, I toured the CNN studios in Atlanta in the 90's. Very impressive. Headline news was just a hallway away from the main CNN newsroom set. Not sure of the set-up today, but back then Headline News was just that, a quicker recap of the day's news in 30 minute segments, not anything like what they are doing today.
 
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WSVN used to air CNN Headline News here on weekends.
 
Unregistered said:
I have no idea what stations were affiliates of the CNN Headline News (originating from the Headline News cable channel), besides that cable channel of the same name (now HLN). I only know that WTBS-TV in Atlanta is one of them. For Tampa, was Headline News on the Big 3 (8, 10, 13), on Capital Cities startup WFTS-TV Channel 28 (just started broadcasting for the first time, now owned by Scripps and an ABC station), or WTOG-TV 44? Anyways, what was your Headline News Station in your city?
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Here in the Denver area, it was ABC affiliate KBTV 9 (Now KUSA 9 & an NBC affiliate) the whole time (The station bumped ABC News This Morning when it debuted by sticking with the CNN offering)

After Headline News, the station aired reruns of (Of all shows) The Lone Ranger @ 6:00 AM (If they were trying to appeal to kids at THIS hour ON A SCHOOL DAY, it was likely nothing short of a mitigated ratings disaster as the show likely got SLAUGHTERED by KWGN 2 & its morning cartoon lineup)

Cheers & 73 :)
 
umfan said:
A great idea for a subchannel would be for CNN to run the classic format of Headline News and offer it for such retransmission. Stations could have another format during the day and carry that overnight. Might reestablish CNN as something useful.
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Thing is most stations with news operations would just assume either do something like that at the local level (ALA NWCN) OR take HLN for national & world news BUT add hourly local newsbreaks like what the cable news networks do during the overnight hours & local stations do with the weather on their weather subs

Cheers & 73 :)
 
I was the one that started this page, by the way (when Anonymous accounts was still a thing :) ), I still don't know about Tampa's affiliate, but considering KTVU had Headline News, since they are owned by Cox (at the time), maybe WFTV in Orlando had them too, I guess?:confused:
 
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