> Radio was on the all new bandwagon long before CNN. The old
> Westinghouse Broadcasting was one of the earliest proponents
> ("..give us 20 minutes and we'll give you the world.."} It
> was a wheel similar to what CNN used to do on Headline News.
> NBC had a 24/7 network to supply stations that wanted to go
> all news back in the early 70's. I beleive it was called NIS
> (News and Information Service). Cameron Swayze (John's son)
> was a main anchor. I am sure others can pipe in with other
> details but this is the best I can offer up right now.
>
> Rick
>
I grew up with WINS news (I think it was "You give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world.") in New York and that was looong before CNN came into existence.
This is from Wikipedia:
WINS (AM), known on-air as "1010 WINS", is an all-news radio station in New York City at 1010 kHz, owned by Infinity Broadcasting.
The station first went on the air as WGBS in 1924, named after and broadcasting from its owner, Gimbel's department store. It was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1932, and by 1943 had adopted its present callsign (named after Hearst's International News Service) and frequency.
In 1954 under owner Crosley Broadcasting WINS became one of the first stations to play rock and roll, and featured famous and influential disk jockeys such as Alan Freed and Murray (the K) Kaufman.
In 1965 under owner Westinghouse it changed format, becoming one of the first all-news stations in the United States. As with other Westinghouse-owned news stations, WINS had a distinctive teletype sound effect playing in the background (some other stations later dropped this, but WINS has kept it) and the slogan, "You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
WINS has consistently ranked as one of the highest-rated stations in the New York City area, usually beating its all-news competitor WCBS-AM (although both are now owned by Infinity).
