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Thoughts on WCBS newsradio 880

DToTheJ said:
Kudos for continuing news online during Yankees games!
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That's not choice. That's contractual.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
I enjoy the CBS Network news at the top of the hour. It is well written and in five minutes gives you a comprehensive summary of world and national news. I don't like how WCBS only carries the first two minutes of the newscast. They should carry the full 5 min. I don't think PPM would be too compromised if the local news began at :05 instead of :03. Both KCBS and WBBM carry the full cast and look at their numbers.
 
radio124 said:
I enjoy the CBS Network news at the top of the hour. It is well written and in five minutes gives you a comprehensive summary of world and national news. I don't like how WCBS only carries the first two minutes of the newscast. They should carry the full 5 min. I don't think PPM would be too compromised if the local news began at :05 instead of :03. Both KCBS and WBBM carry the full cast and look at their numbers.
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If you look at a small AM station which is WKNY, they carries TOH newscast from CBS News. It runs a good 5 minutes of world and national events as well as local stuff. That is one in the morning with Warren Lawrence and some people and then the first 3 minutes of CBS TOH News with local on weekdays and weather on weekends with satellite syndicated music. That might be a good thing.

DToTheJ said:
Kudos for continuing news online during Yankees games!
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The Yankees can also be heard on WKXP/WZAD's "The Wolf" during the baseball season when it is still a country music station which is also Cumulus' flagship to Yankee baseball where they simulcasting the games from WCBS-AM which is on FM, but it sounded a lot clearer when it is heard on CBS-FM's HD3 channel.
 
@radio124... WCBS does run the full CBS newscast sometimes, when there isn't too much local news. I think their concern is to get a few local stories in before they have to go to Traffic & Weather Together at :08. If you take the national news till :05 and the format calls for a one-minute commercial just before the traffic, that leaves only a two minute window for the first segment of local news.

At least WCBS is better than other nearby CBS-owned stations: WPHT Philadelphia and WTIC Hartford. Those stations are so concerned with getting their local news on, and plenty of commercials before going to a syndicated show at :08, they omit CBS Network News except late nights and some weekend hours. During their all-news format, CBS-owned WBZ Boston also omits CBS News at the top of the hour. WBZ only runs it overnights.

Gregg
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I suppose stations like WPHT and WTIC don't have the luxury of being an all-news station like WCBS-AM is - as you said, a lot of 'PHT and 'TIC's time is spoken for.
 
DToTheJ said:
I suppose stations like WPHT and WTIC don't have the luxury of being an all-news station like WCBS-AM is - as you said, a lot of 'PHT and 'TIC's time is spoken for.
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WPHT was a CBS all-news station for a number of years under the calls of WCAU.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
Gregg said:
@radio124... WCBS does run the full CBS newscast sometimes, when there isn't too much local news. I think their concern is to get a few local stories in before they have to go to Traffic & Weather Together at :08. If you take the national news till :05 and the format calls for a one-minute commercial just before the traffic, that leaves only a two minute window for the first segment of local news.

At least WCBS is better than other nearby CBS-owned stations: WPHT Philadelphia and WTIC Hartford. Those stations are so concerned with getting their local news on, and plenty of commercials before going to a syndicated show at :08, they omit CBS Network News except late nights and some weekend hours. During their all-news format, CBS-owned WBZ Boston also omits CBS News at the top of the hour. WBZ only runs it overnights.

Gregg
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Why should WPHT focus on news? CBS already owns KYW.
 
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