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When Did Each All-News Station Begin?

powers said:
I believe the all-Beatles format came immediately after the demise of the news format.
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Thanks. Saul changed formats on 1260 so often back then, I can no longer remember what the order was. (There was also the all-Broadway showtunes format, Music Of Your Life, and jazz ... all in the first ten years after he bought it from Buckley.)
 
vchimpanzee said:
Wikipedia says it did, but doesn't give a source.

I do know at the time WSOC-TV was an NBC affiliate and I think WSOC-AM was too.

I don't have access to the Charlotte Observer archives for that era. In the next few weeks I will go to a library that does.
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You can find the Charlotte Observer on Newspapers.com. And thousands of other papers, too.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I tried, but all I got were really old ones.
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For most of the newspapers on newspapers.com, you have to be a subscriber to have access to newer editions (if they're available). I just looked, and editions of the Charlotte Observer are available through this year. Only subscribers have access to editions that are from 1924 or later.
 
Mark Roberts said:
For most of the newspapers on newspapers.com, you have to be a subscriber to have access to newer editions (if they're available). I just looked, and editions of the Charlotte Observer are available through this year. Only subscribers have access to editions that are from 1924 or later.
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I am a subscriber as a Wikipedia editor, but they apparently added more recent Observers since I first checked.
 
Mark Roberts said:
For most of the newspapers on newspapers.com, you have to be a subscriber to have access to newer editions (if they're available). I just looked, and editions of the Charlotte Observer are available through this year. Only subscribers have access to editions that are from 1924 or later.
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You might want to look at that again.
 
Gregg. said:
Yes, there was that one as well. According to Wikipedia, 1260 Los Angeles had the KNNS (K-News) call letters from 1995 to 1997. Trimulcast with 540 KNNZ Costa Mesa and 540 XESURF Tijuana. I've added that to my list of Past All-News Stations.
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Wasn't there another "K-News" in the early 1980s? The old KEZY-1190 out of Orange County took on an all-news format roughly between April 1983 and January 1984, using the call "KNWS".
 
semoochie said:
You might want to look at that again.
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If you're addressing me: I am a newspapers.com subscriber and I was relaying what the site was showing me. It clearly indicates which years are subscription-only. I personally couldn't care less about much of anything in North Carolina; I was just trying to be helpful here.
 
Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Here are some of the old KFWB promos over the years when they were all news.
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I always liked KFWB better than KNX. Their "hot clock" was much easier to follow, even as a listener.

Plus, no one who ever spent any decent amount of time listening can still hear the TOH legal ID sequence in their head:

"The news watch never stops, on KFWB, Los Angeles ... Group W, a Westinghouse Broadcasting station. KFWB News Time, ten o'clock." (and into that memorable jingle ... "KFWB, News 98" using the same melody as they had when they were "Channel 98" as a top-40 station) ... "All news, all day, this is KFWB News 98 ... you give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
 
WRIT 1340 Milwaukee tried All-News with NIS starting towards the end of '75 after the Top 40 format fizzled out. It ran for 2-ish years, then they went country as WBCS.
 
KenoGuy said:
WRIT 1340 Milwaukee tried All-News with NIS starting towards the end of '75 after the Top 40 format fizzled out. It ran for 2-ish years, then they went country as WBCS.
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NIS itself only lasted two-ish years ... June 18, 1975 to May 29, 1977.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I always liked KFWB better than KNX. Their "hot clock" was much easier to follow, even as a listener.

Plus, no one who ever spent any decent amount of time listening can still hear the TOH legal ID sequence in their head:

"The news watch never stops, on KFWB, Los Angeles ... Group W, a Westinghouse Broadcasting station. KFWB News Time, ten o'clock." (and into that memorable jingle ... "KFWB, News 98" using the same melody as they had when they were "Channel 98" as a top-40 station) ... "All news, all day, this is KFWB News 98 ... you give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
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My opinion: when the Northridge quake struck and I was able to hammer my way out of my apartment and get in the car to go to KKHJ, the first thing I did was put on KFWB.

What I most disliked about KNX: the general manager editorials.
 
CentralFL said:
1380 AM in NYC tried a Spanish all news format a while back, but it didn't last long. Not sure what the call letters were
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At one point, San Juan, PR, had 4 all news networks, originating at WUNO (NotiUno), WKAQ (Radio Reloj), WAPA and Radio Isla that went from 630 to 1320 when WUNO took 630 and moved the facility. WIAC 740 also was briefly mostly or all news.

Today, all are talk stations. None do all news.

The two principal ones (both of which I have worked with) are WKAQ and WUNO and they are "national" networks with several other AM stations each as well as some FM translators.
 
DavidEduardo said:
My opinion: when the Northridge quake struck and I was able to hammer my way out of my apartment and get in the car to go to KKHJ, the first thing I did was put on KFWB.
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You wouldn't have had trouble finding them. I was listening and at the TOH they did legal I.D.s for all the stations they were allowing to simulcast their earthquake coverage. I don't remember all of them, but I remember KTWV and KZLA being on the list.
DavidEduardo said:
What I most disliked about KNX: the general manager editorials.
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Those didn't bother me as much as that feature they ran every morning with that "positive attitude" host.
 
K.M. Richards said:
You wouldn't have had trouble finding them. I was listening and at the TOH they did legal I.D.s for all the stations they were allowing to simulcast their earthquake coverage. I don't remember all of them, but I remember KTWV and KZLA being on the list.
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They did a great job. We contacted them and got permission to use their content translated to Spanish.
K.M. Richards said:
Those didn't bother me as much as that feature they ran every morning with that "positive attitude" host.
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That one was, well, I can only think of a Spanish word to describe it, "vomitivo".

As that TV Sergeant would say, "Just the facts, ma'am." If it was not news, it did not belong.
 

Here is one that was in someway was expected WCBS-AM to become WHSQ-AM and to flip into Sports/talk with ESPN affiliation. Yes it happened mainly on Audacys recent campaign to promote WINS-AM and WINS-FM as the flagship stations for Audacy All News. In a way this is like when KFWB Los Angeles ended their All News format because of the former owners CBS bought KCAL-TV and to emphasize KNX News given that 1070 AM is a 50kw signal for the LA Area.
 


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