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Post by commanderlumpy on Mar 7, 2012 12:00:24 GMT -5
Some interesting news has developed in radio. NBC is going to carry a 24/7 news format. This includes top of the hour news, every 15 and half hour. This will replace CNN radio news. I wonder what K-talk will do about this. I talked to someone at K-talk yesterday. They were unsure what top of the hour news they would carry beginning April first. It will also be interesting to see what 1510 will do. They are a CNN affiliate. I wonder if they will play the same top of the hour news jingle from the late 80’s to the early 90’s.
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Post by JamesAnderson on Mar 8, 2012 22:34:12 GMT -5
Most don't remember when this was tried 36 years ago, but NBC in 1976 started the 'News and Information Service' or something like that, and it launched in a number of markets. However, within a year and a half, the format was dead.
Did it nearly the same way too, but I think the station clocks were :00, :20, and :40 for national news, and if I recall they had some local slots so local stations could run what they had as well. But it could have been the :00, :15, :30, and :45 time slots for top headlines you state this one would have.
And yes even then, there were some big-name TV talent doing shifts on that earlier one as well.
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