CNN's radio network goes off the air Apr. 1 after over 25 years of operation, as its distributor Dial Global expands NBC Radio News from its 16 hours of one-minute hourly newscasts to a round-the-clock service featuring all of the news department's stars, save the MSNBC prime time hosts (although DG happens to syndicate Ed Schultz):
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/103029/dial-global-to-offer-nbc-news-radio-network-drops- Dial Global's predecessor, Westwood One, had been offering the skeleton NBC service since 2003--they bought NBC Radio in 1987 after GE bought NBC and divested its radio interests, but in the last years, the hourly newscasts were exactly the same as co-owned Mutual newscasts, with the only difference being the NBC chimes and the anchor's recorded "NBC Radio News" intro while the Mutual sounder and a recorded "Mutual News" intro aired on Mutual stations (both the original NBC Radio Network and Mutual closed down in 1999). Although initially Dial Global will be switching CNN affils (which include some non-commercial LPFMs) to their CBS Radio service (which Westwood One became the official distributor after the CBS/Infinity Broadcasting merger), one assumes that they'll be pushing NBC to the stations hard, although I imagine that a lot of right-wing talk stations will balk. DG also syndicates CNBC's radio service and a radio service from Rupert Murdoch's MarketWatch (Murdoch's Fox News and Fox Sports nets are distributed by Clear Channel's Premiere) and the radio version of "Meet the Press." Outside of news, they also syndicate a daily highlight package for radio from both Leno and Fallon (and, it should be said, Letterman). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
