[BC] End of an Era...

[Bailey, Scott]

My station doesn't have a "news staff" working out of the building.  I
have my local news contracted out to a company called Metro Networks,
owned by Westwood One.  They get our local paper there each day, make a
few calls and do my newscast "live" in AM drive and at 12 noon.  All for
barter!  You can't be that. We have an ISDN line between us and them.
Having a news staff of just one at a small AM station is costly!

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Blake Bowers
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:58 AM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] End of an Era...

While it is true that most stations don't have a dedicated
news staff anymore, I have always found it humorous
to hear the newspaper rattling as the news was being read
on a local outlet.....

The advent of trunking communications, or even digital should
have very little impact on tracking their communications -
trunking scanners have been out for 6-7 years now, and digital
scanners for a few years now.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Smith W4KNX" <paul at amtower.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:51 AM
Subject: RE: [BC] End of an Era...


> What you have today is almost every little govt. agency has a Public
> Information Officer.  They either post to internet sites what is news
or 
> fax
> it to you.  Most stations dont have news departments anylonger either.
So
> government has gotten bloated, radio has gotten leaner.  (Would you
expect
> anything less?)  I can log on here and look at all the traffic cameras
in
> the Tampa area, and look at all the police reports from the various 
> agencies
> in the area.  Also, many agencies use either trunked communication 
> systems,
> or digital, so it's almost impossible to track them via scanner.
>
> Paul Smith
> Sarasota, FL
>




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