[BC] All News Format (was Country Music plight in top towns)

[Bailey, Scott]

Yes, that's true, but if the newspapers ever get their way of cross
ownership, you better bet that companies like Gannett will do it.

-----Original Message-----
From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Robert Meuser
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:35 PM
To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [BC] Country Music plight in top towns


All news is one of the most expensive formats to produce. That is why it

is not usually found in smaller markets.


Bailey, Scott wrote:

>That would make a great FM format in Nashville. The lowest rated FM
>station in Arbs in Nashville is WRLT-FM. I like their music format
>(AAA), but it doesn't have, and has never done good. Their format
>doesn't gear to the masses of this area, especially people in the
>suburban areas. That station would be best off going to an all news
>format.
>An all news format like WINS-AM in NYC would be a winner here in
>Nashville, and other markets.
>
>Scott
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net
>[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Xen Scott
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:05 AM
>To: Broadcasters' Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [BC] Country Music plight in top towns
>
>At 08:19 AM 09/27/2006 -0400, Cornelius wrote:
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>>My position since the dawn of satellite radio - and in particular, the

>>terrestrial repeater quagmire was/is this: Instead of fighting
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>Satellite 
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>>Radio, radio should have found a way to get ONTO the terrestrial
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>repeater 
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>>system and become one of the many offerings on XM and Sirius.
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>I would love to hear an all-news format on satellite radio, but not
just
>
>the audio from
>a cable network.  The problem with using the audio from a cable TV
>network 
>is that some
>information is conveyed visually, such as in a graphic.  That
>information 
>never gets to the
>audio-only consumer.  Ideally, XM or Sirius would offer one or more of
>the 
>major market
>all-news radio stations.
>
>Now I'm just a retired TV tech, but isn't there a big contractual
>problem 
>with putting
>over-the-air radio stations on XM and Sirius?  Don't most nationally 
>distributed network
>programs prohibit redistribution beyond the local market of the client 
>radio station?
>Most all-news stations use radio program network sources.  A case in
>point 
>would be
>WCBS-AM.  Would the CBS Radio Network permit re-transmission of their 
>top-of-the-hour
>news feed?
>
>If over-the-air re-transmission of local radio were limited to that 
>station's market,
>wouldn't that consume a lot of pipeline bandwidth?  I know there is the

>example of
>local TV being carried in their local market via Directv or Dish
>Network, 
>but the technical
>compromise in the form of significant compression makes the stations 
>difficult to watch.
>Do XM and Sirius even have the bandwidth to offer local radio into
local
>
>markets?
>
>Xen Scott
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