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For the television series NewsRadio, see NewsRadio. NewsRadio is an American sitcom, originally broadcast from 1995 to 1999 on NBC.

All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news. This article is about Broadcast radio, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. News is any new information or information on Current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or Word of mouth

All-news radio is available in both local and syndicated forms, and is carried in some form on both major US satellite radio networks. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through A satellite radio or subscription radio (SR is a Digital radio signal that is broadcast by a Communications satellite, which covers a much wider geographical Some all-news stations, like KYW and WCBS, carry sports, and all-news stations may occasionally carry public affairs programs, simulcasts of TV news magazine or political affairs shows like 60 Minutes and Face the Nation. KYW is a class A AM Radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. WCBS (880 kHz often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880", is a Radio station in New York City. Not to be confused with the BBC news magazine program Sixty Minutes (TV series. Face the Nation is an American Sunday-morning political interview show which premiered on the CBS Television network on Some former all news stations, like KNX and WBZ, now run talk radio programs on weekends and during off peak hours. KNX (1070 kHz is an all-news radio station in Los Angeles California, USA WBZ is the callsign for an AM Radio station in Boston Massachusetts which is owned by CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues Most of these stations are owned by CBS Radio, and therefore are affiliated with the CBS radio network. This article is about the radio group for the radio network see CBS Radio Network. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network.

Many stations brand themselves Newsradio but only run continuous news during the morning and afternoon drive times. Drive time is Prime time for Radio Broadcasting. It consists of the morning hours when listeners wake up get ready and/or head to work or school and These stations are properly labeled as "news/talk" talk radio stations. Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues Also, some National Public Radio stations identify themselves as News and Information stations, which means that in addition to running the NPR news magazines like Morning Edition and All Things Considered, they run other information programs such as Day to Day, Talk of the Nation, and the BBC World Service. Morning Edition is an American Radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR All Things Considered (ATC is a news radio program in the United States broadcast on the National Public Radio network Day to Day (D2D is a one-hour weekday American radio Newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio (NPR and produced by NPR in collaboration Talk of the Nation is a Talk radio program based in the United States, produced by National Public Radio, and is broadcast nationally from 2

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History

According to a Wikipedia site for 1100 KFAX radio in San Francisco, Calif. , what had been KJBS radio changed to KFAX in late 1959 when the station changed formats from music, news, and sports, to become the nation's first all-news radio station. However, this experiment proved unsuccessful.

Broadcasting pioneer Arthur W. Arundel is credited with creating the first 24-hour All News station, radio or television, in the United States in January 1961 on his owned and operated WAVA in Washington. Arthur W (Nick Arundel, a Harvard graduate and US Marine Corps combat officer with Purple Hearts in the Korean and Vietnam Wars covered Washington as a correspondent for CBS News Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. WAVA-AM and WAVA-FM are Religious formatted broadcast Radio stations Both stations are licensed to Arlington Virginia and serve Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The station’s success was largely driven by a Nation’s Capital audience then riveted to news of the Vietnam War and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Arundel helped other stations in New York and Chicago also to convert to his All News All the Time format and then met direct competition from Washington Post-owned WTOP in 1964. The City of New York Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar.

Another early prototypical all-news format was in use by WABC-FM in New York during the 114-day newspaper strike which lasted from December 8, 1962 to March 31, 1963. WPLJ (955 FM) is a Radio station in New York City. WPLJ is the flagship FM station of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The format only lasted as long as the strike, though, and reverted to its regular format of Broadway show tunes and simulcasting of its AM sister station after the strike ended. A show tune is a Popular song originally written as part of the score of a "show" (or stage musical, especially if the piece in question has become Simulcast is a Portmanteau of " simul taneous broad' cast' " and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one WABC (770 kHz known as "NewsTalkRadio 77" is a radio station in New York City.

Radio programmer Gordon McLendon, who has been credited with pioneering top 40, background music and telephone talk formats, is generally acknowledged to have put the first all-news format on the air. Gordon Barton McLendon ( June 8, 1921 in Paris Texas – September 14, 1986) is widely credited for perfecting with great commercial It happened in the 1960s on XETRA, a station licensed to Tijuana, Mexico, that could be heard as far away as Los Angeles, and also on WNUS in Chicago. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 XEWW-AM are the call letters of a border-blaster radio station licensed to the Tijuana / Rosarito area of Baja California, Mexico, WGRB, 1390 AM, is a Radio station in Chicago owned by Clear Channel Communications.

Its format, which can be heard to this day on many all-news stations, was to start each half hour with world and national news, preferably from a network, then switch to locally-anchored area news, filling out the half hour with sports, business news and features. XETRA had no outside reporters and got all of its local news from the AP and UPI wire services. The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio

Group W, the broadcast division of Westinghouse, adopted a second kind of all-news format, using 20-minute rather than 30-minute cycles that eschewed network newscasts so that local and non-local news could be freely mixed, according to what was more interesting or important on any given day. Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, also known as Group W, was the Broadcasting division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. Founded in 1886 as Westinghouse Electric Company and later renamed Westinghouse Electric Corporation by George Westinghouse. Westinghouse also used field reporters at its all-news stations, which included WINS New York and KFWB Los Angeles. WINS (1010 kHz known on-air as "Ten-Ten WINS", is a radio station in New York City, owned by CBS Radio. KFWB is a Los Angeles, California AM radio station operating on 980 KHz with 5000 Watts of power from a transmitter site near Lincoln WINS began broadcasting in April 1965. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. A second New York all-news station, WCBS began all-news programming on August 28, 1967, although its first broadcasts were on its sister FM station after a plane crashed into its tower, knocking the AM station off the air. Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.

In 1975, the NBC Radio Network shut down its profitable weekend music and information service NBC Monitor to launch the News & Information Service (NIS), the first all-news radio network. For NBC 's 1983 television news magazine series see Monitor (TV. It was closed two years later in a cost-cutting move though it had strong ratings in some key markets.

In the mid-1990s a similar effort to NIS was launched by the Associated Press. It was officially known as AP All-News Radio and had many affiliates from coast to coast. However, it was informally better known by its promotional title of "The News Station. " The Associated Press discontinued the all-news format in July 2005.

The last national all-news radio service in the United States, the audio feed of CNN Headline News, is being phased out by Westwood One as of 2007. Headline News is a Spin-off network from the original Cable News Network ( CNN) television news network in the United States. Westwood One ( is an American Radio network. It is based in New York City, and it was previously managed by CBS Radio, the Radio Headline News's audio feed was popular among all-news stations, particularly after the AP disbanded their format in 2005, until the TV station decided to abandon its all-news format and add talk show programming in prime time, when many smaller stations do not have air staff and rely on a network feed, in 2006. A talk show ( American) or chat show ( Global) is a Television or Radio program where one person or group of people come together to Prime Time is the major News analysis current affairs and Politics programme broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland Only a limited number of affiliates remain as many have become talk radio stations. Talk radio is a Radio format containing discussion about topical issues

While not a full-time NIS, the CBS Radio Network provides significant content for many, if not most, all-news radio stations in the United States, especially local stations in smaller markets. The CBS Radio Network provides news sports and other programming to more than 1000 radio stations throughout the United States

All-news has for years been a top-rated radio format in New York, Washington, D. C. , and other cities, but as big city traffic worsens and people work longer hours that increase the urgency of planning their day ahead the focus of such stations has increasingly been on traffic and weather, often updated every 10 minutes. Attempts at long-form commercial all-news stations, such as Washington Post Radio, have been largely unsuccessful. Washington Post Radio was a short-lived attempt by Bonneville Broadcasting and the Washington Post to create a commercial long-form All-news radio network

Stations

All-news stations in the United States

Note: All are owned by CBS unless otherwise noted

All-news stations in Australia

All-news stations in Canada

Note: All are owned by Rogers Broadcasting unless noted

News-talk radio station 570 News in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario (also a Rogers Broadcasting owned station) uses an all-news wheel for its morning show, simulating its sister station 680 News in Toronto. KYW is a class A AM Radio station on 1060 kHz licensed to Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Events 1217 - The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. WBBM (AM also known on-air as "Newsradio 780" is an all-news CBS Radio station in Chicago Illinois broadcasting on the AM Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. WBZ is the callsign for an AM Radio station in Boston Massachusetts which is owned by CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting WCBS (880 kHz often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880", is a Radio station in New York City. The City of New York Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. WINS (1010 kHz known on-air as "Ten-Ten WINS", is a radio station in New York City, owned by CBS Radio. The City of New York Events 1012 - Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich London. 1529 - At the Second Diet of Speyer Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Sunbury (pronounced Sunberry is a city in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. WPNN, known as "CNN Radio WPNN 790" is a Radio station serving the Pensacola Florida, market with an All-News format from CNN Headline Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the County seat of Escambia County. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D History Bonneville International was formed with approval of the LDS First Presidency in 1964. WWJ (Newsradio 950 is Detroit, Michigan 's only 24-hour All-news radio station ABC NewsRadio is an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio service devoted to delivering live and 24-hour news updates and information The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly abbreviated to the 'ABC' is Australia's national public broadcaster. Calgary (ˈkælgəriː is the largest city in the Province of Alberta, Canada CFTR is also an abbreviation for Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Vancouver (vænˈkuːvɚ is a coastal Canada 360 is a Canadian 24-hour News Radio station, which airs on XM Satellite Radio channel 244 XM Radio Canada is the operating name of Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc The City of Kitchener (ˈkɪtʃɨnɚ is a City in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Waterloo is a City in Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec

In February 2001, Corus Entertainment launched an all-news sister station to Vancouver news-talk station CKNW. Corus Entertainment Inc () is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment company CKNW owned by Corus Entertainment, is the highest-rated Talk radio station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. All news NW2 (CJNW AM730, formerly CKLG) was branded as "24 hour news radio, powered by CKNW. " NW2 shared newsroom resources with CKNW, including several anchors and reporters. However, NW2 did not achieve broad appeal, and was shut down in May 2002. The station currently airs an all-traffic format under the call sign CHMJ. CHMJ (identified on air as AM730) is a Canadian radio station in the Greater Vancouver region of British Columbia currently owned

All-news stations in Europe

For a near-complete list of News/Talk radio stations, see Category:News and talk radio stations

See also

External links

The Südwestrundfunk (SWR "Southwest Broadcasting" is a Public broadcasting company for the southwest of Germany specifically the states of Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart (ˈʃtʊtgaɐ̯t is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Newstalk (formerly called NewsTalk 106) is an Independent Radio station in the Republic of Ireland. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. This article is about Broadcast radio, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation.
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