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Re: WITS

In a message dated 6/18/98 1:17:38 AM, beckwith@ime.net wrote:

<< What's a "pre-feed" newscast? 

NBC Radio had a practice (and may still, for all I know) of running a
special feed of its top-of-the-hour newscast at :54 to benefit
stations that wanted to run their local news at :00 or thereabouts, or
didn't want to run instrumentals or "fill songs" to meet a network
deadline.  ABC feeds its "noontime" Paul Harvey broadcast earlier in
the day to give its affiliates similar scheduling flexibility.>>

ABC does the same thing with their news, sending 3 feeds before the top of the
hour for anyone who wants to record them to use them at their leisure.  The
ones that ABC has are shorter in length (from 1 minute to 3 minutes) than
their top of the hour 4 or 5 minute broadcast(depending on which service it
is).

Gary Ford

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