"News before the hour" (Was Re: WITS)

[mwaters@wesleyan.edu (Martin J. Waters)]

>Bump Martin wrote:
>The newscast that NBC fed their stations for the top of the hour (:00)
>was actually fed first at :54.  This facilitated the Top 40 stations
>which liked to do news before the hour.  (WNBC actually ran the 'pre-
>feed' network news, opting not to be running ANY news at the top of the
>hour.)  This also facilitated stations like WITS which thought it more
>importatnt to run LOCAL news at the top of the hour.
>
>Someone told me that the NBC newscast was actually '*recorded* by the
>anchor in NY at :48.  (That may have been fed to the stations as well,
>seeing as the old top 40's like to do news at :50.  Similar to the ABC
>Contemporary Network...)

        Another icon shattered, perhaps. You're telling me that the NBC
news on the hour, back when it was a real network, wasn't even live? Are
you sure they didn't do multiple versions? I'm a little skeptical that NBC
was feeding a recorded newscast on the hour back in the '60s or '70s.

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