Re: Will News/Information In Morning Drive Soon Vanish from Music Stations?

["Marc Lemay" <times@massachusetts.com>]

>In an ideal situation, say the FM is a music station, and the AM is
>full-service, or news-talk.  An AM newsperson would spend about 10 minutes
>on the FM (including prep, waiting for cues, etc.) and then return to the
AM
>where he or she would fit back in as one of teh anchors...or he or she
could
>do teh news on FM while the AM is doing music.  Same thing for traffic
>copter reoports.

This was the situation I was in at WHAV/WLYT...I would do the FM news at
:52...over to the AM at :00...re-write both casts for :23 & :30 (FM & AM
respectfully)...repeating the schedule until 8:52 AM...then I would become
strictly AM.

>The news printer is being replaced by computer, and you select the stories
>you want and print them out.  No more waste of volumes of unnecessary
paper,
>filled with weather and news from outside of your coverage area.

Got to play with AP NewsDesk (or some fancy, dancy name like that)...I would
of killed for one of those during my radio days...

>Now as for the newspaper, any Radio newsperson who tells you he or she
>doesn't "borrow" from the local newspaper on occasion, might think you've
>got wool over your eyes.

I've never borrowed from the newspaper...and the check is in the mail too.
(sarcasim off)

Marc Lemay
http://www.massachusetts.com/times

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