Re: TV on radio

["Glenn and Judy Spatola" <g.spatola@home.com>]

An AM station here in the Seattle market has been running CNN Headline News
(pure TV audio) just about 24 hours a day for the past few months.  Prior to
that they were part of the Bloomberg (business radio) network.


Glenn Spatola
Port Orchard, WA


> From: Peter Murray <pete@partnercomm.com>
> Subject: Re: tv on radio
>
> re: CNN Headline News on radio....
>
> Back in Summer of 1991, I worked in creative production at WKBO (1230,
> Harrisburg PA), where they ran a 24/7 news station, with CNN Headline news
> for the first and third quarters of the hour, and local news content
> during the second and fourth quarters. It was well done, in my memory, and
> was pulled not from any audio-specific feed, but from the regular TV feed.
> It probably helped that HN was not available via Sammons Cable in
> Harrisburg at the time...
>
> It pulled pretty good ratings for a 480W AM station on a local channel (it
> helped that the tower was in the middle of the Susquehanna River, on the
> southern end of City Island)...
>
> - -Peter Murray (N3IXY)
> Pittsburgh, PA