Re: Radio network news

[Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>]

<<On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 22:01:20 -0500, Chip Austin <caustin@cox.net> said:

> This discussion of network radio got me wondering: whatever happened to
> NBC Radio (specifically news) and Mutual Radio.  Didn't NBC Radio News
> continue (in name at least) after NBC sold the Radio division? And when
> did Mutual disappear? Did someone else buy them or did they just die?

They ended up in the hands of Westwood One, which shuttered both a few
years ago.  (Both networks were shells of their former selves by that
time, and most affiliates who had a choice had already moved to ABC or
CBS.)

-GAWollman