At my AM station in Longview, WA, we have a 3 minute newscast that comes to us over the satellite from CNN Radio-Atlanta at the top of the hour. My boss (the PD) has been suggesting we dump it out of our format. What could I tell him to influence him to go ahead and dump it?

Tell him CNN sucks.

Replace it with the House of Hair or something.

House of Hair is a 2 hour show. Dumping CNN would leave me 3 minutes at the top of each hour, except when we preempt it for sports. Before CNN, we used NBC, but they ceased producing theirs, which led to the CNN switch. I wanna try and sell them on a similar thing from Fox News or ABC.

If I were you, I'd do my damndest to convince him to free up 2 hours so you can have House of Hair. But if that doesn't work, I'd go with Fox News.

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i get fox news ( ) at the station i work at, and their show is 5 minutes long. shepherd smith is pretty funny, but it's generally the same BS.

gives me time to line up my commercials/music/promos/announcements though. if we didnt have it my job would be harder.

I'm going to float the idea of Fox News by the PD, and hope it gets to the GM, and then on the air! I hate having to say at the end of my weather forecasts "With exclusive coverage of national and international news from CNN, 1490 KLOG." I want to say Fox News Radio instead!

congrates 'kelso' ;)

its great to see some fresh blood infused into the Moderator reigns.

Thanks Halvy!

Maybe you can find someone that can fill that three minute block voluntarily? Seems like it would be good experience for someone wanting to get into radio.

As for a reason to dump CNN, I dont know what to tell you. It seems like hes already keen on dumping it anyways.

Why do you have to get it from CNN? Can't someone do it themselves reading Google News or something?

Thats just it. We wouldn't have anyone there to read it as we go down to minimal staff during the day. After our morning show guys get off work for the day, all we have is our front desk people, the PD, the GM, and maybe a board operator. The CNN service manifests itself automagically into our schedule, and plays itself at the top of the hour. They will never let a live news occur after the morning show, so why don't we at least get rid of the liberals, and get something with a little less bias, like Fox.

Less bias with fox, thats funny. http://tinyurl.com/23jf5e

Well, Fox would fit the country demographic better.

so why don't we at least get rid of the liberals

Now, why the hell would you want to do that? Liberals and Liberal organizations (such as the ACLU) are the reason you have freedom of speech.

Now, why the hell would you want to do that? Liberals and Liberal organizations (such as the ACLU) are the reason you have freedom of speech.

ACLU handles the interesting, cream of the crop, high profile situations.

But my personal experience when I was a young man with them tells another story about how 'good' they really are.

When I called them to help me out concerning freedom of speech issues, which had cost me a good federal government job.. they told me (basically) to go to hell, because I was a Christian.

People *have* freedom of speech.. always..

And it is ONLY limited by how much we LET others tell us.. what we can say...

ACLU handles the interesting, cream of the crop, high profile situations.

But my personal experience when I was a young man with them tells another story about how 'good' they really are.

When I called them to help me out concerning freedom of speech issues, which had cost me a good federal government job.. they told me (basically) to go to hell, because I was a Christian.

People *have* freedom of speech.. always..

And it is ONLY limited by how much we LET others tell us.. what we can say...

Thats interesting because I remember a case where the ACLU stood up for a lady because she refused to remove her crucifix necklace at work.

Let me interject that this is going slightly off the topic. The ACLU argument might be moved out of here as it's own thread.

They will never let a live news occur after the morning show, so why don't we at least get rid of the liberals, and get something with a little less bias, like Fox.

???

Isn't it generally accepted that Fox has a right wing bias?

It is at least as conservative as say... NPR is liberal.

Anyway just try to switch it to whatever you believe your listeners would prefer.

I would definitely say that public broadcasting has a greater bias than most media outlets. I don't watch Fox news much but it doesn't seem that biased. The only reason for that is the people on it like Bill O'Reilly and company.

Fox news makes me sick. There are far far far too many law suits associated with Fox "stretching the truth" to meet their own needs. Too many fake stories based on products/advertisement and too much bias.

Stick with CNN over fox, though it's only marginally better.

I was so painfully upset when Dow sold the WSJ. It really ruined my week. One of the few remaining unbiased non discriminatory news sources left taken over by the king of propaganda. A few of their writers quit due to this.

You used to be able to trust the WSJ, the only SAFE thing in the WSJ are the "editors notes" or something which in the contract specified that he wouldn't be able to change. However he has the power to change any other news stories he wishes.

Anyone else read the Fox news letter to the company in which the writer professed to changing the news to make a better story rather than a truer one?

I digress. Stick with CNN. =P

Yes, it is well known that truth has a liberal bias.

your not gonna watch a station that doesn't have biased and fox news does have it. Its in the stupid things they cover. Like the whole flag pin thing. CNN may only show the bad say in iraq, but fox news would cover something stupid like how where allowed to have porn mags in our PX and how its evil.

what ended up happening Kelso?

also, my station used to have 4 minute ABC news.

i believe we get our fox news feeds and shit through this company:
http://www.premiereradio.com/

at least that's where i send advertising affidavits to.

For now, we are staying with CNN. It didn't ever get to our General Manager, because my PD stomped on it. Says it'd cost us too much to change the addressing on the satellite, change all of our advertising to reflect it, plus the termination of the contract.