Word: news
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...bolster the reputation of their profitable newscasts, local stations send their anchors scurrying all over the world to report major international news stories that were once the domain of network reporters. California anchors fly off to Central America, Beijing and Tokyo. When East Germany began to break / down the Berlin Wall two weeks ago, dozens of local U.S. news teams headed to Berlin from markets as big as Seattle and as small as Manchester, N.H. Says John Spinola, general manager of Westinghouse-owned station WBZ in Boston: "Every time I look around, we've got someone out of the country...
Like newspapers that subscribe to the Associated Press and other wire services, hundreds of stations are also expanding their reach, and often cutting costs, by subscribing to video news services, swapping coverage with other broadcasters, or making deals to get their stories on cable stations. WWL, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, has its own all-news cable channel. Half a dozen video news services offer prepackaged stories to fill out local newscasts. One of the largest services is Conus, a news cooperative with 100 U.S. member stations. Other leading entries include Group W Newsfeed, a division of Westinghouse...
...have formed with CNN. Both KRON and WSB are among the 121 network affiliates that are CNN partners. The Atlanta-based cable network airs stories provided by its partners via satellite, and distributes the stories to other station partners for their use. Broadcasters believe local viewers who catch their news teams on cable may be more likely to tune in the station if they like what they see. Says Peter Herford, a former CBS News executive who directs the Benton Broadcast Fellowships at the University of Chicago: "All of these factors are pulling apart the traditional relationship between the networks...
Until now, the broadcast networks had not viewed the CNN partnerships as much of a threat, since most of the stories involved never ran on the networks anyway. Those days are gone. When NBC News delayed switching to live coverage the night of the California earthquake, for example, CNN effectively replaced the network for CNN's 45 NBC affiliates by feeding them the live coverage from KRON in San Francisco and KNBC in Los Angeles...
...frustrated Michael Gartner, president of NBC News, later told the New York Times that the arrangements his affiliates had made with CNN "must be explored sooner or later." But the NBC affiliates rebuffed Gartner's suggestion. "It's too late for the networks to go back to the old way, when / they were the only ones we associated with," said Bob Jordan, news director of NBC affiliate KCRA in Sacramento. "Too many affiliates have other partnerships now and are unwilling to give them...