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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city's profitable and professional all-news pioneer WINS last month. The hard news was no problem-CBS has been reporting it for years. But the filler-sports for women only, psychologists answering letters from worried mothers, non-interviews with non-persons-showed signs of strain. The station developed a serious case of call letteritis ("And now, CBS news presents the CBS weather report"), mentioning CBS or WCBS about 35 times an hour. It also suffers from a lingering trace of the oldtime-radio multiple-byline syndrome: "We now take you to the White House for a report from...
Philadelphia's KYW, losing money 19 months ago with disk-jockey noises, has gone into all news and into the black. Listener ratings show a jump of almost 400% in the past two years, and last week the station won the annual Radio-TV News Directors Award for its coverage of the Glassboro summit...
...Louis' WIL, which may be the oldest commercial radio station west of the Mississippi, is scheduled to switch this week to all news. So doing, it joins a string of half a dozen other broadcasters who have decided to give up music, sunrise chitchat and daytime lady talk for news, news, news...
Into the Black. One of the least boring is WAVA, which covers Washington, D.C., from Arlington, Va. While admitting that the location has built-in advantages, WAVA's executive vice president, John Burgreen, points to fan mail from Congressmen, Government officials and businessmen complimenting the station for its continuous, up-to-the-minute coverage of the Arab-Israeli war. Even the President has had his office wired so he can monitor WAVA instantly...
...years, Chicago's WNUS has done anything but. Most of its monotonous news coverage, the product of a 23-man staff, sounds as though it were ripped off the wire-service ticker and read without the least editing. WNUS listeners have also endured reports from Viet Nam by Station Owner Gordon McLendon, 46, and from Tel Aviv by his 23-year-old daughter Jan. As befits its product, WNUS ranks a poor seventh in overall Windy City listeners...