{"id":4263,"date":"2012-03-02T05:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2012-03-02T06:12:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T11:12:44","slug":"top-of-the-hour-news-big-changes-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=4263","title":{"rendered":"Top of the Hour News – big changes coming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps I sensed change was in the air.\u00a0\u00a0 The recent post about “Why do we have Top of the News on Radio?”<\/a> was done in part because I recently started tracking which top of the hour news service each station is using. \u00a0 Here were the results so far:<\/p>\n

+------------------+-------+\r\n| company\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 | Count |\r\n+------------------+-------+\r\n| Fox Radio News\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 30 |\r\n| ABC News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19 |\r\n| CBS News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9 |\r\n| CNN News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6 |\r\n| Salem Radio News |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4 |\r\n| AP Radio News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2 |\r\n| IRN News\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 |\r\n| Bloomberg News\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 |\r\n+------------------+-------+<\/pre>\n
Yesterday, CNN announced it is leaving the radio news business effective April 1st.\u00a0\u00a0 CNN used to offer a 24 hr\/day radio news feed, which was only picked up by a handful of stations and that died several years ago.\u00a0\u00a0 Now CNN is getting out of the radio news business entirely.<\/p>\n
Dial Global has been the distributor of CNN’s news.\u00a0\u00a0 What they plan to do is create a new product bringing back the NBC News name to radio.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dirk Van’s morning show is the only show that has continued to carry the NBC News name, which Dial Global inherited from Westwood One, which acquired the rights when GE bought NBC and decided it wasn’t interested in being in the radio business any more.<\/p>\n
Back in December, I had noticed that Dial Global was still using the NBC Radio name and wondered out lout if Dial Global had plans to revive the brand:<\/p>\n
“This is NBC Radio”<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n