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Date: 3/28/2017 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2017 : Issue 19
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      radio and the wire services           [ "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 21:05:25 -0400
    From: "Bob C" <rmcblc@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  radio and the wire services

    It should be noted that while different Teletype circuits
    provided news to radio stations written in "broadcast
    style," as opposed to newspaper -- "The governor said blah,
    blah, blah" vs. "Blah, blah, blah, said the governor" -- the
    networks did not abandon their newspaper wires. The "A-wire"
    was the main newspaper wire; the "B-wire" carried news there
    just wasn't room (time) for on the A-wire (clicking along at
    about 65 words per minute), or it was news the editors
    deemed of secondary importance, or news that might have more
    of a regional interest than national. As newspaper wires,
    they carried much more detail than the radio wires.

    Also, the networks were more likely to rewrite the copy
    anyway, fitting information in and around their own
    correspondents' reports and other time requirements. Back in
    the day, with many more newspapers, both morning and
    evening, and in recognition of their set deadlines, big
    stories might break first on the newspaper A wire.

    The broadcast wire was a boon to smaller stations with
    little or no news staff and "doing the news" fell to
    announcers. They were provided with formatted five-minute
    newscasts and longer round-ups (for morning, noon and
    evening newscasts) without much work -- at least, in theory.
    It was often referred to as "rip 'n' read" -- but that could
    get such an announcer in trouble because of typos or when
    there were circuit or machine problems and the copy would
    completely garble.

    Bob Cockrum

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