[GreenKeys] OT Fwd: News by Radio Fax 1920 - 1930

[Richard Knoppow]

     He mentions Columbia Broadcasting setting up its own news bureau. 
That was because none of the wire services would contract with a radio 
station in order to protect their newspaper subscribers. Unless a radio 
station had some sort of agreement with a newspaper it had no source of 
news. Of course, some stations were owned by newspapers but the FRC and 
FCC after it always blew hot and cold about that.
     Sometime around the late 1930s there began to be wire services for 
radio. I think the first was Transradio Press which was organized in 
1934 by a former Columbia employee. That was followed a couple of years 
later by the Associated Press who created a division called Press 
Association Inc., or PA, (how imaginative) to service radio stations. 
The networks then backed off running their own press services because 
they were very expensive. Wire services always engaged in embargoing 
some stories to protect newspaper deadlines. I think they still do this 
but these days most items that are embargoed for release time are so to 
protect sources. The press services agree to this to get the stories. 
Business stories are sometimes embargoed to avoid violating stock 
trading regulations.
     When radio was king newspapers worried about being hurt by radio 
news. They were but never as much as they feared. TV hit them a lot 
harder and the internet has almost killed print media. Actually it is 
killing off broadcasting of all types now including cable (maybe 
especially cable).  I don't think over the air broadcasting will 
disappear entirely for quite some time but its already suffering badly. 
Cable TV will vanish quickly, no one needs it if high speed internet is 
available. I spent more than thirty years in broadcasting and must say 
its almost unrecognizable now compared to the industry I started in.
     A lot of Gernsback's stuff is at http://www.americanradiohistory.com


On 12/3/2016 4:43 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> http://rfcafe.com/references/radio-craft/radio-set-prints-newspaper-radio-craft-april-1934.htm
>
> Also check this newspaper by radio!
>


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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL