If The News Image Still Matters, Why Not News?
Written Dec. 23, 2008 by Sean Ross in Content + Terrestrial Radio with 0 Comments
Recently, the Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader reported that the market's two News/Talk stations were engaged in a promo war over the size of their news departments. Clear Channel's WLAP has one on-air newsperson. Cumulus rival WVLK continues to run promos claiming the largest local news team, "even after the early November layoffs of two of its three news reporters." Both stations cite their partnership with local TV stations as effectively extending the size of the news team; the paper contends that NPR affiliate WUKY is actually the largest radio news staff in the city. There's some cold comfort here in knowing that the size of the news department is something that a radio station still thinks would matter to a small-market listener; it's just something stations are less likely to be able to deliver.
And former WERV Chicago PD Matt DuBiel had this to say about how Chicago stations responded to a recent storm/traffic crisis.
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