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Serving nearly 700 stations, traffic service eyes news, sports and weather When the Clinton Inaugural Committee needed up-to-the-minute advice on road and traffic conditions in greater Washington to plan inaugural [...]

GROWING NETWORK, AFFILIATE SYMBIOSIS Traditional relationships are changing, but both sides continue to provide what the other can't Network news divisions frequently cite the weak economy as the cause of [...]

Local newsrooms are expanding to provide more in-depth coverage by adding more bureaus and regional coverage ... use satellites linkups for broadcasts ... investigative reporting ... some going to all-news format.

Cable operators flex their journalistic muscle When it comes to local news on cable television, Cablevisionews is, perhaps, preeminent. Reaching the 250,000 subscribers of Cablevision Systems Corp. in Nassau and [...]

HBO's Entertainment Satellite Report has launched a second daily news feed to provide a late afternoon report and accommodate special package requests for subscribers. The service has doubled its subscriber [...]

A week after it canceled plans to launch its own 24-hour news channel in Chicago (Broadcasting, Jan. 20), Tele-communications Inc. has signed an agreement to carry one-time competitor ChicagoLand, a [...]

The British Broadcasting Corp. last week moved a step closer in its plans to establish news channels around the world with the launch of the BBC World Service Television in [...]

Visnews probes importance of foreign coverage to local stations Survey conducted at RTNDA convention among news directors examines what caused stations to go abroad for coverage, methods used in compiling [...]

NBC News goes to Europe NBC news programs will be seen for the first time in West European hotels beginning next Jan. 1, making it the only commercial U.S. network, [...]

CBS unveils NewsNet Network will pick up 50% of costs of transportable uplinks for affiliate Ku-band satellite newsgathering plan; in return, stations will return a minute of ad time to [...]