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25 TV STATIONS NOW ADDING SMILES TO THEIR LOCAL NEWS WASHINGTON, May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- After their daily reports about war, drugs, murder and other 'hard' stories, 25 network-affiliated stations [...]

ATLANTA, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Previewing the long-awaited talks between the leaders of the world's superpower nations, CNN interviews Arms Control Adviser Paul Nitze, Soviet expert on U.S. affairs Georgi [...]

ATLANTA, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Since Thursday morning, when the first of two earthquakes rocked Mexico City, CNN has had the most comprehensive, up-to-date and continuous news coverage of the [...]

ATLANTA, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The most comprehensive television coverage of the 1984 Democratic National Convention will air on Cable News Network next week. On Monday, July 16 at 6:00 [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ TransContinental Television, Inc. (TCTV) is the new subsidiary of the Worldwide Television News Corporation. WTN is owned by Capital Cities/ABC, Independent Television News in Great Britain, and Bond [...]

BOSTON, April 16, /PRNewswire/- On Saturday, April 20, at 7 p.m., WNEV-TV's 'Weekend With Dave Finnegan' will focus on two areas of discussion: the Armenian Holocaust and the Framingham (Mass.) [...]

ATLANTA, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Headline News, Turner Broadcasting System's 24-hour, short-format news service, is now available to Canadian cable subscribers, it was announced today by TBS Chairman of the [...]

22 LOCAL TV STATIONS USING LIVE-BY-SATELLITE INTERVIEWS NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Local television stations are now regularly scooping their competition via the Local Program Network's (LPN) new '1 [...]

>R A % TO CITY AND INTERNATIONAL DESKS AND TV EDITOR: KMEX-TV TO AIR ECUADOR DISASTER-RELIEF PROGRAM SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- KMEX-TV, Channel 34, in cooperation with [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, /PRNewswire/ -- 'Jane Fonda, Jerry Falwell and Vice President George Bush this week are launching the LPN Network's new 'One-On-One Exclusive' news service which gives local TV [...]

CBS launched, along with broadcasters in 13 countries in Europe, what it called 'world's largest satellite newsgathering [SNG] service' on Eutelsat II-F4, TR 5. CBS News Pres. Eric Ober said [...]

Wave Systems has set up Network News Corp. to provide satellite-delivered news to businesses. Company will deliver Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, PR Newswire, Businesswire and others using Hughes DirecPC with Wave […]

Low-power W52AZ Evansville, Ind., Aug. 7 began airing 6 p.m. local news of WFIE-TV (Ch. 14 NBC) Evansville at 9 p.m., believed to be first such arrangement between full-power and […]

ABC and NBC Tues. declined to air live coverage of last night's primetime news conference by President Clinton. CBS provided live coverage, along with cable networks CNN, C-SPAN and America's […]

Telenoticias Spanish-language news channel is being broadcast to cable systems in Spain via Intelsat-K, Comsat reported. Addition follows increase of transponder capacity through digitization. […]

AP has begun London-based international video news service called APTV. CNN's N. American and international channels have signed on, along with networks from 7 other countries. APTV will use own […]

CNN and Intel launched 'CNN At Work' service that will deliver CNN or Headline News directly to subscribers on local area networks (LANs). System will require company to purchase gateway […]

TRW will transmit to International Telecom Japan (ITJ) 24-hour digitally compressed TV news service using C-band transponder aboard Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) it built for NASA. It's first […]

CBS-owned WCCO-TV (Ch. 4) Minneapolis-St. Paul will split its 10 p.m. newscast between 2 broadcast stations on trial basis under agreement with independent KLGT-TV (Ch. 23) Minneapolis-St. Paul. WCCO-TV officials […]

CNN agreed to participate in news-on-demand service being developed for Time Warner's full-service network in Orlando. Service will include information from CNN, Time Inc. publications, other […]

BBC World Service TV will launch Arabic-language news service in partnership with Saudi-owned Orbit Communications. Companies have signed 10-year contract to broadcast in Middle East and N. Africa. Channel will […]

CBS News said it will 'greatly enhance' news coverage for affiliates through 'major expansion' of CBS Newsnet satellite newsgathering service, which provides national and international newsfeeds to member stations and […]

KRON-TV San Francisco said it will launch new Bay Area cable news channel as result of retransmission consent deals with TCI, Westem Communications and InterMedia Partners. Channel is to begin […]

HBO said it will provide 2nd daily news feed to local TV news departments that subscribe to The Entertainment Satellite Report. New 15-min. segment will be transmitted at 8 p.m. […]

International version of CNN will be mostly separate from domestic version beginning in Oct., confirmed Peter Vesey, vp-CNN International. CNN International now carries mostly same programming as domestic CNN, though […]

In bids to widen international viewership, CNN has signed new deals in Germany and France. German deal calls for CNN International to be carried on cable systems in Munich with […]

BBC launched new 24-hour news channel in Asia Mon., as previously announced. At startup, BBC World Service TV had only 2 hours of programming per day, but expects to be […]

New 24-hour local news service in Chicago area will be launched in mid-1992 by Tribune Bcstg. and Continental Cablevision. Service, called ChicagoLand TV, is expected to reach 213,000 subscribers in […]

*SATELLITE SPOTLIGHT: VISNEWS' DRAMATIC COUP COVERAGE* Visnews, the international newsgathering and distribution agency owned by NBC, BBC and Reuter, successfully provided television coverage from Moscow last week of the unfolding […]

Visnews has begun transmitting VisAsia and Visnews Afternoon newsfeeds Mon.-Fri. for use by N. American networks and stations. Satellite-delivered service provides news from Asia, Europe and Middle […]

SWISSAIR TO TRY SATELLITE-DELIVERED TV NEWS ON FLIGHTS The Swiss national airline Swissair plans to offer television news on board its planes in a 3-month experiment starting in October. The […]