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KQED to team up with NPR for election coverage

Yawn! San Francisco will feed returns starting at 2am. Whether any stations are still taking the feed by then is an open question. They take over after it's all over.

What happened to Culver City? aka "NPR West." Have they decided (yet again) to shut down that superfluous waste of stations' money. NPR keeps pulling back, then changing it's mind and trying to get something going out there and then pulling back again.
 
KQED will pick up the added costs of contributing to a live national broadcast, according to Kernan, though NPR is footing the bill for providing Suarez. Collaborating with NPR is also more time-consuming for KQED, but Kernan said the effort will be worthwhile because it will provide a better experience for listeners.
“This is a gesture [by NPR] to say stations matter, stations have resources, stations have talent that the network should tap into, and that we truly are a network and not a distribution model,” Kernan said.

If NPR had opted to broadcast from NPR West, it would have had to install a full newsroom and the required technical and engineering infrastructure, Turpin said. “Why would we want to duplicate resources?” he said. “Why would we want to build something on election night that essentially already exists at a station at a very high level?”

Meanwhile, live hosting provided from the East Coast by NPR would not have served the audience as well as KQED, “who knows the audience,” Turpin added.
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Here's NPR's News explanation for using KQED as its West Coast bureau to report election results. Odd explanation though since both KQED-FM, and other large west coast NPR News/Talk stations like KXJZ-FM Sacramento can also argue that they have resources to announce election results because they are at the state capital of California and they also provide California state politics content for all the other NPR News/Talk stations on the West Coast too. Or KPCC Los Angeles they can make the same argument too to air west coast coverage of the 2016 elections but then again its NPR's Call here.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Here's NPR's News explanation for using KQED as its West Coast bureau to report election results.
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That's very nice, but when they built NPR West, they specifically included west coast election coverage as part of its role. See the below release:

http://www.npr.org/about/press/021016.nprwest.html

Since then, several of the shows that once originated there have been canceled, so they have ample facilities. It sounds to me like a shift in the way they do programming, from originating everything internally to collaborating with successful stations. I've noticed this in several other areas.
 
RadioPatrol said:
Here's NPR's News explanation for using KQED as its West Coast bureau to report election results. Odd explanation though since both KQED-FM, and other large west coast NPR News/Talk stations like KXJZ-FM Sacramento can also argue that they have resources to announce election results because they are at the state capital of California and they also provide California state politics content for all the other NPR News/Talk stations on the West Coast too. Or KPCC Los Angeles they can make the same argument too to air west coast coverage of the 2016 elections but then again its NPR's Call here.
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Anybody with a decent desktop computer and a high-speed Internet connection has the resources to announce election results.

Given the major West Coast member stations, I don't see why they needed "NPR West" in Culver City. But since they did set up and staff "NPR West" and use it as an origination point for Morning Edition and All Things Considered, why don't they use it on election night?

This also raises the question that since any number of NPR "member stations" have the resources to announce election results, why do they need NPR's feed? Other than picking up NPR for victory/concession speeches and that sort of thing, everything else can be done at the station. In addition, stations would be free to concentrate on congressional, state and local races and referenda.
 
Oscar Madison said:
Anybody with a decent desktop computer and a high-speed Internet connection has the resources to announce election results.

Given the major West Coast member stations, I don't see why they needed "NPR West" in Culver City. But since they did set up and staff "NPR West" and use it as an origination point for Morning Edition and All Things Considered, why don't they use it on election night?

This also raises the question that since any number of NPR "member stations" have the resources to announce election results, why do they need NPR's feed? Other than picking up NPR for victory/concession speeches and that sort of thing, everything else can be done at the station. In addition, stations would be free to concentrate on congressional, state and local races and referenda.
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But wait KQED is also a PBS affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the same KQED News staff calling Bay Area and West Coast election races for NPR might also have to file reports for PBS Newshour too. I know PBS Newshour will also borrow KQED news staff to do analysis for West Coast results though.
 
Oscar Madison said:
This also raises the question that since any number of NPR "member stations" have the resources to announce election results, why do they need NPR's feed?
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The big stations don't, and probably KQED wouldn't carry the NPR feed if it wasn't part of it. That may have played a part in this decision.

National services like NPR offer these feeds for small stations that don't have the resources or staff, especially at night. Much easier and cheaper to just run the network.
 
RadioPatrol said:
But wait KQED is also a PBS affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the same KQED News staff calling Bay Area and West Coast election races for NPR might also have to file reports for PBS Newshour too. I know PBS Newshour will also borrow KQED news staff to do analysis for West Coast results though.
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Most stations, even in much smaller markets, maintain separate news operations and staff for radio and television. And networks rarely, if ever, use locals for analysis. On the Media did a report last week on the practice of using campaign operatives (like the one CNN used who also worked for Hillary and fed her debate questions in advance) for so-called "analysis," which is really free promotion for their parties or campaigns.

This sounds like NPR once again pandering to member stations in line with Mohn's hype about local "partnership." NPR takes reports from locals as they always have but nothing much has changed since Mohn began sucking up to the local fund raisers - I mean managers.
 
Oscar Madison said:
NPR takes reports from locals as they always have but nothing much has changed since Mohn began sucking up to the local fund raisers - I mean managers.
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It's where their funding comes from. People tend to suck up to the source of their meal ticket. It's human nature.
 
Oscar Madison said:
Most stations, even in much smaller markets, maintain separate news operations and staff for radio and television. And networks rarely, if ever, use locals for analysis. On the Media did a report last week on the practice of using campaign operatives (like the one CNN used who also worked for Hillary and fed her debate questions in advance) for so-called "analysis," which is really free promotion for their parties or campaigns.

This sounds like NPR once again pandering to member stations in line with Mohn's hype about local "partnership." NPR takes reports from locals as they always have but nothing much has changed since Mohn began sucking up to the local fund raisers - I mean managers.
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Yes for stations where the NPR News/talk station also owns a PBS affiliate like KQED and KPBS San Diego. The News staff is one entity for both the TV and Radio as in this case though. As in the case for KQED they serve as the West Coast Bureau for both PBS Newshour and NPR News.
 
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