As of March 1, Associated Press Radio will cut programming for weekends and overnights. More than half the staff is being let go, including most of the anchors and radio reporters. The broadcast wire is experimenting with automation.
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AP Radio cutting programming
- Thread starter Radio Rider
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It's too bad, AP has a good radio operation. With newspapers still having circulation declines, I'm sure AP cannot easily increase prices to it's subscribers, so they need to look for efficiencies elsewhere. At least they aren't talking about exiting radio completely, like the Wall Street Journal did a few years ago, at least not yet.
Can you elaborate? Does that mean computers will be stitching together good-for-the-day recorded stories along with minimal immediate content, or have things progressed beyond that? That's a lot of people to replace. Can you point us to the source of this story?
Please tell me that the automation is not going to be computer-generated
like the National Weather Service VHF stations.
like the National Weather Service VHF stations.
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