Fox, Conus discuss news service. (Radio-Television News Directors Association convention)

Broadcasting & Cable, October, 1994 by McClellan, Steve

Elsewhere at RTNDA closed-door meetings. 'CBS pitches NewsPath price hike; NBC's 'credit squeezing' is hot topic

Affiliate news executives huddled with their respective networks in closed-door sessions at the Radio-Television News Directors Association in Los Angeles last week.

The Fox-New World meeting focused on that network's talks with Conus, AP and Reuters about starting an affiliate news service. In their meeting, CBS affiliates questioned the high price being passed along to them for expanding the CBS NewsPath news feed. They also wondered whether recent station defections would weaken the service. CBS and ABC station executives demanded that their networks look into new late-news promotion strategies, prompted by a recent move in that...

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