[grc] How many stations associated with this list have a newscast? Or plan to?

[Robert Park]

Such a survey needs to distinguish between local news and national (or
international) news and between news gathered by the station or some other
organization.

Our LPFM station, for example, broadcasts Democracy Now! on weekday
mornings and the 6 min. daily news summaries from Public News Service
evenings Mon. - Sat. We also broadcast brief stories from the Wisconsin
News Connection (affiliated with Public News Service) when they are
available, about twice a week. The station has no paid staff, no studio and
no reporter (other than me). However I do occasionally broadcast news from
our part of Madison on Neighborhood News at Noon on Saturday, such as an
announcement of a bake sale at a nearby library or a recording from a
neighborhood meeting with the mayor or police chief. We also have a weekly
"Crime Alert" feature a few min. long recorded by the head of a
neighborhood watch group for the station. In addition, through a local
program sharing agreement with our full power community radio station,
WORT, I often rebroadcast selected talks shows from their station which
sometimes include recent local news.

Bob Park
Program Director
WIDE-LP 99.1 FM
http://widelp.org/
https://twitter.com/WIDE_LP
(See also http://lpfm.madisonwi.us/)

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Ann Garrison via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org
> wrote:

> This year's GRC was very much oriented to the new LPFM stations coming on
> line and to their technical concerns.
>
> I know this isn't a very systematic way to do a survey, but I'd like to
> know how many stations now have a daily - or less than daily - newscast.
> And how many hope to in the future.
>
> Perhaps Ursula and Greta can devise a more systematic way of surveying this
> list. I think this could probably be done with a Doodle Poll but I've never
> created one myself.
>
> For real,
> Ann Garrison <http://www.anngarrison.com/>
> Independent Journalist,
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