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[RogerRabbit]

It's working . I assume this is Norfolk - GO NAVY

[Guest]

What good news!

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Heh heh heh.... other affiliates would raTHer that you not email them to complain....

http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=80158#80158
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[wally626]

This is very good. I don't remember when Rather started doing the radio news updates but it got very annoying. Of course since Hannity is on at the time, I just tuned out Rather.

Why is the anchorman doing the radio updates, don't they have some up and coming newsman who could use a little exposure.

[docford]

WNIS is AM 790 in Norfolk, VA. Here is the link to the Virginia Pilot story.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=75940&ran=190936

WNIS radio drops CBS amid listener protest over Bush story

By SONJA BARISIC, Associated Press

© September 24, 2004 | Last updated 7:24 PM Sep. 23

NORFOLK -- WNIS, a local news-talk radio station, has dumped CBS News because of listener outrage over the "60 Minutes" report questioning President Bush's National Guard service.

WNIS switched Thursday to ABC News, after at least a dozen years with CBS News.

"We had so much outcry from our listeners. They were calling and complaining and saying they wouldn't listen to a CBS newscast anymore," said Lisa Sinclair, general manager of Sinclair Communications, which owns WNIS and four other stations in the Norfolk area, home to the world's largest naval base.

"This is a conservative market, and people felt that CBS was exhibiting a great deal of liberal bias and lost credibility with this situation," Sinclair said, referring to the Sept. 8 story. CBS News said Monday it could not authenticate the documents used in the story and apologized for airing it.
Sinclair did not know how many upset listeners had called the station. WNIS received some calls Thursday from people pleased with the station's decision, she said.

CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said the network has more than 1,000 radio affiliates nationwide and WNIS is the only one to drop CBS. None of the network's more than 200 television affiliates has done so.

"We regret that WNIS made this decision based on this one issue alone," McClintock said in a statement. "CBS Radio News has a rich history of providing its listeners with the best objective coverage in the industry."
WNIS carries a number of opinion-based talk shows, including those of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly.

When it comes to the news, WNIS relies on its news network to provide a report that is "unbiased, simple reporting of the news without any kind of political agenda or any other agenda," Sinclair said.

The station's contract with CBS runs through February, she said. The station will continue carrying commercials sold by the network until then but will no longer use CBS radio reports, she said.

The Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News area is the 40th largest broadcast market in the country, according to Arbitron ratings.

Sinclair Communications also owns four stations in Santa Rose, Calif., and has a partnership with Emmis Communications in six stations in Austin, Texas.

Associated Press television writer David Bauder in New York contributed to this story.
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