Do you mean legal penalties? If you do, the answer is "none." In theory,
a station that broadcasts old, old news might run afoul of whatever's left
of the "licensed operate in the public, interest, convenience and necessity"
doctrine. I dunno: Is old news better or worse than no news at all?
Remember, radio stations are no longer obligated to broadcast _any_ news.
In the main, I don't think that radio is taken seriously by many as a
serious source for any than weather news. There are of course some stations
that are major exceptions. You may care. I don't. To each his own.

Cheers.

Don Forsling
"Iowa--Gateway to Those Big Rectangular States"

"George Carden" wrote in message
...
Rich, (and all)...

I would like to ask another question, along these same lines....

What are the limits/penalities, for a radio station that records and
re-airs a radio network newscast hours...in some instances even *days*
later? I actually know of a station that does this, much to the
chagrine of anyone who respects professional broadcasting practices,
responsibility and journalism.

-George Carden, Minneapolis, MN

airwaves-digest wrote on 4/20/2004, 5:15 AM:

Date: 19 Apr 2004 21:06:28 GMT
From: Rich Wood
Subject: [Airwaves] What is the typical price/length of a
syndicated radio news contract?

Don Forsling wrote:
Do you mean legal penalties? If you do, the answer is "none." In theory,
a station that broadcasts old, old news might run afoul of whatever's left
of the "licensed operate in the public, interest, convenience and necessity"
doctrine. I dunno: Is old news better or worse than no news at all?

I dunno, I just tuned into the local college station to hear an annoucement
about an invasion in Normandy this afternoon. I found it interesting, but
I did not find it topical.

Remember, radio stations are no longer obligated to broadcast _any_ news.
In the main, I don't think that radio is taken seriously by many as a
serious source for any than weather news. There are of course some stations
that are major exceptions. You may care. I don't. To each his own.

I think it's a shame, personally.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

I dunno, I just tuned into the local college station to hear an
annoucement
about an invasion in Normandy this afternoon. I found it interesting, but
I did not find it topical.


Al Kaada is invading normandy? the French are surrendering again?

sorry, i've never even heard of anyone rerunning net news over a day old
before this. i was involved in taping net news following 9-11 so top of
the hour news played at bottom of the hour (or thereabouts) on FM stations
that didn't normally air net news.

we reciently had a starguide malfunction which resulted in a tape delayed
program airing the some of same elements repeatedly. the contact closure
"stuck" so automation never got the cue to start recording a new segment.

suppose some station records a cart called "news01" then their automation is
set to play news01 once an hour during dayparts. then no one updates the
cart for a few days. AND the cart is set to never expire. this would result
in the kind of problem that's being discussed.

Tim Perry wrote:

I dunno, I just tuned into the local college station to hear an
annoucement
about an invasion in Normandy this afternoon. I found it interesting, but
I did not find it topical.

Al Kaada is invading normandy? the French are surrendering again?

No, just the Germans again, thanks to Scully.

sorry, i've never even heard of anyone rerunning net news over a day old
before this. i was involved in taping net news following 9-11 so top of
the hour news played at bottom of the hour (or thereabouts) on FM stations
that didn't normally air net news.

I had never either, except of course in the case of historical programs
like mentioned above.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."