There are currently 31 state radio networks in the National Association of State Radio Networks. Each network operates on a similar premise but ownership of each network varies. In principle, each individual network provides live satellite fed radio programs to radio stations in their respective state. The networks rarely charge each individual radio station for these programs, but rather barters with each affiliate for commercial radio time. The network subsequently sells this bartered commercial time to local, regional and national advertisers.
Programming on each network tends to focus on news, weather and sports that concern residents of each respective state. For example, The Louisiana Network will distribute news cast and sportscasts that pertain to the state of Louisiana. Programs tend to be between three and five minutes long. Radio stations are allowed to air all or parts of any broadcast but are contractually obligated to carry all commercial inventory. The vast majority of radio stations will air each fed program in its entirety.
The sale of commercial radio time is administered by each individual network on a local (in state) level. National and regional sales are conducted by StateNets Sales located in Crete, Illinois.
The Texas State Network (TSN) was the first interconnected network and began broadcasting over 60 years ago. TSN is the oldest and largest state radio network in America, incorporated by Elliott Roosevelt (Eleanor's son) and others on August 2, 1938. Five weeks later, TSN's debut broadcast originated from the old Casa Manana in Fort Worth, and featured personalities like Bob Hope and Texas Governor James V. Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.
Original programming included soap operas such as Uncle Jeremiah and The Adventures of Gary and Jill. Most of TSN's early programming, like today's, was devoted to news and sports. Nearly 30 network announcers, production personnel. and control room operators produced Grand Prize Beer's Highlights in the World News each day. Today, TSN provides news, sports, business, weather, agriculture and talk programming to about 130 radio stations, including seven of the affiliates that carried TSN's premier broadcast.
All 31 networks in the National Association of State Radio Networks are interconnected via satellite and distribute programming via downlinks. Most networks have recently begun delivering their programming via the internet. The average network has 55 affiliates.
Many networks are also affiliated with professional and college sports teams. By providing efficient audio delivery, the networks are a major delivery service for dozens of college and university sports programs. They also make this inventory available for sale.
Related Research Articles
A television network or broadcaster is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, where a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay television providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of terrestrial networks. Many early television networks evolved from earlier radio networks.
WGN-TV is an independent television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, it is sister to the company's sole radio property, news/talk/sports station WGN. WGN-TV's studios are located on West Bradley Place in Chicago's North Center community ; its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower in the Chicago Loop.
There are two types of radio network currently in use around the world: the one-to-many broadcast network commonly used for public information and mass-media entertainment, and the two-way radio type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery services. Cell phones are able to send and receive simultaneously by using two different frequencies at the same time. Many of the same components and much of the same basic technology applies to all three.
WCCO-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, and serving the Twin Cities television market. The station is owned by the CBS News and Stations subsidiary of Paramount Global. WCCO-TV's studios are located on South 11th Street along Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, and its transmitter is located at the Telefarm complex in Shoreview, Minnesota.
News broadcasting is the medium of broadcasting of various news events and other information via television, radio, or internet in the field of broadcast journalism. The content is usually either produced locally in a radio studio or television studio newsroom, or by a broadcast network. It may include material such as sports coverage, weather forecasts, traffic reports, political commentary, expert opinions, editorial content, and other material that the broadcaster feels is relevant to their audience. An individual news program is typically reported in a series of individual stories that are presented by one or more anchors. A frequent inclusion are live or recorded interviews by field reporters.
KSLA, virtual channel 12, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, and also serving Texarkana, Texas. The station is owned by Atlanta-based Gray Television. KSLA's studios are located on Fairfield Avenue and Dashiel Street in central Shreveport, and its transmitter is located near St. Johns Baptist Church Road in rural northern Caddo Parish.
KTAL-TV, virtual channel 6, is an NBC-affiliated television station serving Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, that is licensed to Texarkana, Texas. Owned by Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group, it is part of a duopoly with Shreveport-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV ; Nexstar also operates Shreveport-licensed Fox affiliate KMSS-TV under a shared services agreement (SSA) with owner Mission Broadcasting. The stations share studios on North Market Street and Deer Park Road in northeast Shreveport; KTAL-TV maintains a secondary studio on Summerhill Road in Texarkana, Texas and transmitter facilities northwest of Vivian, Louisiana.
KOKH-TV is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CW affiliate KOCB. The stations' studios and transmitter facilities are co-located on East Wilshire Boulevard and 78th Street on the city's northeast side.
WeatherVision is a TV syndication company based in Jackson, Mississippi. WeatherVision produces and distributes customized weather forecast segments for local airing by over 200 commercial and public television stations nationwide. The forecasts are custom-produced for each TV station providing weather information for that station's broadcast area, complete with the station's own on-screen branding and logos. WeatherVision's satellite uplink and studio apparatus serve also as Jackson Teleport, Mississippi's first satellite uplink studio unit. For over 20 years, Jackson Teleport has served all major networks, including CNN, FOX, CBS, CNBC, and others with live satellite guest shots from Jackson and the surrounding area.
Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. JRN and JMN provide local radio stations with satellite-delivered formats. They also offer other services to local radio such as news and talk programs, syndicated radio shows, music scheduling, show preparation, and music and sales Research. Jones Media Network also owns many national syndication shows such as Lia, All Night with Danny Wright, The Ed Schultz Show, The Stephanie Miller Show, The Bill Press Show, The Neal Boortz Show, The Clark Howard Show, and A&E Network's Live by Request. Jones Media Networks & Jones Radio Networks own production studios in: New York, NY; Los Angeles; Chicago; Washington, DC; Seattle, WA; Centennial, CO; and Florida. Clark Howard and Neal Boortz are broadcast from the studios of WSB-AM in Atlanta, GA; those shows are produced by Cox Radio. Jones Media Networks reaches about 1.3 billion weekly listeners in radio. In 2006, Jones purchased TM Century, a Dallas-based company providing jingles and production services for radio stations across the country.
KVII-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a dual ABC/CW+-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. KVII-TV's studios are located at One Broadcast Center between South Pierce and South Buchanan streets in downtown Amarillo, and its transmitter is located west of US 87/287, in unincorporated Potter County.
ABC News Radio is the radio service of ABC Audio, a division of ABC News in the United States. Formerly known as ABC Radio News, ABC News Radio feeds, through Skyview Networks, five minute newscasts on the hour and news briefs at half-past the hour, to its network affiliates. ABC News Radio is the largest commercial radio news organization in the US.
KMYT-TV, virtual channel 41, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Owned by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group, it is part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate KOKI-TV ; it is also sister to local radio stations KRMG, KRAV-FM (96.5), KWEN and KJSR.
KFDA-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 10, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Amarillo, Texas, United States. Owned by Atlanta-based Gray Television, it is part of a duopoly with Borger-licensed Telemundo affiliate KEYU. Both stations share studios on Broadway Drive in northern Amarillo, where KFDA's transmitter is also located.
KMSS-TV, virtual channel 33, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, and also serving Texarkana, Texas. Owned by Wichita Falls, Texas-based Mission Broadcasting, it is operated under a shared services agreement (SSA) by Nexstar Media Group, making it sister to Nexstar's duopoly of Texarkana-licensed NBC affiliate KTAL-TV and Shreveport-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV. The stations share studios on North Market Street and Deer Park Road in northeast Shreveport, while KMSS-TV's transmitter is located southeast of Mooringsport.
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual program stream, and multiplexing to combine them into a single signal. The practice is sometimes called "multicasting".
In broadcasting, local insertion is the act or capability of a broadcast television station, radio station or cable system to insert or replace part of a network feed with content unique to the local station or system. Most often this is a station identification, but is also commonly used for television or radio advertisements, or a weather or traffic report. A digital on-screen graphic, commonly a translucent watermark, may also be keyed (superimposed) with a television station ID over the network feed using a character generator using genlock. In cases where individual broadcast stations carry programs separate from those shown on the main network, this is known as regional variation or an opt-out.
The Texas State Network is the largest of the 30 state radio networks in the United States. TSN mainly distributes news and agriculture business to more than 130 AM and FM radio affiliates across Texas.
Louisiana Radio Network (LRN) is a state radio network based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that produces news, sports, business and agricultural news programming distributed via satellite to 62 affiliates throughout Louisiana and parts of Mississippi. Louisiana Radio Network (LRN) is a sponsor of the annual Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction and publishes Tiger Rag Magazine, which focuses on Louisiana State University sports.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
