A typical 24 Hour News Source update (WEWS Cleveland, 1991)
The 24 Hour News Source brand was a common name used by television stations in the 1990s for brief hourly news updates. At its peak, dozens of stations across the U.S. were producing these brief news updates.
[edit] Graphic style
The common style of graphics for 24 Hour News Source updates was to have the anchor/newsreader in a shrunken box at the top right, while graphics (including the 24 Hour News Source name, time and/or temperature) filled the rest of the screen.
This list also includes stations who used the concept but with different branding, such as WDIV's 24 Hour NewsBeat.
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| DMA# | DMA Name | Station | Affiliation | Currently used? | Further information |
| 3 | Chicago | WMAQ-TV | NBC | No | Early 1990s |
| 6 | Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas | KDFW-TV | CBS (now Fox) | No | Early 1990s |
| 7 | Washington, DC | WJLA-TV | ABC | No | Early 1990s |
| 8 | Boston, Massachusetts | WXPO | Independent (now defunct) | No | 1969-1970 (entire time station was on air); no branding |
| 8 | Boston, Massachusetts | WBZ-TV | NBC (now CBS) | No | Early 1990s[1] |
| 9 | Miami, Florida | WTVJ | NBC | No | Early 1990s; then NBC affiliate on channel 4 (added to the news opens)[2] |
| 10 | Detroit, Michigan | WDIV | NBC | No | Early 1990s under the 24 Hour NewsBeat brand[3] |
| 11 | Houston, Texas | KPRC-TV | NBC | No | Early 1990s |
| 15 | Cleveland, Ohio | WEWS-TV | ABC | No | 1990-1997; invented the 24 Hour News Source brand |
| 20 | St. Louis, Missouri | KMOV-TV | CBS | No | Early 1990s |
| 24 | Indianapolis, Indiana | WISH-TV | CBS | Yes | Stylized to "24-Hour News 8" or "24HRNEWS8" as far back as the 1990s[4] |
| 26 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WPXI-TV | NBC | No | Early to mid-1990s[5] |
| 31 | Norfolk, Virginia | WTKR | CBS | No | Early 1990s[6] |
| 32 | Charlotte, North Carolina | WBTV | CBS | No | Early 1990s[7] |
| 34 | Columbus, Ohio | WBNS-TV | CBS | No | Early 1990s |
| 35 | Raleigh, North Carolina | WRAL-TV | CBS | No | Early 1990s[8] |
| 38 | Cincinnati, Ohio | WLWT | NBC | No | 24 Hour News Channel[9] |
| 41 | Birmingham, Alabama | WBRC | ABC (now Fox) | No | Early 1990s |
| 49 | Buffalo, New York | WGRZ-TV | NBC | No | Early 1990s |
| 49 | Buffalo, New York | WIVB-TV | CBS | No | Mid-1990s, WIVB picked up the 24 Hour News after WGRZ dropped the format |
| 55 | Louisville, Kentucky | WLKY | CBS | No | Early 1990s[10] |
| 58 | Richmond, Virginia | WWBT | NBC | No | Early 1990s |
| 65 | Dayton, Ohio | WHIO-TV | CBS | No | Early 1990s |
| 70 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KCRG | ABC | No | Around 1990[11] |
| 82 | Youngstown, Ohio | WYTV | ABC | No | Early-mid 1990s[12] |
| 86 | Davenport, Iowa | WQAD | ABC | No | Early 1990s |
| 93 | Madison, Wisconsin | WISC-TV | CBS | No | 1989-1995 |
| 102 | Lexington, Kentucky | WKYT-TV | CBS | No | |
| 110 | Spokane, Washington | KREM-TV | CBS | No | Early 1990s |
| 174 | Rapid City, South Dakota | KOTA-TV | ABC | No | 1990's/2000 |
[edit] References
