Get minute-to-minute news coverage, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the AP NewsPower MAX wire, AP’s highest level of service for radio stations.

Combining the speed and air-ready service of NewsPower+ 24 Hours with the in-depth resources of AP’s print-style news and sports wires, NewsPower MAX gives you the full background on stories so you can develop your own material from our resources.

With AP NewsPower MAX, you can localize AP’s state and national stories, do your own rewrites, or use the detailed information we provide to find contacts and to know where to assign your reporters. NewsPower MAX also includes two additional newsroom research tools: The Planner and the Washington Daybook.

AP Coverage Rundown is a look ahead at what stories AP Broadcast is covering and how we plan to cover them. The Rundown moves six times per day on weekdays and twice on weekends.

The Washington Daybook is an in-depth listing of all the stories on tap in Washington, including detailed contact and set-up information.

Like all AP wires, NewsPower MAX is selectable by category, so you can customize it to your newsroom's needs.

Benefits and Options
News
Show Prep
Weather
Sports
Business
Entertainment
Lottery
Seasonal Features
Planning Guide

Benefits and Options:

• AP print-style wire from member’s state.
• Print-style stories on national and international news, business and sports.
• AP NewsPower+ wire.
• AP Coverage Rundown and Washington Daybook.

Four Wires in One

AP NewsPower Max delivers real-time information and depth.

• AP’s state print-style wire for in-depth state and regional news, sports and business stories. Stories cover station’s home state.
• AP’s basic national and international print-style wire for in-depth news, business and entertainment stories.
• The AP NewsPower+ wire, for quick reader-length stories and headlines in easy-to-read broadcast style. Stories cover world and national news, station’s home state and two adjacent states.
• Print-style sports stories, for detailed game accounts, scores, statistics, standings and averages. The copy moves between 8:30 p.m. and 2 a.m., meeting a station’s need for comprehensive afternoon and evening results, previews, post-game material and developing stories.

Bulletins - News

• News, sports, entertainment, business and weather bulletins and urgents, 24 hours a day.
• Instant updates on state and national news, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• Immediate coverage of important and interesting stories, in print-style copy and voicer-length scripts.
• Coverage of state and national "watercooler" stories, in print-style stories and voicer-length scripts.
• State NewsMinutes.
• State NewsWatch summaries or NewsAgendas.
• National NewsMinutes every hour, 24 hours a day.
• NEW AP Right Now, a frequently updated summary of current news, wilth both separate-length and shorter stories.

Prep

• Cooler Copy - collection of the best water cooler stories of the past day.
• Almanac of historical events and birthdays.
• Almanac of the day's historical events and birthdays in entertainment.
• Morning kicker script of upbeat and offbeat stories.
• Morning and afternoon general entertainment scripts.
• Morning country, urban and rock scripts.
• Cyber Corner - a morning cyberspace script.
• Morning and afternoon list of sports scores and schedules.
• Morning and afternoon list of guests on television talk shows and late-night shows.
• Morning and afternoon list of the evening's prime time highlights.
• Morning lists of television ratings, top records, videos and movies.

Weather

• Weather bulletins.
• Watches and warnings.
• State and zone forecasts and The Nation’s Weather.
• Hourly temperatures.
• Local forecasts, radar summaries, marine forecasts and agriculture weather.
• Hurricane advisories.

Sports

• Instant updates on state and national sports developments, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• Immediate coverage of the important and interesting sports stories, in print-style stories and voicer-length scripts.
• In-depth coverage of major sports stories in print-style copy.
• NEW AP Scores on the Fours -- scorecards that will move at :04, :14, :24, :34, :44, and :54 whenever sports events are under way.
• When events are in progress, scoring updates move every ten minutes in basketball, every time a goal is scored in hockey, and every time a run is scored in baseball.
• Instant reporting of period and final scores in major league and major college games.
• Half-hourly scorecard whenever games are in progress.
• State AP SportsWatch and SportsMinute summaries.
• National AP SportsWatch summaries three times a day.
• NEW National AP Sports Right Now summaries up to eight times a day
• In-depth statistics on all major league sports: standings, scores, stats leaders, schedules.

Business

• Instant updates on state and national business and agribusiness developments, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• Immediate coverage of the important and interesting business and agribusiness stories, in print-style stories and voicer-length scripts.
• In-depth coverage of the biggest business stories, in print-style copy.
• Dow Jones and NASDAQ averages every half-hour.
• Reports on commodities, metals, the dollar, gold, peso, Canadian dollar and overseas markets.
• State AP BusinessMinutes and BusinessWatches.
• Four national AP BusinessMinutes.
• New AP Business Right Now summary twice a day.

Entertainment News

• Instant updates on state and national entertainment developments, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• Immediate coverage of important and interesting entertainment stories, in print-style stories and voicer-length scripts.

Lottery

• Lottery results.

Seasonal Features

• Tax Break, a series of income tax filing tips.
• Stocking Stuffers, a package of Christmas holiday features.
• Flashback, a year-end review of news and news-makers.

Planning Guide

• AP Coverage Rundown.
• AP Washington Daybook, a daily planning guide for coverage of the federal government and the Nation’s capital so members can monitor issues of special interest.
• State daybooks.
• State and national news advisories.