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Benefits and features of AP NewsPower
AP NewsPower
The AP NewsPower wire is a prime resource for information and news, regardless of your station’s format. A fully scripted wire written in ready-to-air broadcast style, AP NewsPower includes news and weather from your station’s home state and two adjacent states. You get expanded coverage without committing personnel to fringe areas.
In addition, AP NewsPower carries morning and afternoon jock-prep packages, national and international stories, entertainment news, and complete sports and business coverage, including in-progress scores and market reports. It's selectable by category of news and can be tailored to satisfy your station’s needs.
Menu changes are free and take only a phone call to AP’s Customer Service Department. In addition to news from its home state, a station receives news and weather from one or two adjacent states at no extra charge. The member can substitute Canadian news from Broadcast News Ltd. for one of the two adjacent states. In some of these instances, a circuit charge may apply. Other AP wires and extra state broadcast reports are available for an additional charge.
Benefits and Options:
Levels of service
News
Show Prep
Weather
Sports
Business
Entertainment
Lottery
Seasonal Features
Choose from three levels of service options with AP NewsPower:
- NewsPower Mornings
- NewsPower DriveTimes
- NewsPower 24 Hours
- News and sports from your home state and two others, plus national and world news.
- Voicer/reader-length scripts, capsule reports, in-depth summaries.
- AP’s prep package, including Cooler Copy.
- Seasonal features.
- Weather and bulletins 24 hours.
- NEW AP Right Now, a frequently updated summary of current news, with both separate-length and shorter stories.
- Software for handling text and audio.
- News, sports, prep, entertainment, business, and weather bulletins and urgents 24 hours a day.
- Instant updates on urgent state and national news, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
- Immediate coverage of the important and interesting stories, in voicer-length scripts.
- Coverage of state and national watercooler stories, in voicer-length scripts.
- State NewsMinutes.
- National NewsMinutes every hour, 24 hours a day.
- NEW AP Coverage Rundown, a look ahead at what stories AP Broadcast is covering and how we plan to cover them.
- Cooler Copy - a collection of the best watercooler 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.
- 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 schedule.
- 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, video, movies.
- 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 and tropical weather advisories.
- 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 voicer-length scripts
- NEW AP Scores on the Fours -- scorecards that will move at :04, :14, :24, :34, :44, and :54 whenever sports events are under way.
- Instant reporting of period and final scores in major league and major college sports
- Half-hourly national scorecard whenever games are in progress
- State AP sports summaries
- NEW National AP Sports Right Now summaries four to five times a day
- Six to eight national AP SportsMinutes daily
- Basic statistics on all major league sports: standings, scores, stats leaders, schedules.
- Instant updates on urgent 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 voicer-length scripts.
- Dow Jones and NASDAQ averages every half hour.
- Reports on commodities, metals, the dollar, gold, peso, Canadian dollar and overseas markets.
- State AP BusinessMinutes.
- Four national AP BusinessMinutes.
- NEW AP Business Right Now summaries twice a day.
- Instant updates on urgent state and national entertainment developments, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
- Immediate coverage of the important and interesting entertainment stories, in voicer-length scripts.
- Lottery results
- Tax Break, a series of income tax tips.
- Flashback, a year-end review of news and news-makers
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Crisis Coverage from AP NewsPower
Save money while customizing information access for multiple stations in a market cluster.
NewsPower features flexible pricing and packaging, including discounts for multiple licenses in a single market.
Pay for only what you need, by format and by daypart.
Multiple daypart options available, with 24-hour crisis protection.
Consolidate your sources and reduce your costs. Make the most efficient use of your budget by using a one-stop solution for information needs. Instead of separate sources for prep, audio and text, you can get it all from AP.
Full prep package includes entertainment, sports, weird stories, music coverage (by format), special events including MTV Music Awards, Oscars, and internet entertainment.
NewsPower text stories include links to related audio.
Eliminate time wasted by staff surfing the internet for material and minimize risk to station management regarding intellectual property abuse.
AP NewsPower wire includes a full prep package.
Air talent can access their audio during remotes or on-location shows.
Flexible delivery with online Newstracker access.
Save time by eliminating the need to search for audio.
NewsPower stories contain links to audio available via the PrimeCuts audio service.
Maintain radio‘s advantage of being ahead of print for fresh material. Your staff has the latest entertainment story today, before it shows up in the newspaper tomorrow.
Around-the-clock updates, and real-time delivery through AP’s KU-band satellite system.
AP staff saves your staff time with up-to-date coverage of issues of regional and local interest.
State News Report delivers news from your state plus two adjacent states.
No waste of duplicating effort to cover scheduled events. With contacts at the local AP bureau, you can better manage editorial resources saving time and money.
AP bureau staff covers stories and gathers news.
Reduce risk and relax - your material is accurate and licensed for use on your station.
AP staff creates original content and verifies accuracy of information and sources.
Use sports coverage to create new sales opportunities for the staff, without expending additional resources to cover multiple games and venues.
National and state sports reports delivered in an easy to use, accurate and timely format.
No need for a third party weather service. Save money with accurate and timely weather information customized to your local area.
NewsPower includes weather coverage around the clock, regardless of daypart package.
Sleep easy knowing content used by your staff is verified and credible.
Professional editorial quality control ensures accuracy.
AP technology solutions save you money and deliver integrated, easy to use tools to streamline the production process. No proprietary hardware needed. AP technology solutions are compatible with any Windows-based automation or production system.
AP technology for radio stations includes AP NewsDesk 4.1 wire and script management, AP SoundDesk audio editor, and the AP PrimeServer automatic audio delivery option with PrimeCuts.
There’s no need to change your overall production system and retrain staff if you are happy with the technology you have in place.
NewsPower is compatible with standard news production workflows.
Focus your election-season efforts on covering a variety of angles and make the most efficient use of your staff and talent at election time.
Real time election results. AP counts votes to the county level. Accurate, reliable election coverage through NewsPower.
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