The AP NewsPower news wire is a prime resource for news and information programming.

AP NewsPower is a fully scripted news wire written in easy-to-read broadcast style. It includes national and international news, weather, sports, entertainment and business from your home state, and from two adjacent states, so you get expanded coverage without committing resources to fringe areas.

Benefits and Options
Planning guides
Bulletins
News
Weather
Sports
Business
Entertainment news
Lottery
Seasonal features
Selectable

Benefits and Options:

• AP NewsPower is a selectable service, so you can tailor it to your station's specific needs.
• News from your home state and two others.
• National and international news.
• STYLE: Stand-alone stories in broadcast style and ready-to-air summaries and headlines.
• HOURS: 24 hours.
• DELIVERY: Via high-speed satellite circuits delivered to AP NewsCenter, ENPS, AP NewsDesk 2000 , other compatible software or printer.

Planning Guides

• State daybooks.
• State and national news advisories.

Bulletins

• News and sports bulletins and urgents; and weather bulletins, 24 hours a day.

News

• Instant updates on state and national news, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• State AP NewsMinutes.
• Longer state AP NewsWatch summaries.
• National AP NewsMinutes every hour, 24 hours a day.
• National AP NewsWatch summaries four times a day.
• Separate, stand-alone stories in broadcast style.
• Hourly AP News Agendas providing national roundups of the hour's top stories.

Weather

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

Sports

• State AP SportsWatch and AP SportsMinute summaries.
• National AP SportsWatch summaries three times a day and six national AP SportsMinutes daily.
• Game-in-progress, separates and stand-alone stories in broadcast style.
• Frequent game-in-progress and final scores immediately.
• The Sports Log, a list of scores, schedules, players statistics, and standings.

Business

• Instant updates on state and national business and agribusiness developments, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• State AP BusinessMinutes and BusinessWatches.
• Four national AP BusinessMinutes.
• Longer national AP BusinessWatch summaries twice a day.
• Separate, stand-alone stories in broadcast style.
• The Sunriser, a daily wrap-up of agriculture news for farmers and consumers, and other farm markets coverage.
• Dow Jones and NASDAQ averages every half hour plus other financial market reports.

Entertainment News

• Morning and afternoon packages of entertainment news, features, and kickers, including:
• Today in History: Highlights, birthdays, and a thought for the day from this day in history.
• Today in Entertainment History: Music, Film and TV highlights, along with celebrity birthdays from this day in history.
• Segue: What's hot and what's not in world of entertainment. Exclusive AP celebrity interviews.
• Box Office: Weekend Box Office figures, each Tuesday morning, from Exhibitor Relations.
• Nielsen Ratings: Each Tuesday, as soon as they're released, a story on the stop TV shows from the previous week.
• Today's Talks: Who's on today's talk shows, and what they're talking about.
• Cooler Copy: The best of the bizarre, the humorous and the unusual from the previous 24 hours.

Lottery

• Lottery results.

Seasonal Features

• Tax Break, a series of income tax filing tips.
• Flashback, a year-end review of news and newsmakers.
• Seasonal sports previews.

Selectable

• AP NewsPower is a selectable service, so you can choose which kinds of information you want to receive. Menu changes are free and only a phone call away to AP's customer service department.
• In addition to news from your home state, you can receive news, weather, sports and business from two adjacent states at no extra charge. You can also substitute Canadian news for one of the two adjacent states; in some instances; a circuit charge may apply.
• Other AP news wires and state broadcast reports are available for an additional charge.