The APTV News Wire provides in-depth coverage and speed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Combining the speed and scripted news of AP NewsPower with the in-depth resources of AP's print-style news and sports wires, the APTV News Wire gives you the full background on stories to develop new leads and new angles.

With APTV News Wire, 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. The APTV News Wire includes two additional newsroom research tools: The Planner and the Washington Daybook.

Benefits and Options
Four wires in one
Planning guides
Bulletins
News
Weather
Sports
Business
Entertainment news
Lottery
Seasonal features
Supplemental features

The APTV News Wire is selectable by news category so you can customize it to your newsroom's needs.

• AP's in-depth state news wire.
• AP's in-depth national and international news wires.
• The AP NewsPower news wire.
• The AP Sports wire.
• STYLE: Detailed, print style stories plus ready-to-air broadcast scripts and separates.
• HOURS: 24 hours daily.
• DELIVERY: Via high-speed satellite circuits to AP NewsCenter, ENPS, AP NewsDesk 2000 , other compatible software or printer.

Four Wires in One

APTV NewsWires 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 news wire; for summaries and headlines in easy-to-read broadcast style. You get national and international news, plus news, weather, sports and business from your home state and two adjacent states.
• The AP Sports Wire brings your station detailed stories, scores, statistics and standings. This complete information package provides comprehensive national and regional sports coverage. It is an excellent resource for game previews, post game shows and developing sports stories.

Planning Guides

• A listing of the major upcoming national and international events today, tomorrow, this month and the rest of the year.
• AP Washington Daybook, a daily planning guide of the nation's capital and federal government for monitoring issues of special interest for your viewers.
• State daybooks, planning guides for what's happening in your state and region, including state and national news advisories.

Bulletins

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

News

• Instant updates on state and national news, minute by minute, 24 hours a day.
• In-depth and headline coverage of state, national and international events.
• Adjacent state coverage (two states).
• 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.
• Hourly AP News Agendas providing national roundups of the top stories.

Weather

• Weather bulletins.
• Watches and warnings.
• State and zone forecasts, including 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.
• In-depth coverage of major sports stories in print-style copy.
• 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.
• Six national AP SportsMinutes daily.
• 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.
• Longer national AP BusinessWatch summaries twice a day.
• The Sunriser, a daily wrap-up of agriculture news for farmers and consumers.

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 the 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 top 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.

Lottery

• Lottery results.

Seasonal Features

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

Optional Supplemental Features

• For an additional charge, this package can be expanded to include other state news wires, Canadian news, Spanish-language news, AP specialty Alert Wires, AP's MegaSports, and AP's Financial news wire.