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25: 1518: 1513: 1456: 1432: 209:, which usually paid local stations to air their programming (and commercials), UPI charged stations cash for its broadcast services, allowing them to sell their own advertising within or adjacent to UPI broadcasts. It is the model that then-rival wire service 223:
After a long period of changing ownerships, business models and bankruptcies, UPI declined into a shell of a news service by 1999, when its then-Saudi Arabian ownership was convinced by its handpicked CEO,
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Out of that merger came an audio service that at its peak served more than a thousand U.S. radio stations and many foreign clients, including other networks such as
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In early 1966, UPI acquired the assets and key personnel of a similarly named (but previously unrelated) competing service,
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Soon thereafter, it added live sportscasts and business reports. Among UPI Audio's sportscasters of the late 1970s were
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It was originally done on a piecemeal basis, with UPI's wire for broadcasters, known as the
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and it moved several times a day. As the operation grew, it was expanded from dial-up
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In the early 1970s, UPI Audio began offering a newscast at the top of the hour.
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carrying lists of available material. Over time, that list came to be called a
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also used when it followed UPI into the radio network field in the mid-1970s.
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in its early years when CNN, then headed by former UPI and UPTN executives
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This article about a radio show or program in the United States is a
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was fed at specific times, usually at ten minutes past the hour.
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Book Title The International News Services (February 12, 1986)
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UNIPRESS: United Press International-Covering the 20th Century
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Harnett, Richard & Ferguson, Billy G. (January 1, 2003).
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A late 1950s offshoot of UPI's television footage service,
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in 1983 to reflect the greater focus on live programming.
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began selling the sounds of newsmakers stripped from
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United Press International
United Press International Television News
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Independent Radio News
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"UPI Radio: 40 Years Of Sound"
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