Just wondering what folks are using for news broadcasts. I am running QNN at the TOH and it's an excellent 5 minute newscast. My only issue is, it is not available 24/7, only Mon-Fri 6A-6P PST.
Just wondering what folks are using for news broadcasts. I am running QNN at the TOH and it's an excellent 5 minute newscast. My only issue is, it is not available 24/7, only Mon-Fri 6A-6P PST.
Thanks.
I use FSN (Feature Story News) and QNN. FSN has excellent world coverage and overall excellent production, and are very reliable. QNN has good domestic news (as well as international news) but the production is sometimes weak, and sometimes their downloads contain the tails of their local programming. QNN is produced by a local AM in Monterey California.
FSN does charge - $15 per month, but they also give you access to individual sound bites if you want to build your own news cast and they have excellent longer form programming that I use on weekends. FSN contains no commercials
QNN is free, they do have commercials.
You can hear them both on my stream at www.AM1700.info (blatant plug there).
I have sent email recenlty to USA radio news, I am interested in adding them, but have not gotten a reply.
I just subscribed to the FSN service - looks and sounds good. I'm using Zara Radio, and created an event that fires at the top of the hour to play the latest stream (.mp3) file that they provide. I suppose it would be possible to write some software to download the latest update each time and then play it (and perhaps useful for archival purposes), but right now this is sufficient for my purposes. Does anyone know if FSN has the archived files available?
Batch file I have scheduled to get FSN once per hour:
You will need to download wget. http://www.christopherlewis.com/WGet/WGetFiles.htm
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echo off
REM Change this next line to match your content
REM directory for FSN.
cd c:contentfsn
REM For sanity, lets remove any FSN files that
REM already exist in the directory.
del FSNWorldNews.mp3
del FSNBulletin.mp3
del FSNHeadlines.mp3
REM Now lets use wget to get all three news files.
wget http://64.26.15.101/feeds/FSNWorldNews.mp3
wget http://64.26.15.101/feeds/FSNBulletin.mp3
wget http://64.26.15.101/feeds/FSNHeadlines.mp3
REM Go back to where we started.
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