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3 unusual facts about Independent Radio News


Independent Radio News

It supplied news to its own London Radio stations (formerly LBC), plus Scot FM, Heart FM, and Virgin Radio.

The 11:00 bulletin on Remembrance Sunday includes coverage of the national two minutes silence at the Cenotaph in London.

United Press International Radio Network

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 NPR, RKO, Britain's Independent Radio News and even CNN in its early years when CNN, then headed by former UPI and UPTN executives Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt, effectively reunited UPI audio with UPITN video.


New Sound Radio

In addition to this, there is a small studio and production facility located elsewhere in the county, this facility will be primarily used to produce local news and weather reports, all National and International reports will however come directly from Independent Radio News in central London.


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