VirtualNewsCenter® exists to bring you and your listeners quality local news presented on-air and online . . . for less than you’d expect. Survey after survey have shown your listeners crave local content that’s relevant, and interesting to them.
VirtualNewsCenter® pioneered the field of remotely produced local radio news in 2005. Let us show you how to improve the quality of your station’s local news while delivering 60% or more directly to the bottom line. Plus, many stations may be eligible for barter! *Certain market restrictions may apply.
- Complete On-Air Local Newscasts
- News Stories Assigned by Local Staff if desired
- Web-only News Content
- Custom Local Weather in partnership with The Storm Report
- Local traffic reports
- Local Sports Reports
- Local Business or Entertainment Reports
- Public Affairs programming
- …what can we deliver for you?
All service levels include
- VirtualNewsCenter® becomes part of the news flow in your market. We get on your local email distribution and fax lists. You have a private email address that is available to capture story ideas, news releases, tips and the like. As part of our introduction to your market’s news makers, we encourage them to include us on their news release lists.
- Branding to meet the presentation and positioning goals of your station or cluster. Multiple-station branding is available if needed.
- The VirtualNewsCenter® delivery system. More reliable than most satellite-delivered services, our fully-redundant, multi-city server infrastructure has better than 99.999% uptime. Your newscasts are delivered by FTP or web download in WAV or MP3 format, named as your automation system expects them to be for automatic import.
- A strong talent bench: Forget the hassles of filling for vacation or sick days! We also have a diversified selection of voices that can meet your station’s image.
- News for your website (Facebook, X, etc): We post the local stories produced in each market to a website we host. The stories can also be posted to your main website, Facebook page, or X feed. Our publishing back-end supports direct publishing to most of the open-source website management systems, or you’re welcome to pull stories via RSS. Stories posted can include text and actualities.