NOTE: To review many other databases in this collection, check this link.

All of the major tv news networks in the U.S. offer “internal” alerting services to let both networked owned and operated stations as well as affilates to what’s coming up in terms of breaking news on the network and what stories they’ll be “feeding” stations in hourly roundups.

As far as we know, in all but one case, access to this information is only available to the stations themselves. However, CBS News offers access to its CBS Newspath (its service for affiliates) on the open web.

In most cases, you’ll see what stations are being fed, often with the text of the script. In real-time, breaking news situations, you can often see stories develop from a “behind the scenes” viewpoint. Interesting and maybe even an educational tool for journalism students. To access: go to http://www.newspath.cbs.com/ and look for the “Newspath Wires” links. Pay special attention (perfect for an alerting tool like Website-Watcher) to the Advisories (for example, what’s the rundown for CBS Evening News) and Urgent links. Past entries can be searched.

NOTE: To review many other databases in this collection, check this link.

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