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All News Channel (ANC) was an American
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news channel that was owned by CONUS Communications, a
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and
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. The channel was carried mainly on
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(and prior to that, USSB, which was folded into DirecTV in 1999). All News Channel's programming was also syndicated to
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s across the
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. The channel was headquartered in
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, out of the facility of Hubbard's
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(channel 5), the
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affiliate for the Minneapolis–St. Paul market. The channel ceased broadcasting on September 30, 2002.


History

All News Channel was launched on January 1, 1989, through a partnership formed between Viacom and Hubbard called CONUS Communications (CONUS being an
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for
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), which included a news video-sharing service for local television stations nationwide, particularly those affiliated with a major broadcast network. Nearly all of ANC's video came from these stations, who in turn utilized satellite news-gathering trucks that had been invented, built and sold by Hubbard beginning in 1984. CONUS also maintained a small news bureau in
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It was the second nationwide challenger to established cable news channel
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after the
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(SNC), as well as the first since SNC folded in 1983. All-News Channel also produced news content for third parties. From shortly after its inception until the early 1990s, All News Channel produced daily news updates that aired on
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(at the time, owned by ANC co-parent Viacom) during the
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's promo breaks. The channel also produced similar updates for
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from 1993 to 2000; the news briefs were originally produced at
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in
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(which had been producing other news services for parent Group W), but management and newscast changes at that station caused the network to move production. From 1991 to 1994,
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(also owned by Viacom) carried All News Channel-produced interstitials during the morning block ''Hits, News & Weather''. ANC also produced the syndicated morning business news program ''
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'', before its national distribution rights were transferred to
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shortly after ANC's shut down. All News Channel was never profitable throughout its history and could not withstand the challenges of
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and
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(ironically, Rupert Murdoch made an offer to buy ANC from the Hubbards to serve as the cornerstone for what would become FNC; the Hubbards refused to sell), which pushed ANC to fifth place in the ratings among all cable news channels (behind
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). It benefited in part by being the only news channel on the USSB satellite service (USSB, as with ANC, was owned by Hubbard Broadcasting); after USSB merged into DirecTV, it was then one of five such channels, and it no longer had the explicit backing of its satellite provider. The channel shut down on September 30, 2002, with veteran anchor Stan Turner thanking those watching and those behind the scenes; stations that carried ANC have since replaced the channel's programming with syndicated and/or paid programming (especially common with NBC stations as the network no longer has an overnight newscast since ''
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'' ended in 1998) or have expanded their clearance of overnight news programs supplied by their affiliated network.


Format

ANC aired up to five live half-hour newscasts each day (airing at 4:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. Central Time, with an occasional sixth at 4:30 a.m.), with each edition being repeated until the next live newscast aired; however, exceptions to this set scheduling were made for major breaking news stories. If mistakes were made during the live broadcasts, a corrected segment would be produced (sometimes live) for the repeat broadcasts. ANC operated on a fixed schedule, where each news block ran the same length every day, and commercials (which consisted mainly of
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advertisements, and by the mid-1990s, promos for USSB's – and later DirecTV's – slate of general entertainment and premium channels; the latter type of ads were also seen on some stations that carried the channel's programming at times) aired at the same time every day. The on-air talent was mostly exclusive to All News Channel, though some anchors from KSTP also served as ANC anchors, most notably
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; KSTP producers also recorded weather segments for All News Channel until 2002. Later, ANC show producers voiced their own weather segments, along with other stories. Broadcast television stations in many markets carried All News Channel programming during the overnight hours in lieu of
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, or scheduling
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s or other
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to fill overnight and early morning timeslots (similar to the overnight carriage of
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that was also common among stations during the same timeframe). In later years, as
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, ABC and
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launched their own
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programs, ANC programming continued to air on stations affiliated with those networks as a complement to these programs and also to provide news programming in weekend time periods when network overnight newscasts were not airing. For a time in the early 1990s, KSTP aired ANC programming overnights in half-hour blocks, alongside local news reports, branded as ''
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All Night''. In addition, since ANC's newscasts never contained any copyrighted music (by design), stations broadcasting the ANC feed could stay on the air longer without increasing their
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fees.


External links


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References

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