- WAND
- Washington Audio News Distribution A service operated by ABC Radio that
provides raw audio from news events happening in the Washington area. NPR, and all radio
organizations with the exception of CBS, is a member of WAND. This is a major source of
live event audio.
A companion service, PAND, carries audio of
the President when he travels within the United States.
More information is available for WAND.
- WAR POOL
- The informal name for the Pentagon Radio Pool. Administration of the pool rotates among
the various Radio Networks.
- WATS
- Wide Area Telephone Service A long distance telephone service where the
called party pays the charges available from AT&T, MCI and Sprint among others.
- White Line
- A transmission facility shared by all radio networks to feed pool audio and unilateral
reports from a very remote location. Generally used for the coverage of the President when
he leaves the country. Pool audio has the highest priority, unilateral reports are fed on
a first-come-first-served basis.
There is usually a backfeed associated with this type
of service that allows any of the member organizations to speak back to the remote
location.
Administration of the White Line is determined by the assignment of the TV Pool; CBS
TV/CBS Radio, ABC TV/ABC Radio, NBC TV/Westwood and CNN/NPR. AP, UPI and Standard do not
have the resources to pull off this kind of an effort, and VOA
can't do it due to political reasons.
- WTN
- World Television News A TV News Service originating in London,
incorperating material from ITN, resold and relayed by a company in New York. The material
is comprised mostly of Newspots and other short format pieces. Their big advantage at the
moment is that they have an operating Uplink in Bagdhad.
More information is available
for WTN.
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