Feature Story News

Feature Story News is an international broadcast news agency providing international news coverage, live reports and anchored radio news bulletins to television and radio stations around the world. Known as "FSN", the company is headquartered in Washington DC, and operates 14 full-time news bureaus throughout the United States, in Europe and Africa. In 2008, an FSN team won an Emmy Award for its coverage of events in Pakistan for America's PBS.

FSN was founded in 1992 by former ITN reporter Simon Marks. The company provides ready-to-air TV and radio news material plus production facilities to many global TV networks, radio stations and web-base publishers. In addition to its studios in Washington DC, the company has offices, correspondents and studios in Manhattan, United Nations, London, Brussels, Moscow, Orlando, San Francisco, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, Kampala and Johannesburg.

Television clients

Television news reports are supplied to the following broadcasters:

PBS NewsHour
Fox News Channel
Bloomberg
France 24
CCTV (China)
Channel News Asia
Al Jazeera
E News Channel
Jewish News One
UTV Ireland

News agency Asian News International also uses FSN television reports

Radio clients

FSN correspondents supply reports to the following radio stations and networks:

Vatican Radio
DW Radio
FM4
SABC
Radio New Zealand
Radio France International
LBC 97.3
World Radio Switzerland
Radio Frontier
Pacifica Radio
Arabian Radio Network in Dubai
Tribute FM in Libya
ICRT in Taiwan
Voice of Nigeria

The AIR News radio news agency uses FSN audio and broadcasts FSN bulletins during overnight hours
FSN also supplies audio to the SRN News Christian news agency in the United States

Radio news bulletins

FSN broadcasts hourly world news radio bulletins 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday. At weekends, a weekly News Review bulletin in broadcast.

Bulletins are 30 seconds, 3 minutes or 5 minutes long and are distributed along with news cuts and packages via FTP.

Bulletin client stations

Many LPFM, college, community and online stations use FSN.

UNITED KINGDOM 30 second headline bulletins can be heard on WRN and three minute bulletins on Radio Faza in Nottingham and Destiny 105 in Oxford

NETHERLANDS Radio Seagull transmits hourly bulletins (Mon-Fri).

CANARY ISLANDS Kiss FM in Tenerife.

OMAN Hi FM in Muscat.

NEW ZEALAND World FM in Tawa.

FINLAND Radio Rapu in Helsinki, Finland.^[1]

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