CNS Power Products
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Past examples of the products that CNS offers:

Los Angeles-area stories each day give subscribers a complete picture of Southern California. CNS has full-time reporters covering all the important beats, such as City Hall, County Supervisors, Criminal Courts, Federal Courts, Civil Courts and police headquarters around the clock. General assignment reporters and highly respected desk editors round out the Los Angeles-area staff. There is also a complete reporting staff in San Diego covering all the top San Diego stories. And, of course, CNS reporters are always focused on the stars and the business of Hollywood's entertainment industry.

On a regular basis, CNS summarizes the top broadcast headlines.


The CNS Budget is the "Bible" of more than a hundred Southern California news operations. Despite its name, it is not a financial document. It is probably the world's most extensive regional listing of upcoming news events. Every morning, editors from the nation's largest newspapers, TV and radio stations rely on it to decide which stories to cover. Each Budget item lists everything an assignment desk needs to know before coverage decisions are made. But the CNS Budget is also invaluable for non-media business and government subscribers. This is the key to unlock the otherwise secret plans for upcoming news events that may directly affect you. CNS runs hundreds of Budget items each day. There is the Los Angeles Budget, Entertainment Budget, Orange County Budget and San Diego Budget.
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In addition to daily Budgets showing what's going to happen on following days, CNS runs "week-ahead" Budgets for planning each week in advance. There's a Los Angeles "Week-Ahead" Budget and a San Diego "Week-Ahead" Budget. There is also a Los Angeles Courts "Week-Ahead" Budget and a San Diego Courts "Week-Ahead" Budget. They list upcoming news-intensive court cases. These "week-ahead" Budgets generally run Thursday and Friday evenings for the following weeks.

As just about everyone in the world knows by now, major news in Southern California can break without warning at any time. CNS immediately transmits news of these major breaking stories with LA Advisories and San Diego Advisories. These are short notices to subscribers with instant alerts; longer stories will then be run to provide increasing amounts of detail as each story warrants. Advisories are also carried to alert the media to any upcoming news event that has been scheduled on short notice, without time to be reserved for the Budget.

Sample Stories
  • LA Stories
  • San Diego Stories
  • Broadcast Headlines: LA
  • Broadcast Headlines: San Diego

    Advisories
  • LA Advisories
  • San Diego Advisories
  • Budgets
  • Los Angeles Budget
  • Entertainment Budget
  • Orange County Budget
  • San Diego Budget

    Week-ahead Budgets
  • LA "Week-Ahead" Budget
  • Orange County "Week-Ahead" Budget
  • San Diego "Week-Ahead" Budget
  • LA Courts "Week-Ahead" Budget
  • San Diego Courts "Week-Ahead" Budget
  • All above links to CNS materials are for demonstration only and may not be used for any purpose whatsoever,
    including publication, broadcast or retransmission. CNS materials are from past news cycles and are not current.



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