News

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At a time when stations and networks are cutting costs and eliminating resources, the Arizona and California News Radio Networks offer local radio stations an hourly newscast with a major market sound. Staffed with veteran anchors and reporters, highly produced, and loaded with sound from the newsmakers themselves, listeners will be brought up to date on the hour’s top news stories, in an entertaining undistracting way.

Designed to be compatible with any format, these newscasts can stand alone as a quick update in a music format, or as a complement to a local newscast in a talk or all-service format.

Twice recognized with the prestigious "Best Newscast" award from the National Association of State Radio Networks, Arizona and California News Radio newscasts are delivered via satellite and online with multiple feeds each hour to maximize convenience. Offered on a barter basis, newscasts are :60 in length, with an adjacent :60 spot. Arizona News Radio also offers several longer-form, six-minute, self-contained newscasts each weekday morning and afternoon.


In these turbulent times, news changes by the minute. Arizona and California News Radio ensure that listeners don't go an hour without the latest information they want and need to know about.

Our Staff

Jeff Scott anchors and oversees operations of the Arizona and California News Radio Networks.  A 25-year veteran of radio news, Jeff previously spent 12 years at  Phoenix's KTAR, where he was a reporter, drive-time anchor, and News Director.  Jeff spent five years as Managing Editor at Fox-owned KSAZ-TV in Phoenix before joining Arizona/California News Radio in 2000.  Jeff and the KTAR staff won a Peabody award for the station's coverage of the impeachment of Governor Evan Mecham, and he recently served as President of the National Association of State Radio Networks. 

 

 



 

John Gilliland is a 20-year veteran of radio news.  Having previously worked in St. Louis, Missouri; Albany, New York; and Albuquerque, New Mexico.  John is also an accomplished writer, whose pieces have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and online publications.  He joined Skyview Networks in 2005, and anchors the P.M. drive newscasts on the California News Radio Network, in addition to filing reports from the field for Arizona and California News Radio.

 

 

 


 

 

Barbara Villa has been in radio news for well over two decades.  After beginning her career in San Diego, where she worked at KSDO radio and KGTV (ABC) television, Barbara began a long run at Phoenix's KTAR.  There, she covered the Mecham impeachment, the visit to Phoenix of Pope John Paul the Second, and other major Arizona and California stories.  She joined Skyview Networks in November of 2005.

 

 


 

 

George Tanner, who is the founder of the Arizona News Radio Network, anchors the Network's afternoon newscast.  In addition, he compiles material for the Network's website, which distributes audio to many of the Network's affiliates.  George has spent his entire 30-year career in the Phoenix area, working as a news anchor and reporter, sports commentator, and talk show host.

 




 

Hanna Gutmann provides exclusive material to the Arizona and California News Radio Networks from her post in Washington, D.C.  Covering politics on Capitol Hill for more than a quarter century, Hanna is a familiar presence in the halls of Congress, where she covers key developments affecting both states.  She is often sought out by key members of Congress who know that Hanna's microphone will bring their voice to an audience that includes their constituents.  Hanna's reports can be heard on the network's newscasts throughout the week.


 

News Room

Sample current Skyview news segments produced by our award winning journalists.