UPI Audio provided news material to radio stations.

He died at Walter Reed Hospital on May 24, 1959, at the age of 71 .< ref > UPI < Year in Review, http :// www. upi. com / Audio / Year_in_Review / Events-of-1959 / Death-of-John-Foster-Dulles / 12295509433704-3 /</ ref >

* Audio of Dag Hammarskjold's response to Russian pressure From UPI Audio Archives

* Vietnam 1966 From UPI Audio Archive

Originally named " UPI Audio ," the United Press International Radio Network was an audio actuality news service for radio and television stations from then-major wire service United Press International.

A late 1950's offshoot of UPI's television footage service, " UPI Movietone ," later known as United Press International Television News or UPITN, " UPI Audio ," began selling the sounds of newsmakers stripped from newsfilm, plus the voices of UPI reporters and stringers to client radio stations.

In the early 1970s, UPI Audio began offering a newscast at the top of the hour.

The service name was changed from UPI Audio to UPI Radio Network in 1983 to reflect the greater focus on live programming.

His involvement was quickly ruled out ; but an inexperienced wire service reporter ( Clyde Jabin of UPI by most accounts, Joe Frazier of AP by others ), rushing to meet an imminent deadline, confused the eliminated suspect's name with the pseudonym used by the hijacker.

As detailed in " Down to the Wire ", by Gordon and Cohen, cited below, Reuters did extensive due diligence and expressed an interest in parts of the UPI service, but did not wish to maintain it in full.

* In 1958 UPI created the first wire service audio network, an offshoot of the film service above.

On Friday, November 20, United Press International's ( UPI ) wire service reported that book values for used Edsels had declined by as much as $ 400 ( approximately $ 2, 800 in 2006 values ) based on condition and age immediately following the Ford press release.

UPI wire service story .</ ref > Rodgers had no specific memory of how he had been injured, remembering only that he had seen blindingly bright lights from a car pulling up behind him .< ref >" Show Business ," < i > The Milwaukee Journal </ i >, December 22, 1967, p. 10.

UPI wire service story .</ ref > This account was supported by the treating physicians who had first blamed the skull fracture on a beating ; by the latter part of December, they concluded that Rodgers had in fact fallen and that had caused his injuries .< ref >" New Disclosure Hints Rodgers Hurt By Fall ," < i > The Modesto Bee </ i >, December 20, 1967, p. C-9.

UPI wire service story .</ ref > Rodgers and his supporters still believe that one or more of the police officers beat him, although other observers find the evidence inconclusive.

UPI wire service story .</ ref > They had two children, Michael and Michelle.

* 1980 Illinois UPI Award for community service for The Black Tax

In 1907, Scripps created United Press Associations, later the UPI news service, from smaller regional news services.

In early 1966, UPI acquired the assets and key personnel of a similarly named ( but previously unrelated ) competing service, Radio Press International.

Out of that merger came an audio service that at its peak served more than a thousand U. S. radio stations and many foreign clients, including other networks such as NPR, RKO, Britain's Independent Radio News and even CNN in its early years when CNN, then headed by former UPI and UPTN executives Reese Schonfeld and Burt Reinhardt, effectively reunited UPI audio with UPITN video.

It is the model that then-rival wire service Associated Press also used when it followed UPI into the radio network field in the mid-1970's.

After a long period of changing ownerships, business models and bankruptcies, UPI declined into a shell of a news service by 1999, when its then-Saudi Arabian ownership was convinced by its handpicked CEO, Arnaud de Borchgrave, to exit the broadcasting business United Press had pioneered back in the 1930s.

For example, ringing 4 bells on UPI wire-service machines meant an " Urgent " message ; 5 bells was a " Bulletin "; and 10 bells was a FLASH, used only for very important news.

United Press International ( UPI ) is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century.

As either UP or UPI, the agency was among the largest newswire services in the world, competing domestically for about 90 years with the Associated Press and internationally with AP, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

UP ( and later UPI ) became a common training ground for generations of journalists.

Yet, UP / UPI became a training ground for generations of journalists.

But the mistake dogged UP / UPI for generations.

In its heyday, newspapers typically paid UPI about half what they paid AP in the same cities for the same services: At one point, for example, the Chicago Sun-Times paid AP $ 12, 500 a week, but UPI only $ 5, 000 ; the Wall Street Journal paid AP $ 36, 000 a week, but UPI only $ 19, 300.

Smith and UPI won a Pulitzer Prize for this reporting.

Scripps ' heirs, the Scripps company, which had been underwriting UPI's expenses at a loss for at least two decades, began trying transfer control of UPI in the early 1980s.

Ruhe and Geissler obtained UPI for the nominal price of $ 1 and were given a Scripps loan of $ 5 million, which was never repaid.

Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of UPI and its predecessor agencies, storing them underground in Pennsylvania and digitizing them for licensing, frequently without any notation of their UPI origins.

In August, 2011 Corbis announced a deal with AP to distribute each other's photos to their clients, effectively combining the pre-1983 UPI library with that of its former main rival for some marketing purposes.

Mario Vázquez Raña, a Mexican media magnate, with a nominal American minority partner, Houston real estate developer Joseph Russo, purchased UPI out of bankruptcy for $ 40 million, losing millions during his short tenure, and firing numerous high level staff.

In early 1991, Infotechnology filed for bankruptcy, announced layoffs at UPI and sought to terminate certain employee benefits in an attempt to keep UPI afloat.

Later that year, UPI filed for bankruptcy, asking for relief from $ 50 million in debt so that it could be sale-able.

In 1992, a group of Saudi investors, ARA Group International ( AGI ), bought the bankrupt UPI for $ 4 million.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.

The rump UPI thus sold the client list of its still-significant radio network and broadcast wire to its former rival, the AP.

De Borchgrave maintained that " what was brilliant pioneering work on the part of UPI prior to World War II, with radio news, is now a static quantity and sofar as I'm concerned, certainly doesn't fit into my plans for the future.

The rump UPI thus sold the client list of its still-significant radio network and broadcast wire to its former rival, the AP.

Those characters included T ' Toot, a retired Indian fighter ; the Crazy Professor, an inventor and graduate emeritus of UPI ( University of Pecan Island ); Tante Baseline, owner of the Anse La Butte Swamp Gumbo Factory ; Joycie, a female filling station attendant " who's the world's champion dual-wheel semi-trailer flat-tire fixer "; The Headless Man, who " sent his head out to be cleaned and it was accidentally sent to the Avery Island Pickle Factory instead " and lived in the locked cabin of Polycarp's boat ; Doctor Rollingstone, " the hipster swamp doctor who has a transistor radio stuck in his stethoscope "; King Simon, " the duly elected boss of the swamp.

Unlike most commercial radio networks, which usually paid local stations to air their programming ( and commercials ), UPI charged stations cash for its broadcast services, allowing them to sell their own advertising within or adjacent to UPI broadcasts.

The rump UPI sold its client list of its radio network and broadcast wire to its former rival, the AP.