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Welcome to USA News Network

Dallas, Texas -- Electronic Readerboard companies can provide you with great equipment. But USA News Network of Dallas has taken the Electronic Readerboard industry a huge step forward. We actually manage your complete Electronic Readerboard content. Founded in 1982, USA News Network operates a news and advertising network by remotely programming Electronic Readerboards.

Our Electronic Readerboard customers are: elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, colleges, universities, banks, credit unions, manufacturers, municipal governments, major corporations, hospitals and many more.

College Radio stations expressed a need to USA News Network in 1991 and we began delivery of a news and information report for college radio stations. The report is available via email and fax. In addition, an audiocast is provided by our affiliate station, WPSC-FM, Wayne, New Jersey, on the campus of William Paterson University.

Original Corporate Headquarters crew in 1982

Schools

For more information about our School Division, click the button below.


Banks

For more information about our Bank Financial Division, click the button below.


Our Story

July 14th, 1982

On this date in USA News Network history...WE WERE BORN!

Our first readerboard was up and running at Town East Mall in Mesquite, Texas on July 14th. It was a 99-inch wooden-encased, single-line Lewis Lektronix LED with 4-inch high letters. It weighed nearly 60 pounds and cost $2,500, which in today's dollars would be about $5,000.

Originally, the board was operated by a portable keyboard with a ribbon-wire attachment. Within a few weeks, it was being operated remotely by an Apple II computer using a single-disk floppy drive and a 300-baud internal modem. The readerboard started off with just ads from businesses in Town East Mall. Later, news, sports, entertainment and business news were added.

Back at our offices, the newsroom was a 10x10-foot windowless office near Stemmons and LBJ in Dallas, Texas. Back then you could still smoke in the office...and people did. But to the jubilation of the non-smokers and the equipment, that practice was soon banned.

Member Associations:
* National Independent Bank Equipment Systems Association
* National Association of College Broadcasters
* Dallas/Ft. Worth Film Critic's Association - 2001 - 2005
* Charter member of the North Texas Film Critic's Association - 2005 - Present


USA News Network operates Readerboards from coast-to-coast with news headlines, instructional
content, and campus announcements.  Pictured above is one of our 64-inch tri-color Alpha 4200c
models at Oakhurst Elementary School in Fort Worth, Texas.