United Press International

===UP/UPI Newspictures, Newsfilm and Audio/Radio Network===

United Press had no direct [[wirephoto]] service until 1952, when it absorbed co-owned [[ACME Newspictures]], under pressure from parent company Scripps to better compete with AP's news and photo services.<ref name="newspictures"/>

By that time, UP was also deeply involved with the newer visual medium of [[television]]. In 1948, it entered into a partnership with [[20th Century Fox]] subsidiary Fox [[Movietone News]] to shoot newsfilm for television stations. That service, United Press Movietone, or UPMT, was a pioneer in newsfilm syndication and numbered among its clients major US and foreign networks and local stations, including for many years the early TV operation of [[ABC News]]. In subsequent decades, it underwent several changes in partnerships and names, becoming best known as [[United Press International Television News]] (UPITN). Senior UPITN executives later helped [[Ted Turner]] create [[CNN]], with its first two presidents, [[Reese Schonfeld]] and [[Burt Reinhardt]], coming from UPITN ranks.

The UPI Audio actuality service for radio stations, created in 1958 and later renamed the [[United Press International Radio Network]], was a spinoff from the newsfilm service and eventually provided news material to more than a thousand radio stations and US and foreign networks, including [[NPR]].<ref name="audio"/>