The Main Street Wire is a self-updating box of statewide Ohio headlines from NewsForce247 that any Ohio organization can run on its website — free forever, no ads inside, stop anytime.
Your readers want to know what’s happening across Ohio. Your staff is already stretched covering your own town. The Wire fills a box on your site with fresh statewide headlines all day, every day — state government, weather, elections, Ohio sports, and the stories your readers are hearing about from two counties over — and it costs you nothing.
This box is the Wire — live on this page
What you’re looking at below is the actual Main Street Wire, running right here. On your site it looks the same: our name on it, your readers reading it.
The three promises
Free forever. No fee, no trial, no catch. We supply the news; you supply the space.
No ads inside, ever. The Wire carries NewsForce247 news and branding only. Your site stays your site.
Your stories can run statewide. Partners submit local stories; verified stories run on NewsForce247 with the partner’s name credited.
How it works
- Tell us you’re in — we’ll send your embed code. It’s minted for your organization alone.
- Your webmaster pastes the code once. About two minutes.
- Statewide headlines flow to your site around the clock, and your local submissions get a path to a statewide audience.
Send us your story
Does your town have news the rest of Ohio should hear? A district decision, a local hero, a road finally reopening, a team doing something remarkable — send it our way. Your story comes to our newsroom, we check the facts the same way we check our own, and if it runs, it runs with your organization’s name on it — “Story submitted by [you].” We’ll email you the link so you can share it with your readers.
The terms, in plain English
- Free forever. Nobody pays anybody. There is no paid version of the Wire.
- Run it as supplied. You paste our one line of code and leave the box as it arrives — our name and links stay on it. (Your page around it is yours; style it however you like.)
- Run it wherever it fits. Homepage, news page, sidebar — one page or every page. Your call.
- Either side can end it anytime. You take the code off your site and you’re done. We can switch a module off from our side, too. No notice period, no penalty.
- The headlines are ours. NewsForce247 writes them and stands behind them; partners don’t edit them. If you ever see an error, tell us and we’ll fix it at the source — the fix flows to every site automatically.
- No ads in the box. Ever. The module carries our name and our own house announcements (our app, our newsletter, our radio stream) — never sponsor advertising.
- Stories you send us are yours to offer and ours to verify, edit for accuracy and length, and publish — or not. When a submitted story runs, your credit line runs with it.
- Who it’s for: Ohio news outlets, school districts, chambers of commerce, visitors bureaus, libraries, and local government and community sites. We review every site before a module is issued.
Get the Wire
Talk to Jack Bennett, Director of Partnerships — [email protected]. Tell us your site and where the box would run; we’ll check the site, mint your module, and send your one line of code with a one-paragraph install note. Most sites are live the same day.