Difference between wire services and syndicates service.

Both wire services and syndicate services are important support services of mass media. Still there are some differences between these two services.

The difference between wire services and syndicates is that, Wire services deal with hard and soft news whereas syndicate services mainly deals with entertaining and opinion materials.

Another difference between these two media support services is that wire services distribute their materials to both print and broadcast media but syndicates mainly deals and distribute to the print media.

As mass media like newspapers, radio, television etc. subscribe to wire services, they do also subscribe to syndicate services.