Posted on 03/24/2026 6:05:58 AM PDT by Twotone
CBS News will shut down its long-running radio news service on May 22, bringing to a close nearly a century of continuous broadcasting and signaling a broader shift in how the organization delivers news.
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The network said the closure reflects economic challenges and changes in how audiences consume audio news.
“Radio is woven into the fabric of CBS News and that’s always going to be part of our history,” CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss told her staff, according to The Associated Press.
“I want you to know that we did everything we could, including before I joined the company, to try and find a viable solution to sustain the radio operation.”
The layoffs are expected to affect 6 percent of its workforce, or more than 60 people, and the radio division will be among the most significantly affected.
CBS News Radio currently distributes content to about 700 affiliate stations nationwide, including its flagship “World News Roundup,” widely regarded as the longest-running network newscast in the United States.
The network’s radio division traces its origins to 1927, when it served as the foundation for what would become CBS’s broader news operation. In its early decades, the service played a central role in shaping broadcast journalism, delivering live reports during pivotal global events.
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Good riddance! Take the others with you.
One hundred years of propaganda brainwashing the American public...
I think they discovered that their talking heads can keep a straight face at all times.
Radio is an unprofitable format especially when you have turned off all your potential listeners.
Which reminds me - I saw NPR Radio on my car’s sat radio yesterday. I thought sat broadcasting was expensive.....? Apparently DOGE didn’t douge enough.
There are just three major radio services left — Fox News (primarily on iHeart stations), Cumulus (ABC brand under licence), and Salem.
Weiss does not count out licencing the news service to a syndicated radio network as ABC and Fox have. If a radio network wanted to bring CBS News on the hour, they can pay for it with licencing and news gathering. It’s similar to how CBS News uses network-owned Network Ten news in Australia for ANZ news gathering. If Compass Media decides to sign a deal with them to take over the network, it would pay a licencing fee similar to the Cumulus-ABC or iHeart-Fox deals.
Licencing a newsgathering for radio is a revenue maker.
I thought I heard that Cumulus just declared bankruptcy.
Good riddance!
I still listen when driving or working in the shop. I don't have to bother with telling it what I want over and over. Too busy to think about that.
Even on the conservative stations they take those radio breaks and it’s CBS News and oh my God they are the worst.
I used to listen to KDKA in Pittsburgh decades ago. It became commercial in 1920.
They used to joke that they were the first commercial radio station and still had the equipment to prove it. Radio has been dying for a long time.
I wonder how many USAID dollars were actually propping that woke Marxists garbage up.
Once the spigot was shutoff, notice how many propaganda sites are now shutting down. Good riddance to this evil.
Rush killed them. Rush succeeded in building an audience because they were not getting conservative content on TV. Rush changed the game so that People went to AM radio to get Conservative news.
Far too long.
Exactly.
Karl Marx wept.
I haven’t listened to radio in years...although I do listen to SiriusXM in my car for music when I’m not listening to the music files on my car’s USB.
I really stopped listening to radio after the real Rush (not “nextrush/Clark Focht”, the elitist & arrogant stealer of Rush’s name) passed.
CBS has a radio service?
Who knew?
My brother and I listened to CBS Radio Mystery Theater when we kids. E.G. Marshall was the host. Top-notch show.
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