CBS News shutters its storied radio news service after nearly a century, ending an era

All thanks to Larry and David Ellison, the MAGA oligarchies, who bought the CBS/Paramount in 2024.

Oof too ture But this should not be allowed people need to be informed of local events i guess you pay per month now for weather alert's.?

AI will save it!

Yeah, but the truth might accidentally slip out on those airwaves and we certainly can’t have that

The point is to destroy it for good because creating a new radio network from scratch is prohibitively expensive

A lot of these companies local AM stations here that used CBS or ABC now use Fox as their news source and for added shows on weekends. It’s gross.

The CBS affiliated radio station in my city is the #1 news radio station in my entire state. I think they’re just killing off CBS News as punishment for not being Trumpy enough

Could NPR offer to sell 3 and 6 minute news updates to these affiliates who now have a space to fill? This could provide a small amount of additional needed revenue to NPR.

translate 700 radio stations to verified listeners and ad revenue. Going up or going down? We liked Walter Cronkite on both radio and TV, but he's still dead. Much like radio.

My first time hearing this joke

Don't forget Bari Weiss and David Ellison.

ABC will be the last one standing, since nobody has the cash to buy Disney. But expect to see Jake Tapper become the radical left winger on CNN.

Seeing as how CBS' ratings have tanked during her tenure I'm pretty the other networks don't want that either. News orgs need to figure out that they're not going to pull in large numbers by being Diet Fox News, the people that would want that already have Fox News and many of those people are quitting Fox News to watch actual Nazis and/or weird AI conspiracy theory videos on YouTube.

From the OP article: >[Bari] Weiss is not a stranger to CBS’ storied history. Addressing her staff in January, three months into her job as CBS News boss, she invoked the network’s legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking and said that if the network continues with its current strategy, “we’re toast.” >Weiss announced the hiring of 18 new contributors and said CBS News needs to do stories that will “surprise and provoke — including inside our own newsroom.” >Weiss, founder of the Free Press website and without broadcast news experience before being hired by CBS parent Paramount’s new management, has quickly become a headline-maker and polarizing figure in journalism. She held a “60 Minutes” story critical of President Donald Trump’s deportation policy from being broadcast for a month and has critics watching to see if she’s moving the network in a Trump-friendly direction.

so true - i keep hearing we have the hottest country in the world

Can't believe that quote is real.

A handful of dudes in charge of an entire market: "Nobody wants to pay for local or physical news! They want a to subscribe to a couple of networks or podcasts that help them see the world like a CEO because they want to become richer!" 1 dude in charge of an entire market: "Nobody cares about using social media to socialize! What they want is parasocial relationships with s*** people they don't know & infinite scrolling of anxiety to be immediately available from their pocket!" A few dudes in charge of an entire market: "Nobody wants sedans or station wagons! Make our entire product line pickups, SUVs, & sports cars!" A few dudes in charge of a market: "Nobody wants trains or public transport! They want more highways & cars - trucks! They want more trucks!" A few dudes in charge of an entire market: "Nobody wants physical media! They want subscriptions to streaming service on their phones!" 1 company in charge of an entire market: "Nobody wants their ticket prices to make them feel like they're some kind of a poor going into a dive bar! They want to feel like they a glamorous person paying for high quality" A couple of dozen dudes in charge of an entire market: "Nobody wants to pay cash or use paper tickets at a sports venue! They want to use their smartphone!" 1 dude taking charge of an entire market: "Nobody wants to build things using electronics components as a hobby! What they want are smartphone accessories!" A dude taking over a market: "Nobody likes going to a toy store or mall! They like shopping for things through an app on their smartphone!" 1 dude taking control of a third of a market: "Nobody likes quality made entertainment content! They like stuff a CEO would like, the TikToks, & corporate tax write-offs!" A few dudes in charge of a couple of markets: "Nobody wants to pay for landlines or cable! They want to buy a new smartphone each year & subscribe to multiple entertainment packages owned by various companies!"

They don't want us to make it through the next thing coming. Or have any information that would help us make it through 

That's why Larry and David Ellison, the MAGA oligarchies, bought the CBS/Paramount in 2024.

WBBM isn’t going anywhere; it’s owned by Audacy. CBS hasn’t owned any radio stations for years. The station just has to find a new top of hour newscast.

Yep. As much as 'The Liberal Media' is a conservative trope, objectively speaking it is not totally false (radio excepted). It doesn't reflect conservative values, no matter if that's because reality has a liberal bias. The goal is to tear all that down. See twitter, CBS, Washington Post, VOA, etc.

I'm glad NBC referenced Paley and Murrow in this obituary.

Yes, it was an easy decision when your lips are wrapped around the President's... and I'll leave it at that.

Does this include 1010 wins in NY? Damitt!! 🤬

> The closing of the 4th branch of government happened .....when Reagan deregulated the broadcast industry and ownership limits so all the newspapers, TV and radio stations could be bought up by right-wing corporations.

You mean after all the people decided to stop paying for news and to survive the media had to continuallly get more and more inflamatory and clickbaity to get eyeballs? People would much rather was national news for free than pay for their local newspaper. People didn't want to pay for magazines with their in-depth research, oh no they wanted stuff RIGHT NOW and truth be damned just be first.

A lot of these stations will probably end up as Fox affiliates.