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Swede

(39,331 posts) Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:27 PM 13 hrs ago

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

CBS News said Friday it is shutting down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation as part of a round of layoffs, blaming a shift in radio station programming strategies and challenging economic times.

When it went on the air in September 1927, CBS News Radio was the precursor to the entire network, giving a youthful William S. Paley a start in the business. Famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow delivered reports from London during World War II as part of the service.

Today CBS News Radio provides material to an estimated 700 stations across the country, and is known best for its top-of-the-hour news roundups. The service will end on May 22, the network said Friday.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/cbs-news-shutters-its-storied-radio-news-service-after-nearly-a-century-ending-an-era/

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CBS News shutters its storied radio news service after nearly a century, ending an era (Original Post) Swede 13 hrs ago OP

We are watching the unraveling of our country in real time PCIntern 13 hrs ago #1

It's scarey what one troll can do. Swede 8 hrs ago #2

CBS was home to Edward R. Murrow, and as NPR pointed out this pm, it has given us allegorical oracle 8 hrs ago #3

PCIntern

(28,314 posts)

1. We are watching the unraveling of our country in real time

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 12:35 PM

13 hrs ago

Swede

(39,331 posts)

2. It's scarey what one troll can do.

Reply to PCIntern (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:01 PM

8 hrs ago

Destroy a well established democracy.

allegorical oracle

(6,436 posts)

3. CBS was home to Edward R. Murrow, and as NPR pointed out this pm, it has given us

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Fri Mar 20, 2026, 05:08 PM

8 hrs ago

our news since 1938. Sad.

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