CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network, is a

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that provides

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to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the

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. The network is owned by

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. It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks (CBS, NBC Radio Network and

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) still operating and still owned by its parent company, even though CBS sold its

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radio stations in 2017. (The current NBC Radio Network is actually owned by iHeartMedia but licenses use of the NBC name and NBC's TV news reports.) CBS News Radio is one of the two national news services distributed by Skyview Networks, which transmits national news, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, weather, video news and other information to radio and television stations, as well as traffic reporting services.

Background

The network is the second-oldest unit of Paramount Global after Paramount Pictures. CBS Radio traces its roots to CBS's predecessor, United Independent Broadcasters, founded in 1927 with 47

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s. The next year, Columbia Records invested in the radio network, which was named the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. Eventually, the record company pulled its backing from the struggling web.

William S. Paley William Samuel Paley (September 28, 1901 – October 26, 1990) was an American businessman, primarily involved in the media, and best known as the chief executive who built the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS) from a small radio network into ...

bought a half-interest in what became the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928, and became its president. (In 1938, CBS bought its former parent, Columbia Records.) For more about the network's history, see

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. On February 2, 2017, CBS Corporation announced that its shareholders had acquired a majority stake in

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, whose corporate management will continue to oversee the company along with CBS's radio assets. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th. The CBS News Radio network service will continue to be managed by CBS News. On August 2, 2017, CBS announced that it had signed a contract with Skyview Networks for distribution of CBS News Radio. This went into effect January 1, 2018.

Programming

Stations and affiliates

Today, CBS News Radio is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, including flagship station WCBS in New York, and several other

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and

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stations. They include KNX in

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, WBBM in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, KCBS in

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, KRLD in

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, KYW in

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WTOP-FM WTOP-FM (103.5 FM) – branded ''WTOP Radio'' and ''WTOP News'' – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station serves the Washington metropolitan area, extending its ...

in Washington, WBZ in

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, WWJ in

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, WCCO in

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, KXNT

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KMOX KMOX (1120 AM) is a commercial radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it is a 50,000 watt Class A clear-channel station with a non-directional signal. The KMOX studios and offices are on Olive Street at Tucker Bouleva ...

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, and WTIC in

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. CBS News Radio offers hourly ''News-on-the-Hour'' newscasts (available in three- and six-minute versions) and a one-minute newscast at 31 minutes past the hour. They are sent to member stations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the over-the-air product, reports and actualities are made available to affiliates via the network's Newsfeed service. Many of the aforementioned outlets make heavy use of the CBS network feed material throughout their broadcast day. The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the ''

CBS World News Roundup The ''CBS World News Roundup'' is the longest-running network radio newscast in the United States. It airs weekday mornings and evenings on the CBS Radio Network. It first went on-air on March 13, 1938, at 8 p.m. ET as a one-time special in res ...

'', U.S. broadcasting's oldest news series. The ''Roundup'' dates back to a special network broadcast on March 13, 1938, featuring live reports from Europe on

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's annexation of

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. Since 2010, Steve Kathan has anchored the morning show, which airs at 8am ET and 7am PT, while Jennifer Keiper hosts the evening edition at 7pm ET. Each Friday afternoon, the network also distributes the '' CBS News Weekend Roundup,'' an hour-long look at the top stories of the week, hosted by correspondent Allison Keyes.

News reporters and anchors

CBS News Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Steve Futterman, Jim Krasula, Peter King, Steven Portnoy, Cami McCormick, Vicki Barker, Elaine Cobbe, Sabina Castelfranco and Robert Berger.

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was the network's long-time

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correspondent. Knoller often made additional appearances on CBS Television, especially if he is the day's pool reporter for the

Press Corps. Knoller no longer filed radio reports after about 2011, transitioning to report mostly on twitter. He left CBS in 2020.

Features and news programs

In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson, based at

, and a morning talk show hosted by

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, based at

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, on some of its owned-and-operated stations. CBS handled the syndication of Grayson's show itself, while syndication for Smerconish's show to non-CBS stations had been outsourced to

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(which at that time was not involved with the CBS Radio Network itself). Grayson's show, ''Overnight America'', also entered national syndication via Dial Global on January 30, 2012. Smerconish discontinued the morning show in 2011 and Grayson's show ended its national distribution a few years later. Three of CBS's television programs are currently simulcast over CBS News Radio affiliates; those are ''

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'', '' 60 Minutes'', and the ''

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''. Some stations, including WCBS in New York and WBZ in Boston, air the entire ''Evening News''. In addition, the '' Late Show with David Letterman'' Top Ten List was also broadcast by the network in a short-form-feature format until the show's conclusion with David Letterman's retirement in 2015. Other public-affairs features include ''CBS Healthwatch'' with Dr. Emily Senay, ''Raising Our Kids'' (formerly suffixed with ''in the 90s'' during that decade) with former WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, ''What's in the News,'' and "Eye on Washington," a daily look at goings on in the nation's capital. During the overnight hours, the CBS News streaming service carries a simulcast of CBS News Radio's top-of-the-hour reports. In March 2021, CBS News Radio hired

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to host a nightly newsmagazine, ''Eye on the World''. Batchelor had previously hosted an eponymous show that was syndicated through Westwood One and, before that,

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Sports programs

Historically, the sports coverage now produced by

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was branded as CBS Radio Sports and, like the news features, associated with the CBS Radio Network; however, after CBS began managing the original Westwood One in the mid-1990s, the sports broadcasts would come under the Westwood One banner (with both identities used in the late 1990s), a practice that would continue even after CBS stopped managing Westwood One in 2007. CBS launched a 24/7

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network, " CBS Sports Radio" in fall 2012 through Cumulus Media Networks, owned by

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(Cumulus Media Networks was merged into Westwood One in 2013, following Cumulus' acquisition of Westwood One).

Anchors

*Deborah Rodriguez - Weekday Mornings - New York *Steve Kathan - World News Roundup & Weekday Mid-days - New York *Monica Rix - Weekday Afternoons - New York *Jennifer Keiper - World News Roundup Late Edition & Weekday Evenings - Chicago *Jennifer Brown - CBS Connected Minute - New York *Tom Foty - Weekend Overnights - Washington *Wendy Gillette - Fill-in - New York

Reporters

*Cami McCormick - Pentagon and State Department *Steven Portnoy - White House *Stacy Lyn - Washington *Allison Keyes - Washington *Linda Kenyon - Washington *Christopher Cruise - Washington *Steve Dorsey – Washington Executive Editor *Jim Krasula - The Carolinas *Peter King - Orlando *Steve Futterman - Los Angeles *Mara Rubin - New York *Stephan Kauffman - Prescott, Arizona *Vicki Barker - London *Robert Berger - Jerusalem *Elaine Cobbe - Paris *Sabina Castelfranco - Rome *Lucy Craft - Tokyo *Adrienne Bard - Mexico City * Scott Mayman - Brisbane

''Music and the Spoken Word''

While the network's ''World News Roundup'' is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U.S., the title of longest-running network radio show of any kind goes to another CBS Radio program—''

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,'' a half-hour of music and inspirational thought featuring the

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. It began on July 15, 1929 and currently airs each Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern Time. (The longest running radio show of any kind is the '' Grand Ole Opry'', broadcast on WSM in

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since November 28, 1925.)

All-news affiliates

:''These stations were formerly owned-and-operated by CBS Radio before November 17, 2017, and are now under ownership of

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, unless otherwise noted.''

All-news All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news. All-news radio is available in both local and syndicated forms, and is carried on both major US satellite radio networks. All-news stations can run the ...

affiliates of CBS News Radio, listed by market rank: * WCBS 880 AM: New York, New York (#1Arbitron Radio Market Rankings - Fall 2012
/ref>) * KNX 1070 AM: Los Angeles, California (#2) * WBBM 780 AM and

WCFS-FM WCFS-FM (105.9 MHz) – branded ''Newsradio 105.9 WBBM'' – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to the Chicago suburb of Elmwood Park, Illinois. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station services the Chicago metropolitan area, operati ...

/105.9 FM: Chicago, Illinois (#3) * KCBS 740 AM and 106.9 FM: San Francisco, California (#4) * KRLD 1080 AM: Dallas, Texas (#5) * KYW 1060 AM and

WPHI-FM WPHI-FM (103.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc., simulcasting an all-news radio format with co-owned KYW 1060 AM. T ...

/103.9 FM: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (#8) *

103.5 FM: Washington, DC (#9) ( Hubbard Broadcasting) * WBZ 1030 AM: Boston, Massachusetts (#10) ( iHeartMedia) * WWJ 950 AM: Detroit, Michigan (#11)

References

External links

CBS News Radio official website
{{White House James S. Brady Press Briefing Room seating chart CBS Radio networks Paramount Global subsidiaries Radio stations established in 1927