The ''CBS News Weekend Roundup'' is a weekly news show that airs on

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, designed for a one-hour time slot, though it has an actual length without

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of about 40 minutes. It reviews the previous week's news and provides insights on possible future developments in the

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and the world.

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The show, produced Friday afternoons, also airs on CBS News Radio

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on Saturdays and Sundays. It includes interviews with

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radio and TV correspondents and various newsmakers, compilations of reports through the week that have aired both on CBS-TV and CBS News Radio, as well as commentary from actor and TV personality Charles Grodin. In addition, an ad-free

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of the entire program has been available from CBS News since early 2006, which is first distributed Friday afternoon. During breaking news events on Fridays and Saturdays the program is updated to affiliate stations which have not aired the program yet to provide the updated information, and likewise the podcast feed. The ''Weekend Roundup'' is anchored by the correspondent Allison Keyes in the CBS News

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, bureau. Skyview Networks handles the distribution. The broadcast has aired weekly on the network since 2000. The network's then-news director, Mike Freedman, was the creator and first executive producer of the show, with Charlie Kaye as producer. Bill Lynch, former anchor of the '' CBS World News Roundup'' morning edition, was the first host of the ''Weekend Roundup,'' then based in New York. Dan Raviv had a long tenure as anchor of the broadcast, with Washington, D.C., Bureau Chief Howard Arenstein serving as the executive producer and substitute anchor. Arenstein left CBS in late 2016 and Raviv quietly departed a few weeks later. Washington Executive Editor Steve Dorsey anchored for a few years until being replaced by Allison Keyes in 2019. The ''CBS News Weekend Roundup'' is based on the early CBS Radio format of reporters discussing the issues from different points of the world or nation. That 1938 format was not only the basis for the ''CBS World News Roundup'', which airs mornings and evenings on the radio network, but the

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that are a staple of American TV. The ''Weekend Roundup'' is also a direct successor to the CBS Radio Network show ''Capital Ideas'', focusing on government and domestic news, which aired during the 1990s from Washington, D.C., and featured correspondents Rob Armstrong and John Hartge as well as Arenstein.

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External links

''CBS News Weekend Roundup'' podcasting feed (XML)''CBS News Weekend Roundup'' on the iTunes Store
CBS News 2000 radio programme debuts 2006 podcast debuts