CBS News Radio
News radio network | |
Country | |
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Ownership | |
Owner | Paramount Global |
Parent | CBS/CBS News (producer) Skyview Networks (distributor) |
History | |
Launch date | 1927 |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen live Listen live (via Audacy) |
Website | CBS News Radio |
CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network, is a
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
.On February 2, 2017, CBS Corporation announced that its shareholders had acquired a majority stake in Entercom (now Audacy, Inc.), whose corporate management will continue to oversee the company along with CBS's radio assets.[1] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th.[2][3] 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.[4]
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
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, 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 Germany's annexation of Austria. 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 Jim Krasula, Peter King, Linda Kenyon, Cami McCormick, Vicki Barker, Elaine Cobbe, Sabina Castelfranco and Robert Berger.
Mark Knoller was the network's long-time White House correspondent. Knoller often made additional appearances on CBS Television, especially if he is the day's pool reporter for the White House Press Corps. Knoller no longer filed radio reports after about 2011, transitioning to report mostly on twitter. He left CBS in 2020.[5]
Features and news programs
In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson, based at
Three of CBS's television programs are currently simulcast over CBS News Radio affiliates; those are
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
In March 2021, CBS News Radio hired John Batchelor to host a nightly newsmagazine, Eye on the World.[7] Batchelor had previously hosted an eponymous show that was syndicated through Westwood One and, before that, ABC Radio Networks.
Sports programs
Historically, the sports coverage now produced by Westwood One 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
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
- Wendy Gillette - Fill-in - New York
Reporters
- Cami McCormick - Pentagon and State Department
- Stacy Lyn - Washington
- Allison Keyes - Washington
- Linda Kenyon - Washington
- Christopher Cruise - Washington
- Jim Krasula - The Carolinas
- Peter King - Orlando
- Carter Evans - 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—
All-news affiliates
- These stations were formerly , unless otherwise noted.
All-news affiliates of CBS News Radio, listed by market rank:
- WCBS 880 AM: New York, New York (#1[8])
- KNX 1070 AM and KNX-FM 97.1: Los Angeles, California (#2)
- WBBM 780 AM and WCFS-FM 105.9: Chicago, Illinois (#3)
- KCBS 740 AM and KFRC-FM 106.9: San Francisco, California (#4)
- KRLD 1080 AM: Dallas, Texas (#5)
- KYW 1060 AM and WPHI-FM 103.9: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (#8)
- WTOP-FM 103.5: Washington, DC (#9) (Hubbard Broadcasting)
- WBZ 1030 AM: Boston, Massachusetts (#10) (iHeartMedia - late nights)
- WWJ 950 AM: Detroit, Michigan (#11)
References
- ^ CBS Radio To Merge With Entercom - Radio Insight (published February 2, 2017)
- ^ "Entercom Receives FCC Approval for Merger with CBS Radio". Archived from the original on 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ Entercom Completes CBS Radio Merger
- ^ CBS News Radio and Skyview Networks press release - "Skyview networks" (published August 2, 2017)
- ^ "Veteran CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller confirms layoff". 19 June 2020.
- ^ "Dial Global offers syndication of KMOX's "Overnight America With Jon Grayson"". Radio-Info.com. January 24, 2012. Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
- ^ "Wednesday, March 10, 2021". Talkers Magazine. March 10, 2021.
- ^ Arbitron Radio Market Rankings - Fall 2012