CBS News Radio to Cease Operations

[Matthew-NC]

(Radio Ink) CBS News Radio will be winding down its operations over the next several weeks.

The news was shared via an internal memo from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski and first confirmed to Streamline Publishing by Manager of Affiliate Services Amy Bolton, who is attending the Country Radio Seminar (CRS) in Nashville.

The memo confirms that May 22 will be the final day for the nearly century-old news service. Bolton, when contacted for confirmation of the news, noted that she is in the process of speaking with some of the approximately 700 affiliated stations about the upcoming closure of the audio service.

CBS News Radio To Cease Operations - Radio Ink

Radio Ink has confirmed that CBS News Radio will be winding down its operations over the next several weeks. The news was shared via an internal memo distributed Friday by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski.

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[passenger]

It's about time for more of this, really; AM Radio has gone to shit in the past decade or so.

 

[Matthew-NC]

It's about time for more of this, really; AM Radio has gone to shit in the past decade or so.

In broad swaths of the country AM radio is still what people listen to; it gets a lot further out than FM radio can. Yes, streaming has long out-surpassed terrestrial radio but there still is nothing like turning on a radio and just simply listening to something, anything.