He used to be President & GM of KGO-TV just before the current role. (Lieberman used to take dumps on him for sport.)
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CBS News Radio Closed
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The bias is most definitely there, and much in the way you describe. I just listened to the last hour's FOX News Radio TOH news cast, which included a shooting of a white woman by a "migrant" in Chicago That's totally red meat to the Fox News demo, and nobody else. Sure, it's a tragedy, as are the dozens of other shootings in America every weekend. But this one happened in the liberal hellhole of Chicago and involved a "migrant." Of course by using the term migrant they are assuming you make the leap to illegal, even though that part is not actually known yet. But he is origianlly from another country and has a Hispanic sounding name, so that's good enough. AND the network reported on Robert Mueller's death but absolutely didn't include Turmp's reaction.
SO, yeah, same ol' Fox News, even on the headlines. Context- there are approxiamtely 100 gun deaths per weekend in the US, outside of suicides. But this one counts, for some reason.
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@The New Chico Goes to show that to the casual listener, the bias is rather subtle, and if one doesn't listen critically, they might miss it.
To those who are fully aware of such things, of course, it sticks out like a sore thumb!
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To those who are fully aware of such things, of course, it sticks out like a sore thumb!
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The writing was on the wall when NBC sold its flagship station in 1988.The press release mentioned 700 affiliated stations
CBS News Radio To Shut Down In May
BREAKING: As part of today's layoffs at CBS News, the company has announced that it will shut down CBS News Radio on May 22.radioinsight.com
After CBS: Let’s Take Back the Airwaves - Radio World
The announcement of the pending shutdown of CBS Radio News isn’t just another media headline — it’s a wake-up call.
www.radioworld.com
“The author is president/CEO of JVC Broadcasting in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. He released this statement on Sunday.”
A bit hypocritical since he uses VT and other labor saving technoligies for his stations, but he is well positioned to actually enact something like this and offer it. I think his outlook is a bit Pollyannaish but I wish him the best.After CBS: Let’s Take Back the Airwaves - Radio World
The announcement of the pending shutdown of CBS Radio News isn’t just another media headline — it’s a wake-up call.
“The author is president/CEO of JVC Broadcasting in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. He released this statement on Sunday.”
That's been the way Fox News operated from the start. And millions see it as clearly as we do. (It's pretty hard to miss the deliberate and chronically repeated right wing buzzwords. Like the repetitive committee hearing behavior of Trump officials of word salad, hostility, evading simple Yes/No questions and other showboating stunts for the cameras, they were taught to do this by someone. No one does anything like that organically.)
As for CBS News for radio, that looked doomed for some time (at least since Mutual went under). All the old mainline radio networks are gone except the brand names.
ABC will eventually go and maybe even CNN and Fox. Leaving AP and maybe the frumpy SRN/Townhall newscasts for commercial radio national newscasts. (I would barf if I heard that on KNWN.)
I don't think Audacy and Hubbard particularly wants to start dedicated in-house radio news services.They could, they certainly have the resources. But it's a big new internal expense with questionable return. And they'll look elsewhere to outsource from cheaper sources before they get to that point. iHeart already has a very good news network, BIN. All they have to make is separate hourly "iHeart News" casts.
When it comes to radio news, it's damn hard to beat NPR. Perhaps because they can go deeper into the stories that the time constraints of commercial radio will not allow. That could be another reason for CBS bailing out of radio news. But most heritage media has already been washing itself of radio and all audio products beyond podcasts.
FYI: They already have iHeart 24/7, which is part of their Total Traffic network.
The business model is based on listener support rather than advertising. That may be the best way to fund news coverage.
And you're probably right. Radio will soon be no longer be viable for national advertising. Once that goes, the fire sales on station clusters begins.
I just read that CBS News Radio's Deborah Rodriguez has won a Gracie Award for "Best News Anchor":
radioinsight.com
2026 Gracie Award Winners Revealed
Today, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation (AWMF) announces the winners of the 51st Annual Gracie Awards® — the
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Here's a thought piece on the closing of CBS News Radio. I think it covers a lot of the subjects we've already discussed, but it's put together in a single piece.
barrettmedia.com
I said earlier that it's both. The finances had eroded to the point where the business model didn't work. Plus it really doesn't fit with where CBS News is aiming to go. The writing was on the wall before PSKY took over.
CBS News Radio's Demise: Canary in the Coal Mine or Deliberately Destroyed?
Either this is a huge problem for the radio industry or a huge overreaction by CBS News.
barrettmedia.com
I said earlier that it's both. The finances had eroded to the point where the business model didn't work. Plus it really doesn't fit with where CBS News is aiming to go. The writing was on the wall before PSKY took over.
This reads like it was written by AI. That awful, overwrought prose is the hallmark of ChatGPT.After CBS: Let’s Take Back the Airwaves - Radio World
The announcement of the pending shutdown of CBS Radio News isn’t just another media headline — it’s a wake-up call.
“The author is president/CEO of JVC Broadcasting in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. He released this statement on Sunday.”
There is bias on both sides. I've had to stop listening to a local station that airs that rebranded NBC news in the mornings because it's so over-the-top. Here is an example of a newscast opening I heard on there.
"New documents leaked from the ongoing trial reveal that Donald Trump once said "Booger!" to Stormy Daniels.
In other news, Japan was destroyed by an earthquake overnight."
Okay, I'm exaggerating. But not by much. You're free to love Trump or hate him, but the fact that every newscast starts
with a Trump "gotcha" before moving on to cover actual substantive news was just more than I could stomach.
Therefore every migrant, without exception is universally guilty. That's the implication and used all the time by the administration and Fox.
Keep in mind that what the president does is news, regardless of who he is. This particular president was a media star before he became a politician. So he knows how the media works, and knows how to control the conversation. He does that regularly with his social media posts, that are quotable and attributable, thus are news. In the 24 hour news cycle, those kinds of things move to the top of all newscasts because the president said it. An example of that might be his comment on the death of Robert Mueller.
There's also not much "how" in there.
Another New York Times piece (gosh, is this getting them to pay actual attention to radio?) on the closure of CBS News Radio. It's more of a retrospective than a story with new developments, but here's a gift link:
Moreover, he's accessible. He complains about the media, but he's always got material for them. So he gets to shape the conversation, both directly and indirectly.
This is a lesson that Democrats, in particular, have been inept at understanding. Joe Biden got much more hostile coverage as a result.
It's a great piece. So much focus on pre-TV and pre-internet radio may be why radio has become so vulnerable.
One quote:
A book I read on Edward R. Murrow talked about news then as "sustaining" programming, which is to say, it wasn't based on profit. That was why Murrow also did commercial programming for CBS TV, such as his Person To Person celebrity interviews. He was the original Barbara Walters. But CBS did news at a loss because it made so much money from its entertainment. Once that equation changed, news could no longer exist on its own. CBS Evening News gets support from the profits from 60 Minutes. CBS News Radio had no such support.
Clearly written by AI. It's an atrocious read.
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