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CBS News Radio "Dissolved"

Weiserguy said:
There was a technical glitch this morning at 07:00 PDT. As was mentioned in another thread, when KCBS went to the network -- yeah, old habits die hard -- there was complete dead air. In San Francisco, the AM Drive anchor, Steve Scott, recovered nicely and moved forward after a few seconds as if they had just cut away from the World News Roundup and picked back up with the local news. Except that they had to punt with eight unplanned minutes, everyone acted like the pros they are. I haven't read reports from KNX or other West Coast affiliates, but have no reason to believe it was an isolated incident at only KCBS.

Assuming it happened at all the Pacific stations that take the WNR, and given the attention there's been to the shuttering of CBS news radio, TPTB might have decided to post the "lost" newscast as a streamable/downloadable for listeners who want to archive it for posterity.
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Something similar happened this morning at KGLO in Mason City, Iowa, which is still on CBS today. The anchor front-announced the World News Roundup several times. At 7 am, he threw to the network and...silence. Five PSAs followed. Then the anchor came back and said the WNR was "already taken out of our satellite receiver". It wasn't clear whether this was a strictly local situation.
 
KOZI 93.5 in Chelan WA was a CBS News Radio affiliate. I will check at the TOH to see if they have switched networks yet or not, and will give an update when I do.
I believe it was the closest affiliate.

They are STILL on CBS to the end! Listening now!
 
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Here are the Audacy news and talk stations that switched over to ABC on Thursday. They were formerly owned by CBS:

KNX Los Angeles ... All-News
WBBM Chicago ... All-News
KRLD Dallas ... All-News AM and PM weekdays ... Talk other hours
KCBS San Francisco ... All-News
KYW Philadelphia ... All-News (limited to overnight)
WPHT Philadelphia ... Talk (nights and weekends)
WWJ Detroit ... All-News
WCCO Minneapolis ... Talk
KMOX St. Louis ... Talk (nights and weekends)
KJCE Austin ... Talk
KNXT Las Vegas ... Talk
KDKA Pittsburgh ... Talk (nights and weekends)
WWL New Orleans ... Talk - Sports (nights and weekends)
WTIC Hartford ... Talk (nights and weekends)

And here are the Audacy talk stations that have been ABC affiliates all along. They were owned by Entercom before the acquisition of CBS Radio stations.

KMBZ Kansas City
WBEN Buffalo
WRVA Richmond
WSKY-FM Gainsville/Ocala
KNSS Wichita
WILK Wilkes-Barre/Scranton

One Audacy Talk station is a Fox affiliate, WYRD-FM Greensboro. And Audacy All-News station WINS New York doesn't run network news, not even overnight. It had used ABC along with CBS for clips and actualities.
 
Beautiful piece to wrap up nearly 90 years of the radio network. Bits from Edward R. Murrow, Dan Rather, and other former CBS personalities. Then a promo for Face the Nation, a Tax Relief Advocates commercial, followed by a piece from Robert Trout on the CBS Radio studio.

"I'm Christopher Cruz, CBS news." Wayfair and Straight Talk commercials are the last things to air on the CBS News top-of-hour newscast.

All taped, via KOZI-FM Chelan.

RIP. :cry:

I wonder which service they will flip to. I believe AM uses Fox News, they may just pipe in Fox tomorrow.
 
I'm a little surprised Cruise did the last newscast - he's great but fairly new (a VOA retiree). Would have expected someone like Cami McCormick or Peter King to close it out.
 
crainbebo said:
Beautiful piece to wrap up nearly 90 years of the radio network. Bits from Edward R. Murrow, Dan Rather, and other former CBS personalities. Then a promo for Face the Nation, a Tax Relief Advocates commercial, followed by a piece from Robert Trout on the CBS Radio studio.
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A couple clips of Cami McCormick reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan, including one where she's talking about the danger of IEDs. Powerful.
 


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