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CBS News Radio "Dissolved"

As of 8:00 am EDT, WWJ Detroit is not airing a network newscast. Instead, the all-news station is using its local anchors to deliver the news at the top of the hour.
 
As of 8:00 am EDT, WWJ Detroit is not airing a network newscast. Instead, the all-news station is using its local anchors to deliver the news at the top of the hour.

I can confirm that.

This does surprise me, because The Detroit News reported on Thursday that ABC News Radio content would be heard on WWJ according to "a source."

I cannot help but wonder if 910 WFDF's existing affiliation with ABC threw a monkey wrench into the TOH newscast plans?

I guess we'll see if anything changes in the coming week.
 
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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.

WWJ was still airing the CBS TOH updates last evening.

Here's an example of how WWJ backfilled the CBS void at the TOH this morning:

 
KIRO-FM Seattle switched to ABC News yesterday.

Note that KNWN Northwest Newsradio is the long time affiliate of ABC's Information Service.

When ABC shuttered the E-Net a few years ago, they changed the sounder of the :30 one minute status report, and the lockout became "This is ABC News".

KIRO is running a verison of that - same sounder, same lockout, same anchor, but with an additional minute after the lockout.

Is this a 2 minute newscast being fed from :30-:32, and KIRO is running it on delay?
 
In my neck of the woods (Central Kentucky) we had ONE CBS Radio News affiliate: WMST (1150) Mt. Sterling. They switched to NBC news a couple of weeks ago, which makes sense as their other stations are NBC affiliates.
There are/were no current CBS radio affiliates in Lexington, Louisville or Cincinnati.

WKJK Louisville did carry CBS news until a couple of years ago when they switched to FOX.

WAY back in 1984 longtime CBS affiliate, WHAS switched to ABC, citing CBS not being happy with them running their own WHAS local TOH (WHAS had an excellent news department back then) newscasts during morning and afternoon drive. WHAS has been with ABC since then except for a couple of years in the early 2000s where they ran FOX news
 
In my neck of the woods (Central Kentucky) we had ONE CBS Radio News affiliate: WMST (1150) Mt. Sterling. They switched to NBC news a couple of weeks ago, which makes sense as their other stations are NBC affiliates.

Keep in mind that "NBC" is really iHeart, which is licensing the brand from NBC.
WAY back in 1984 longtime CBS affiliate, WHAS switched to ABC, citing CBS not being happy with them running their own WHAS local TOH (WHAS had an excellent news department back then) newscasts during morning and afternoon drive.
KTRH Houston left CBS in 1987, claiming that ABC's approach to news coverage was more aggressive and in line with the image KTRH wished to project. There's a little nugget of truth in there: sometimes these network selections were more about image than about content. CBS's image started falling out of fashion with radio stations, it appeared. That said more about what radio news was turning into than about CBS, I think.
 

Here is an LA time retrospective and obituary for CBS News Radio.


KNX is navigating this in a way similiar to other displaced CBS Radio affiliates.
 
Radio Network News has replaced CBS on KOZI-FM Chelan, WA. I wonder how many others have flipped to RNN?
The top-of-hour jingle sweeper is the exact same one that USA Network News used before they folded.
 
I hope there is a podcast version of it soon.
What purpose is there in having a podcast of the network news every :00 and :30 when there is an update available almost instantly? Any station that becomes an affiliate may record so as to play each newscast at the time in the next few minutes at a precise moment when another show... or a song... ends.
 
KYW in Philly is no longer running the TOH and BOH national news updates they formerly ran late evenings and overnights. Instead, it’s an extra few minutes of locally anchored news. Although now using ABC I think I’m hearing less national news reports and more local anchors reading national news stories.

They are still running Eye on Travel features with Peter Greenberg. I thought those were distributed by CBS.
 
Radio Network News has replaced CBS on KOZI-FM Chelan, WA. I wonder how many others have flipped to RNN?
The top-of-hour jingle sweeper is the exact same one that USA Network News used before they folded.

RNN is using the same TOH jingle sweeper as USA Radio News.

USA Radio News is still around. It’s now owned and distributed by Talk Media Network.
 
They are still running Eye on Travel features with Peter Greenberg. I thought those were distributed by CBS.

Peter Greenberg does a podcast. and CBS podcasts are distributed by Audacy.

 
Here's a commentary about Audacy stations flipping to ABC News before the CBS signoff.


What the commentor ignores is that Audacy was the final distributor of CBS News Radio. They had a contract with CBS, and CBS pulled the plug. Audacy had skin in this game. Audacy's KCBS was still airing World News Roundup when CBS had a technical problem and the show didn't air. Whoops! So perhaps some staffers left CBS News before the final day.
 


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