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CBS Radio News Closure: Effects on KCBS and San Francisco

Mark Roberts said:
Kansas City: pick a year; it floated around KCMO, KMBZ, KAYQ (!), and KBEA - when I was there in April, I heard the one-minute CBS News updates on KMBZ
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I thought KMBZ was an ABC News affiliate, they at least have had their reporters on the air talking to the local hosts in early morning, before the AM side goes to a paid program around 7 or 8 AM.
 
I was able to get a studio quality .mp3 of the final CBS World News Roundup. It was sent to a station owner by a CBS Radio affiliate representative who then shared with me. Happy listening!

I sent a copy over to DCRTV.com and he posted. Here it is:

dcrtv.com

(Audio) The Last World News Roundup

The World News Roundup aired for the final time Friday morning, ending the longest-running newscast in American broadcasting history….
dcrtv.com dcrtv.com
 
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Curious, if due to the change in network affiliation, CBS will try and force a change in San Francisco 740 AM's call letters? Keep in mind, they will have to be changed -- per the spinoff agreement -- by 2027. At this point, using the KFRC calls for both AM and FM might make sense, and re-inforce a Bay Area image as opposed to a TV network that got out of the radio business.
 
OldiesMaven said:
Curious, if due to the change in network affiliation, CBS will try and force a change in San Francisco 740 AM's call letters?
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They have to follow the contract. CBS caused this problem, not the station. If anyone is in breach, it's CBS.

Remember that CBS had just signed a new distribution agreement with Audacy in October. Then they pulled out a few months later.
 
OldiesMaven said:
Curious, if due to the change in network affiliation, CBS will try and force a change in San Francisco 740 AM's call letters? Keep in mind, they will have to be changed -- per the spinoff agreement -- by 2027. At this point, using the KFRC calls for both AM and FM might make sense, and re-inforce a Bay Area image as opposed to a TV network that got out of the radio business.
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The sale of CBS Radio to Entercom gave what's now Audacy the right to use the WCBS and KCBS calls until 2037, not 2027.

And they don't "have" to be changed then. The agreement can always be extended if both parties want to extend it - assuming there's even anything recognizable about either of them by 2037.

A lot can and will change by then.
 
radiofan2023 said:
I thought KMBZ was an ABC News affiliate,
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They are now, and have been for about 30-35 years. In the 1990s, both KMBZ and WDAF were ABC affiliates. WDAF had Paul Harvey.

When I was in Kansas City in April, KMBZ was also carrying the CBS :31 newsbriefs, at least in morning drive.
 
OldiesMaven said:
Curious, if due to the change in network affiliation, CBS will try and force a change in San Francisco 740 AM's call letters? Keep in mind, they will have to be changed -- per the spinoff agreement -- by 2027. At this point, using the KFRC calls for both AM and FM might make sense, and re-inforce a Bay Area image as opposed to a TV network that got out of the radio business.
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Rewind all the way to the start of this thread, and you will see that the topic of KCBS's call letters was beaten into the ground. Thoroughly.
 
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The final episode for CBS World News Roundup is found here in this Iheart link. Yes this is one of a few places to find airchecks tied to the CBS Radio News shutdown. The final affiliates for CBS Radio News are all on audio apps and SiriusXM's Potus channel.

We tried going around the CBS Radio news feeds on Audacy and Tunein but was later told that its being redirected to the TV audio of CBS News. Yes its going to be rare to find this on OTA given that they were required to switch affiliations prior to the shut down.

Here is an ad for CBS Radio on opening day when they premiered in 1927. Now CBS Radio prior to shut down is mainly seen on various audio apps and major OTA stations changed affiliations this week.
 

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Mark Roberts said:
I can't find the KELY stream at all. It's not obvious from their website and TuneIn keeps giving me a streaming error.

I've had really bad luck with the WNR. I tried to record it from KGLO in Mason City, Iowa this morning. The stream was working, if bit-starved, but, just as with KCBS yesterday, the feed wasn't there. The KGLO announcer said the WNR feed was "already taken out of our satellite receiver". So they replayed the previous hour's TOH news instead.

Satellite receiver? I know it's been years since I was inside a radio station, but I thought programs these days would be distributed by Internet connections.
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I likely will be listening to KELY. KHAS is an interesting station though.

KELY can be found here:

I have been listening to KELY on and off all day.


KHAS is here: KHAS Radio

NewsTalk 1290 is here: https://newstalk1290.com/listen-live/popup/?mobile=true
 
KELY is airing right now, the farewell special that aired in 1964 about the end of the CBS "Studio 9". Great stuf, glad I'm recording it.

KELY is an odd station BTW. The announcer doing the weather likes to play the sound of a duck quacking while reading it. Ely is pretty small, less than 4,000 people live there, in the middle of the desert.
 
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Here is the earliest recordings of KCBS as an all News station and when it was a CBS O&O.


Here is another notable one when KCBS Radio aired the fallout of the Loma Prieta quake not just to Bay Area listeners but also to the rest of the country via CBS News Radio in 1989.
 
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Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Here is another notable one when KCBS Radio aired the fallout of the Loma Prieta quake not just to Bay Area listeners but also to the rest of the country via CBS News Radio in 1989.CBS Radio was scheduled to carry the World Series game so they had a hole to fill. KCBS didn't carry the game(s) because of rights held by each team's home networks.
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KCBS coverage starts about 5 minutes into the clip - before that it's a couple of band scans of the stations on the air.

In those pre-Internet days KCBS didn't have a return feed to the network, the feed that replaced the World Series coverage came from a McKay Dymek tuner in the KNX shop. CBS airfreighted a new small aperture satellite uplink to SF and we got it going just before sunrise in Los Angeles.

BTW - KCBS was running 12.5 Kw non-directional during this time from the replacement Tower 3 as we were getting ready to drop the remaining 3 original towers - between the earthquake and the onset of winter the tower replacements were delayed until the next Spring.
 
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Lou Schneider said:
KCBS coverage starts about 5 minutes into the clip - before that it's a couple of band scans of the stations on the air.

In those pre-Internet days KCBS didn't have a return feed to the network. The network feed that replaced the World Series coverage came from a McKay Dymek tuner in the KNX shop. CBS airfreighted a new small aperture satellite uplink to SF and we got it going just before sunrise in Los Angeles.

BTW - KCBS was running 12.5 Kw non-directional during this time from the replacement Tower 3 as we were getting ready to drop the remaining 3 original towers - between the earthquake and the onset of winter the tower replacements were delayed until the next Spring.
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Here's another but this time from Stan Bunger sample of the Loma Prieta clips he gathered while reporting on the event.

OK its gotta be when CBS News on the TV side ran with KPIX news coverage of Loma Prieta Quake when that was taking place.

It's just I didn't think that KCBS didn't have a return feed to either Los Angeles or New York where CBS Radio News could have accessed KCBS News coverage at that time.
 


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