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CBS Radio News Closure: Effects on WBBM and Chicago

On the Dial said:
It's really hard for me to believe that sticking with the CBS broadcasts one or two extra days would affect that perception one way or another.
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Apparently there were some quality issues in the final days of CBS News Radio. On Thursday, the 7AM World News Roundup failed to appear on the network. They later issued an apology to radio stations. Some of the top anchors had already left by the final shows.

Here's one description of what happened:

Mark Roberts said:
As it turns out, then, the last World News Roundup heard on KCBS was yesterday. Wish I had thought to record it.

Here's what happened this morning:

7 am: Steve Scott throws to the World News Roundup.

After the music bed for the legal ID fades out, silence.

Seven seconds pass. Steve says, "No, really, it is 7 o'clock".

Five more seconds of silence pass. Steve says, "All right. Apparently, there is no CBS World News Roundup at the moment. Good morning, I'm Steve Scott, and we will move on with news from around the Bay Area".

And that was it...all local content for the eight minutes usually taken up by the World News Roundup.

Steve handled it very smoothly. I think most listeners tuning in at 7:01 or thereafter wouldn't have noticed that anything had gone wrong.
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