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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News
- Thread starter Mark Roberts
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David, do you ever watch the man-on-the-street bits during some of Jimmy Kimmel's monologues? Or assuming you never watch Kimmel, can you remember the Jaywalking segments on Leno's Tonight Show? (Or even occasionally Letterman, for that matter.) To watch those, you'd think the half-vast majority of Americans were imbeciles. The reality is never that simple. The street team goes out on the boulevard with a short list of trick questions, asks 50-or-so passers-by who are willing to play along the questions, and then asks the dumbest of the dumb to sign a release. Then they come back to home base and go to work in the video editing pod. Guaranteed, most of us who know the difference between a real president and Dipshit von Dimwit, or a war in Iran from one in the Faroe Islands, won't even be asked to sign the release. We don't make their point for them, and answering current events questions correctly just isn't funny.
That's even worse then in that way. Each station/affiliate would be forced to carry a CBS network that is hybrid general entertainment/conservative talk.
Huh? 😵💫
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Yeah ... HUH??? 🥴
Oliver Darcy's Status is reporting that big layoffs will be coming to CBS News tomorrow (Friday, March 20).
Disclaimer: Darcy posted the headline to Bluesky, where I saw it: Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) (I'm not a subscriber to Status at this time.)
Disclaimer: Darcy posted the headline to Bluesky, where I saw it: Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) (I'm not a subscriber to Status at this time.)
That's expressed rather inartfully, but I think your point is that CBS would become Fox News but with more entertainment shows. I will go back to something I mentioned earlier in this thread: Why would Fox News viewers tune to an imitation when they can have the real thing? Entertainment shows might be treated differently but they would cost more money to produce and wouldn't advance any kind of ideological project. Moreover, that's a different thing from the affiliate-network relationship. After all, an affiliate could choose to disaffiliate for any number of reasons. Whether that's realistic is yet another matter, but that option is there.
I think the hope was that the transformation of CBS News would be a little quieter in terms of the viewer's awareness---and that less-political independents who were already watching and knew enough to consider CBS News to be a mark of quality journalism would then simply take the Bari Weiss version at face value and with equal credibility. Not an attempt to steal FOX News viewers so much as an attempt to reach beyond that base.
But that hasn't happened.
Subhead:
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Major CBS News Layoffs Begin Under Bari Weiss’ Restructuring Plan
The cuts were revealed Friday morning to network news employees, including the shuttering of CBS News Radio after 100 years.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
CBS News Radio To Shutter Amid News Division Cuts
The closure of CBS News Radio ends nearly 100 years of radio programming from CBS.
deadline.com
CBS News Starts Another Round Of Layoffs
The layoffs are the latest under new editor in chief Bari Weiss and new owner Paramount Skydance.
deadline.com
Here are more cuts announced at CBS News as its all a part of Paramount Merging with WB. Also CBS News Radio is shutting down. Audacy owned stations like KCBS, WINS, KNX, WBBM, KYW will lose their affiliation with CBS News Radio in May.
While stunning, I think that handwriting had been on the wall for a long time, maybe even since the divestiture of the radio stations to Entercom/Audacy. The affiliate count was slowly shrinking. It was absent from some fairly substantial markets, including Denver and the Front Range.
The Audacy all-news stations that carried the CBS top-of-hour news will have to adjust. That could also mean adjustments in news wheels, depending upon the approach taken.
Cutting the cord.
I wonder what my affiliate will switch to?
CBS Radio News is shutting down, ending a national news service for nearly 700 radio stations | 830 WCCO
A memo from CBS on Friday announced that they're ending CBS News Radio, ending a service that aired on approximately 700 affiliated stations around the U.S. That includes stations like WCCO Radio, which has been affiliated with CBS for nearly a century. | 830 WCCO
www.audacy.com
Here is Audacy's response when they got the announcement their stations were losing their affiliation with CBS Radio News.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Preferably, the North Carolina Simian News Network. 😜
And AP could go from Associated Press to Anthropoid Public Extravaganza, "where we go ape over breaking news".
CBS News Radio service leaving, but WBBM is here to stay | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
CBS News on Friday announced a new round of layoffs and that includes the shutdown of CBS News Radio. So what does that mean for WBBM Newsradio 780 and 105.9 AM? Most importantly, WBBM Newsradio 780 AM and 105.9 FM are NOT going anywhere. | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
www.audacy.com
KNX Explains: CBS News Radio to shut down after nearly 100 years. What does this mean for listeners? | KNX News 1070 AM
| KNX News 1070 AM
www.audacy.com
Audacy has issued another statement on how the CBS News Radio shut down affects Audacy owned stations like WBBM, KNX and others around the country that are going to lose their affiliation. So far we mainly seen local talent issue responses through their shows but not from Audacy management.
CBS News shuts down radio unit amid division-wide cuts
CBS News Radio will stop offering its service to its 700 affiliate stations on May 22.
www.latimes.com
Here are some of the staff on the TV side that is being removed from CBS News due to the company wide cuts. But then again they got overshadowed by the elimination of CBS News Radio at the same time their removal took place.
with Omar Villafranca & David Schechter being former reporters at Dallas TV stations, wonder if Omar rejoins KXAS NBC 5 or joins either WFAA or KDFW Fox 4 or just join ABC News or NBC News, meanwhile Schechter on the other hand, wonder if he'll be willing to return to WFAA since he left WFAA for that job at CBS news. as for Dave Malkoff, i can see him be rehired by The Weather Channel or just join Fox Weather or pull a "Ryan Hall" and go full YouTube weatherman.CBS News shuts down radio unit amid division-wide cuts
CBS News Radio will stop offering its service to its 700 affiliate stations on May 22.
Here are some of the staff on the TV side that is being removed from CBS News due to the company wide cuts. But then again they got overshadowed by the elimination of CBS News Radio at the same time their removal took place.
CBS News shuts down radio unit amid division-wide cuts
CBS News Radio will stop offering its service to its 700 affiliate stations on May 22.
Here are some of the staff on the TV side that is being removed from CBS News due to the company wide cuts. But then again they got overshadowed by the elimination of CBS News Radio at the same time their removal took place.
It looks like Bari Weiss tried to kill two (or more) birds with one stone. Yes, there is cost-cutting because of low ratings and lack of advertiser or younger generation support, but if you look at the list of who was cut, it's clear that political priorities were very much involved.