I don't expect a "change in direction." Linear media is in decline regardless of who runs it.
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"Newsroom culture clash" at CBS News
- Thread starter Mark Roberts
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I don't expect a "change in direction." Linear media is in decline regardless of who runs it.
The Ellisons seem happy with the train wreck they have now.
They paid a lot for it, so they can do whatever they want to it.
I can confirm that in my area the station with CBS has already changed. "America is listening to Fox News." The co-owned conservative talk station was also doing Fox. However, even though this station was doing the full CBS newscast, it cut short the 10:00 news at the first commercial break and went back to oldies.
Lisa Ling joins Spectrum News as outlet expands to Sacramento, San Francisco
May 20, 2026 - Charter's Spectrum News has hired Lisa Ling as part of an expansion effort in Northern California, with new reports coming from Sacramento and San Francisco.
thedesk.net
Lisa ling moves from CBS News to Spectrum News according to this release.
I don't what stations you're referring to, but from what you described, their choice seems to reflect the political views of the owner. Adding FOX to their music station, and having it on their conservative talker.
Scoop: Audacy news stations, once owned by CBS, switch to ABC News Radio
Audacy has swapped CBS News Radio for hourly headlines delivered by ABC News Radio as the former network prepares to shut down this weekend.
thedesk.net
Here is the big one Audacy owned stations switch affiliations from CBS Radio News to ABC News Radio. Does anybody have access to the CBS Radio News feed if so where. I tried Tunein, and Audacy but was later told that it was redirected to the TV Audio feed of CBS News.
The closest location is at Iheart app and the world news roundup feed is active for now given that they have an episode released on 5/21/2026 even though they have to deal with some of their former affiliates switching networks this week. The best thing I can tell you is to look around audio apps carrying CBS Radio News till the shutdown and record an aircheck from them for the last time. OTA Radio has left them and went somewhere else.
As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest
There was once a bipartisan consensus that media power had to be regulated if democracy were to survive.
theconversation.com
...And the more people dessert what they need to hear in order to hear only what they want to hear, the greater grows the political and personal polarization within our own country. And *that* could ultimately bring about another war between the states, like what happened between 1861 and 1865.
Keep in mind that what the president and his followers want is to eliminate any opposing views. So in their mind, it is the media itself that is causing the polarization. If everyone would just submit to the views of the government, there would be no discord. They feel the media is sowing the seeds of insurrection. That's why they call it fake news.
See today’s Russia and China for prime examples of this. That is why Trump is so enamored with Putin and Xi.
I just heard the last ever bottom of the hour update from CBS News Radio. "CBS News Radio special update. After 99 years CBS News radio is going off the air and we wanted to say goodbye. Then they played clips of a few of the anchors saying goodbye. It ended with "This is CBS News Radio, I'm Christopher Cruse." I am sad its no more, I will miss getting the news updates from them. Listening over this last week I noticed they thanked the copy editors and producers by name they worked with.
I hope the network's employees were reassigned to other divisions of CBS because unemployment sucks. I hope everything that's possible to archive will be. But the bottom line is that CBS Radio as a network (regardless of what name it used) was a dinosaur who's time has been gone for decades.
Really, how many people tuned into a CBS Radio affiliate just to listen to World News Roundup or 5 minute updates, while ignoring all other content? Not many, I'll wager, especially in this century. I've listened to CBS-owned all-news stations for over 50 years, and the network updates were the least important content. Whether they'll come from ABC, Fox, or whoever else, doesn't matter. I listen for local news, not anything else.
OTR dramas and comedies ended in 1962. Ed Morrow has been dead since 1965. Arthur Godfrey left the network in 1972. Lowell Thomas aired his last newscast in 1976. The CBS Radio Mystery Theater has been gone since 1982. All quality shows, to be sure, but that time is gone other than on YouTube. It does no good to live in the past, but remembering it is OK. Raise a toast to what was, but broadcasting in general, and CBS in particular, will move on. No affiliates are going off the air because of this, and CBS as a broadcasting entity will continue.
Really, how many people tuned into a CBS Radio affiliate just to listen to World News Roundup or 5 minute updates, while ignoring all other content? Not many, I'll wager, especially in this century. I've listened to CBS-owned all-news stations for over 50 years, and the network updates were the least important content. Whether they'll come from ABC, Fox, or whoever else, doesn't matter. I listen for local news, not anything else.
OTR dramas and comedies ended in 1962. Ed Morrow has been dead since 1965. Arthur Godfrey left the network in 1972. Lowell Thomas aired his last newscast in 1976. The CBS Radio Mystery Theater has been gone since 1982. All quality shows, to be sure, but that time is gone other than on YouTube. It does no good to live in the past, but remembering it is OK. Raise a toast to what was, but broadcasting in general, and CBS in particular, will move on. No affiliates are going off the air because of this, and CBS as a broadcasting entity will continue.
Not likely since just last week they announced another round of job cuts at CBS News.
CBS News Makes New Round Of Job Cuts
CBS News Radio will close after nearly 100 years of operation, the company announced.
This comes after a previous round of job cuts
Paramount Layoffs Hit CBS News: Morning And Evening Streaming Shows Canceled, Saturday AM Hosts Out Amid Overhaul, Johannesburg Bureau Closed
Paramount's cuts across the company hit CBS News on Wednesday, with the streaming editions of CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News canceled.
deadline.com
The good news is all employees are covered by severance deals made by the union. The amount of severance is based on years of employment.
CBS Radio as a network went away in the 90s. It was combined into Westwood One. Since then, CBS News Radio has had a series of outside distributors, most recently Audacy. So the only people laid off were the news people: anchors, reporters, writers, producers.
Maybe. The fact of the matter is that broadcasting in general is declining, and the company that bought CBS didn't spend billions for a declining business.
I listened to the CBS World News Roundup every morning (at least the eight minutes WBBM carried), then went on my way.
I did as well from KMOX at 6 am central time.