Agree. However if CBS made the mistake of not renewing the copyright then it’s not stealing. It does make me wonder if you were due residuals and copyright owner doesn’t renew copyright and it falls into public domain, do you have any legal action/claim against (the now former) copyright owner
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Questions About CBS Radio Features
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Complicated situation. The first thing to look at is your contract. Are there terms or limits in the contract? The rights of actors are different from the rights of the copyright holder.
Thank you for the information about the two different Tony Roberts. I never knew (though I should have guessed) it.
Conceivably, somebody who could see the value in selling the audio of television programming that is not critically dependent on the pictures. 60 Minutes or Face the Nation aren't the only audio that might be transferable - Jeopardy mostly does not need pictures to be entertaining. Such a project would take some work. But the providers of those programs will be earning money they don't have now and content starved radio gets something more than tunes, partisan shouting or last night's sports scores to offer. You know the business better than I do, but it doesn't seem to me that it would be impossible to figure out.
2-to-5-minute news presentations are what CBS Radio Network had largely dwindled down to. Similarly sized news is available from a lot of sources which is what ABC will now be contracted to provide. Are they going to be offering This Week or any other programming? If not, (or even if they are) there would be plenty of hours in the week for a news talker to spice up their show with additional syndicated content.
Something that ABC and others need to consider is that CBS got out of radio because they claimed they couldn't see a path to making the math work. Aside from some very big stations, most of CBS 700 were on small AMs that get older demographics. What is going to be different for ABC, if all they are doing is being the new supplier of that 2-to-5-minute segment?
That's not all they offer.
ABC News Radio - ABC Audio
abcaudio.com
ABC Digital - News/Talk Format - ABC Audio
abcaudio.com
ABC Air Power - ABC Audio
abcaudio.com
ABC Digital - Music Formats - ABC Audio
abcaudio.com
I think if you click on each of those links, and see the options offered, you can understand why Audacy stations chose ABC.
Keep in mind that ABC TV also has a number of events, such as the Grammy Awards, and they use radio in an integrated way to promote what they do on TV.
KNX 1070 also aired the audio from 60 Minutes from 7-8 pm on Sunday nights. Another CBS TV program that be heard on radio.
Stealing from people is legal now according to a certain slush fund.
CBS News Radio had a number of hour-long shows available to its affiliates for weekend use:
--Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger. She'd discuss investing and answer listeners' questions about 401Ks, IRAs, retirement, capital gains tax, things like that. I think she is still the money correspondent for the TV network.
--Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg. Like Schlesinger, I believe he is still the travel correspondent for the TV network.
--Eye on Veterans (not sure of the host).
--The Take Away with Major Garrett.
--CBS Weekend News Roundup with Alison Keys. This was discontinued a few months before the decision to end the radio network. Keys was still doing weekend newscasts until the end.
--CBS Eye on The World with John Batchelor. This was a four-hour weeknight program but I understand last year it switched its distribution to a lesser syndicator.
--Prime Time with John Dickerson. This was a weeknight hour-long show but he left the network last year.
And the weekend TV programs mentioned above, 60 Minutes and Face The Nation. Someone mentioned that C-Span Radio runs the audio from all the weekend news shows, Face The Nation, Meet The Press, Fox News Sunday, ABC This Week and CNN. I think Bloomberg stations do the same, 1130 NYC, 92.9 Boston and 99.1 Washington. So even with the end of the radio network, I imagine some radio company is syndicating Face The Nation as it does these other weekend news shows.
--Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger. She'd discuss investing and answer listeners' questions about 401Ks, IRAs, retirement, capital gains tax, things like that. I think she is still the money correspondent for the TV network.
--Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg. Like Schlesinger, I believe he is still the travel correspondent for the TV network.
--Eye on Veterans (not sure of the host).
--The Take Away with Major Garrett.
--CBS Weekend News Roundup with Alison Keys. This was discontinued a few months before the decision to end the radio network. Keys was still doing weekend newscasts until the end.
--CBS Eye on The World with John Batchelor. This was a four-hour weeknight program but I understand last year it switched its distribution to a lesser syndicator.
--Prime Time with John Dickerson. This was a weeknight hour-long show but he left the network last year.
And the weekend TV programs mentioned above, 60 Minutes and Face The Nation. Someone mentioned that C-Span Radio runs the audio from all the weekend news shows, Face The Nation, Meet The Press, Fox News Sunday, ABC This Week and CNN. I think Bloomberg stations do the same, 1130 NYC, 92.9 Boston and 99.1 Washington. So even with the end of the radio network, I imagine some radio company is syndicating Face The Nation as it does these other weekend news shows.
Some of those (like Major Garrett) are mainly podcasts, not radio shows.
A year ago, Audacy announced a deal with CBS to distribute its podcasts. Not sure of the current status:
CBS And Audacy Podcasts Expand Sales Deal.
Eight years after Audacy bought CBS Radio, there continues to be close ties between the companies. CBS has inked a multi-year sales and distribution partnership that will mean Audacy Podcasts
Podcasts or television shows on CBS News 24/7, the network's news streaming service.
The line between podcast, streaming video and other distribution is getting blurred all the time. Ezra Klein does a podcast for the NY Times. But it's also available in video form and it gets picked up as a radio show by some public radio stations too.