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Weiss and Cibrowski announce they’re shutting down CBS News Radio, which has ~700 affiliated stations, on May 22. "Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”

Thus, the CBS Radio Network (b. 1927) will be terminated at the age of 99.

CBS Radio was the foundation of American broadcast journalism. Over five decades I filed hundreds of news reports for it and felt immense pride to have been on the same network as Murrow, Sevareid, Smith, Collingwood, Cronkite, Edwards, Trout, Townsend, Kuralt, Rather, Stahl, Knoller & Portnoy.

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@newsguyusa @janeishly It's always sad to see a reliable service end. But, if they had kept it, they'd just turn it into another People's Receiver:

"It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio." -- Joseph Goebbels

So maybe it's better this way: we can rebuild this after we defeat the Fascists.