53-400: London After Dark was a joint venture radio program between CBS Radio and BBC Radio that ran during the 1940 London Blitz . The show began on August 24, 1940 when CBS News Chief Paul White and CBS European Events Director Edward R. Murrow began to arrange the show by cable and short wave conference. Murrow lined up nine commentators from America, Britain and Canada, with the help of
106-412: A 24/7 sports radio network, " CBS Sports Radio ," in fall 2012. It was distributed through Cumulus Media Networks , owned by Cumulus Media . (Cumulus Media Networks was merged into Westwood One in 2013, following Cumulus' acquisition of Westwood One.) In 2017, CBS Sports Radio was sold to Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ) after it acquired CBS Radio. It now uses the title "Infinity Sports Network." While
159-587: A half-interest in what became the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928, and became its president. (In 1938, CBS bought its former parent, Columbia Records.) For more about the network's history, see CBS . On February 2, 2017, CBS Corporation announced that its shareholders had acquired a majority stake in Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ), whose corporate management will continue to oversee the company along with CBS's radio assets. The merger
212-527: A hot talk format. The only remaining show still on air is The Sports Junkies on WJFK 106.7 FM DC. All other shows broke up or were canceled. Some, including The Big O & Dukes Show and The Mike O'Meara Show, have been reborn as podcasts. CBS Radio owned the majority of stations in the United States that broadcast the Jack FM format, a radio format that incorporates all types of popular music from
265-737: A lawsuit filed by ABS Entertainment over the use of pre-1972 sound recordings, which are subject to common law state copyright and not federal law, on CBS Radio's oldies stations. ABS argued that because pre-1972 works are not subject to federal copyright, they are not subject to the federal laws providing compulsory licenses for performing the recordings on terrestrial radio and via non-interactive digital streams, and require permission. CBS, however, argued that it did not play pre-1972 sound recordings, but remastered versions of recordings published from compilations with copyrights registered after 1972, making them separate works subject to federal copyright and eligible for compulsory licenses. The court ruled that
318-545: A major broadcast television network, as NBC divested its radio interests in the 1980s, and ABC sold off its division to Citadel Broadcasting (now part of Cumulus Media ) in 2007. CBS Radio is one of the oldest units within CBS Corporation, and has been around since 1928. However, the actual CBS Radio Network (now CBS News Radio ) was launched in 1927, when CBS itself was known as United Independent Broadcasters. Columbia Records later joined in and that company
371-553: A morning talk show hosted by Michael Smerconish , based at WPHT Philadelphia , on some of its owned-and-operated stations. CBS handled the syndication of Grayson's show itself, while syndication for Smerconish's show to non-CBS stations had been outsourced to Dial Global (which at that time was not involved with the CBS Radio Network itself). Grayson's show, Overnight America , also entered national syndication via Dial Global on January 30, 2012. Smerconish discontinued
424-584: A pre-arrangement in the 2015 agreement where WSCR would take over airing games after letting the rights to the Chicago White Sox go after the 2015 season (which now broadcast on WGN (AM) ). Prior to the merger with Entercom, CBS Radio operated nearly all of the all-news radio stations in the United States. They included: As part of the merger and in order to comply with FCC Regulations, CBS Radio divested WBZ and ownership of that station
477-560: A year, and officially closed on November 30. Several other stations, most in smaller markets, were also sold to companies like Border Media Partners and Peak Media Corporation. On April 30, 2008, CBS Radio and AOL entered a partnership (following the dissolution of partnership between AOL and XM Satellite Radio due to the change in Internet royalty rates). The AOL Radio player powered by CBS Radio featured over 200 CBS Radio stations, along with over 200 AOL Radio stations, combining two of
530-901: Is a "melting icecube" and that CBS Corporation would be better off selling the entire radio unit rather than "waiting a couple of years and selling the rest for less." On December 15, 2008, CBS Radio and Clear Channel Communications reached an agreement to swap seven stations. In this deal, Clear Channel acquired WQSR in Baltimore , Maryland, KBKS in Seattle, Washington , KLTH and KXJM in Portland, Oregon , and KQJK in Sacramento, California ; and CBS Radio would get KHMX and KLOL in Houston, Texas . The deal closed on April 1, 2009. On December 20, 2008, CBS Radio announced that it would sell
583-1153: Is now known as WHSQ), and several other all-news and news-talk stations. They include KNX and KNX-FM in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, KCBS in San Francisco, KRLD in Dallas , KYW in Philadelphia , WTOP-FM in Washington , WBZ in Boston , WWJ in Detroit, WCCO in Minneapolis , KXNT in Las Vegas , KMOX in St. Louis , and WTIC in Hartford . ( WINS and WINS-FM in New York do not carry
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#1732779994661636-453: Is owned by iHeartMedia , and licenses use of the NBC name and audio from NBC News . CBS News Radio is one of the two national news services distributed by Skyview Networks, which transmits national news, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, weather, video news and other information to radio and television stations, as well as traffic reporting services. The network
689-531: Is the second-oldest unit of Paramount Global after Paramount Pictures . CBS Radio traces its roots to CBS's predecessor, United Independent Broadcasters, founded in 1927 with 47 network affiliates . The next year, Columbia Records invested in the radio network, which was named the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. Eventually, the record company pulled its backing from the struggling web. William S. Paley bought
742-591: The BBC and the CBC , and set them up all over London with microphones. The commentators featured on the first edition of London After Dark were Murrow, CBC radio reporter Robert Bowman , Raymond Glendenning , Larry LeSueur , Eric Sevareid , Vincent Sheean , Michael Standing , Wynford Vaughan-Thomas , and J. B. Priestley . The program opens with light organ music played by Canadian-born theatre organist Sandy MacPherson . The first commentator heard on London After Dark
795-705: The New York Yankees (they had broadcast the Mets until 2014) and WSCR is the flagship station of the Chicago Cubs . In Philadelphia, WPHT , a frequency that had been the longtime home of the Philadelphia Phillies before parting ways after the 2001 season, reacquired the team's broadcast rights in 2005. As of 2012, those games are now simulcast on sister station WIP-FM . KRLD-FM in Dallas
848-645: The HD2 channel of KCBS-FM . Much like its competitor Kiss FM , AMP broadcasts contemporary hit radio/top 40 music. In February 2009, the first AMP station was launched in Los Angeles under the callsign KAMP-FM. Over the years, CBS Radio expanded the AMP brand and the CHR/Top 40 format to its stations in Detroit, Boston, Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, and lastly Dallas. Since the Entercom acquisition in November 2017, all
901-557: The acquisition of KOME , an FM radio station that served the San Francisco Bay Area . It became a publicly traded company twice, in 1986, and again in 1992. Westinghouse Electric Corporation acquired CBS, Inc. in 1995 and then acquired Infinity Broadcasting in 1997. Westinghouse, which produced the first radio broadcast on November 2, 1920, with KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , would later change its name to
954-681: The biggest AC format removal of the company dropping AC for hot adult contemporary on Washington, D.C. 's WIAD in March, followed by New York City 's WWFS on October 12 (both in the Eastern Time Zone ). On August 1, WCFS-FM Chicago removed its AC format for all-news to simulcast WBBM (AM) . By November 2011, WLTE in Minneapolis / St. Paul removed the AC format for Christmas music , only to transition to country music as KMNB on December 26. On April 9, 2012, CBS Radio announced that it
1007-578: The crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." Vincent Sheean was up next on that first edition of London After Dark . Sheean spoke briefly on the silent streets of Piccadilly Circus before the program went to some interviews with trainmen in Euston Station by the BBC. Finally the show wound up with J.B. Priestley in Whitehall . CBS Radio CBS Radio
1060-657: The entire Denver cluster (this includes three radio stations) to Wilks Broadcasting for $ 19.5 Million, including KIMN , KWOF , and KXKL-FM . On August 10, 2009, CBS Radio announced that it would sell the entire Portland cluster (this includes four radio stations) to Alpha Broadcasting for $ 40 Million. The stations included in the sale are KCMD , KINK , KUFO , and KUPL . On February 4, 2010, all CBS Radio stations, as well as AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio restricted all non U.S. listeners from streaming online content. CBS Radio redirected to sister property Last.fm . In July 2010, CBS Radio launched Radio.com . 2011 saw
1113-530: The era of network-owned radio stations in America involving the original Big Three ( ABC , NBC , and CBS ). ABC, however, still owned a few stations outside its original network at the time, primarily under the ESPN Radio umbrella. Following the purchase, Entercom became the second-largest owner of radio stations in the United States in terms of revenue, with a total of 244 stations, and operations in 23 of
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#17327799946611166-413: The establishment of the original CBS Radio Network in 1927, the most recent radio division was formed by the 1997 acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting by CBS owner Westinghouse .In 1999, Infinity became a division of the original Viacom ; in 2005, Viacom spun CBS and Infinity Broadcasting back into a separate company, and the division was renamed CBS Radio. It was the last radio group left to be tied to
1219-601: The imaginative Network of the Americas (La Cadena de Las Americas) in 1942. This innovative radio network beamed both news and cultural programming live to North and South America in support of cultural diplomacy and Pan Americanism in accordance with President Franklin Roosevelt 's Good Neighbor policy during World War II. The company that would become CBS Radio was founded in 1972 as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation by Michael A. Wiener and Gerald Carrus, with
1272-685: The largest online radio networks and giving millions of listeners unlimited and free access to a diverse array of music and programming including news, sports and talk. These stations were folded into the AOL Radio mobile app. In 2008, CBS started the process of paring down its station holdings, with a particular focus on ridding itself of stations in mid-sized markets, and markets where there are no television stations for synergistic advantages. On July 31, 2008, CBS Radio announced that it would sell 50 more radio stations in 12 mid-size markets. however some companies like RBC Capital Markets said CBS Radio
1325-536: The menu, eight hors d'oeuvres and eight different kinds of meat and talked to famed Chef François Latry . The atmosphere at the Savoy was seemingly joyous. The program then jumped to an anti-aircraft battery and then to and Air Raid Precautions Station. Then, onto Hammersmith Palais , London's big dance hall where Eric Sevareid was set up and remarked, "There was an air raid alarm, as you know, 15 minutes ago. The orchestra leader simply announced they'd go on playing as
1378-585: The mid-50s to the present. These included stations in Los Angeles, Dallas , Seattle , Minneapolis and many other cities. New York City, Chicago and Houston had Jack FM stations, too; the New York City station, WCBS-FM has reverted to its traditional oldies format, and Jack (which had been renamed ToNY) was carried on its HD2 subchannel. CBS Radio owned "AMP Radio", a branding created by KROQ-FM program director Kevin Weatherly and APD John Michael on
1431-652: The morning show in 2011 and Grayson's show ended its national distribution a few years later. Three of CBS's television programs are currently simulcast over CBS News Radio affiliates; those are Face the Nation , 60 Minutes , and the CBS Evening News . Some stations, including WCBS in New York and WBZ in Boston, aired the entire Evening News . In addition, the Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten List
1484-597: The morning show, which airs at 8 am ET and 7 am PT, while Jennifer Keiper hosts the evening edition at 7 pm ET. Each Friday afternoon, the network also distributes the CBS News Weekend Roundup , an hour-long look at the top stories of the week, hosted by correspondent Allison Keyes. CBS News Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Jim Krasula, Peter King, Linda Kenyon, Cami McCormick , Vicki Barker, Elaine Cobbe, Sabina Castelfranco and Robert Berger. Mark Knoller
1537-826: The nation's capital. During the overnight hours, the CBS News 24/7 streaming service carries a simulcast of CBS News Radio's top-of-the-hour reports. In March 2021, CBS News Radio hired John Batchelor to host a nightly newsmagazine, Eye on the World . Batchelor had previously hosted an eponymous show that was syndicated through Westwood One and, before that, through ABC Radio Networks . CBS News Radio offers several weekly one-hour programs to its affiliates for airing on Saturdays and Sundays. They include The CBS News Weekend Roundup with Allison Keyes, CBS Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg , Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger and The Takeout with Major Garrett . Historically,
1590-577: The network's World News Roundup is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U.S., the title of longest-running network radio show of any kind goes to another CBS Radio program— Music and the Spoken Word , a half-hour of music and inspirational thought featuring the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square . It began on July 15, 1929, and currently airs each Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern Time. (The longest running radio show of any kind
1643-587: The network's Newsfeed service. Many of the aforementioned outlets make heavy use of the CBS network feed material throughout their broadcast day. The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the CBS World News Roundup , U.S. broadcasting's oldest news series. The Roundup dates back to a special network broadcast on March 13, 1938, featuring live reports from Europe on Germany's annexation of Austria . Since 2010, Steve Kathan has anchored
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1696-403: The newscasts but make use of voicers and actualities from CBS News Radio.) CBS News Radio offers hourly News-on-the-Hour newscasts (available in three- and six-minute versions) and a one-minute newscast at 31 minutes past the hour. They are sent to member stations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the over-the-air product, reports and actualities are made available to affiliates via
1749-564: The original CBS Corporation, and reorganize all of its radio properties (including its own Group W stations), as well as its outdoor advertising business, under the Infinity Broadcasting Corporation name. Westinghouse acquired American Radio Systems in September 1997. In 2000, CBS Corporation was merged into Viacom . On December 31, 2005, Viacom spun out its motion picture and cable television assets, with
1802-539: The potential buyers. In July 2016, CBS Radio filed for a planned IPO, which would have spun off the subsidiary as a separate, publicly traded company. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced that it had agreed to merge with Entercom , at the time the fourth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States; the sale was to be conducted using a Reverse Morris Trust so that it would be tax-free. To comply with federal ownership limits Entercom had plans to divest 14 stations. The transaction closed on November 17, 2017, ending
1855-512: The remainder maintained as the second CBS Corporation . In anticipation of this, Infinity Broadcasting was reorganized as CBS Radio. In August 2006, CBS Radio announced the sale of its 15 radio stations in Cincinnati, Ohio ; Memphis, Tennessee ; Austin, Texas ; and Rochester, New York to Entercom Communications . This group deal was granted FCC approval in mid-November 2007 after it faced regulatory review and numerous challenges for over
1908-441: The remastered recordings contained "multiple kinds of creative authorship, such as adjustments of equalization, sound editing and channel assignment", with a level of creativity suitable enough to generate a new copyright. On March 15, 2016, CBS Corporation CEO Leslie Moonves stated that the company was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale or spin-off of CBS Radio. Cumulus Media had been named as one of
1961-507: The sports coverage now produced by Westwood One was branded as CBS Radio Sports and, like the news features, was associated with the CBS Radio Network. However, after CBS began managing the original Westwood One in the mid-1990s, the sports broadcasts came under the Westwood One banner (with both identities used in the late 1990s. It was a practice that would continue even after CBS stopped managing Westwood One in 2007. CBS launched
2014-532: The stations in the aforementioned markets, except for the Los Angeles flagship station, gradually flipped formats. By 2021, the AMP Radio branding was discontinued. CBS Radio was the largest broadcaster of local Major League Baseball broadcasts. In 2005 and 2007 respectively, CBS dropped the St. Louis Cardinals from KMOX and the Pittsburgh Pirates from KDKA, ending two long relationships between
2067-401: The suit, and earlier that day, prior to CBS' announcement, held a press conference, discussing how CBS added to the media attention, even booking him for appearances on Late Show with David Letterman and 60 Minutes . "I made them millions of dollars," Stern argued. "If I was hurting them, why did they keep me on the air for fourteen months? How can you have it both ways?" When a settlement
2120-512: The teams and their flagship stations. However, KMOX reacquired the Cardinals' broadcast rights in 2011, and KDKA's FM sister all-sports station acquired the Pirates' broadcast rights in 2012, in addition to New York Yankees games being renewed on WCBS after the conclusion of the 2011 season, they would have the rights until the end of the 2013 season. CBS's WFAN is the flagship station of
2173-416: The top 25 markets. The CBS News Radio and CBS Sports Radio networks were not included in the sale. However, CBS Sports Radio was continued to be broadcast by Entercom stations that carried its national programming. Hosts and employees of CBS Sports Radio (which has since rebranded as Infinity Sports Network ) are now employees of Audacy, Inc. (formerly Entercom). From 1985 to 2005, Infinity/CBS Radio
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2226-412: Was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation and founded in 1928, with consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s, and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s. The broadcasting company was sold to Entercom (now known as Audacy, Inc. ) on November 17, 2017. Although CBS's involvement in radio dates back to
2279-463: Was also broadcast by the network in a short-form-feature format until the show's conclusion with David Letterman's retirement in 2015. Other public-affairs features include CBS Healthwatch with Dr. Emily Senay, Raising Our Kids (formerly suffixed with in the 90s during that decade) with former WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, What's in the News, and "Eye on Washington," a daily look at goings on in
2332-464: Was announced on May 26, 2006, Sirius gained exclusive rights to Stern's back catalogue of radio broadcasts at WXRK from November 1985 to December 2005, totalling almost 23,000 hours. The rights, costing Sirius approximately $ 2 million, equates to approximately $ 87 per-hour of tape. As of 2009 , the Free FM branding has been discontinued in all markets, and no former Free FM station continues to have
2385-585: Was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th. The CBS News Radio network service will continue to be managed by CBS News. On August 2, 2017, CBS announced that it had signed a contract with Skyview Networks for distribution of CBS News Radio. This went into effect January 1, 2018. Today, CBS News Radio is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, including flagship station WCBS in New York (which ended their all-news format in August 2024 and
2438-967: Was cancelled four months later and CBS Radio announced that Opie and Anthony of XM Radio would replace Roth on the stations that carried him, despite the irony that the two were fired after the sex act controversy inside of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York . Adam Carolla's show was also later canceled. On February 28, 2006, CBS Radio announced it had filed a lawsuit against Stern, his agent Don Buchwald, and Sirius, arguing that Stern promoted Sirius "to enrich himself unfairly". It also claimed that Stern "repeatedly and willfully" breached his contract with CBS, "misappropriated millions of dollars worth [of airtime]" for his own benefit and "fraudulently concealed" his performance-related interests in Sirius stock. The suit, filed in New York State Court, sought compensatory and punitive damages . Stern anticipated
2491-518: Was none other than Edward Murrow himself. He broadcast live from Trafalgar Square in London , a broadcast now world-famous. "This is Trafalgar Square. The noise you hear at the moment is the sound of the air-raid siren," Murrow said as he calmly described the scene. From the square that first program moved on to Robert Bowman who was stationed in the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel . Bowman described
2544-540: Was renamed the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. In September 1927, Columbia Records sold the company to William S. Paley and in 1928, Paley streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1940, Paley also joined forces with the journalist Edmund Chester at CBS Radio and Nelson Rockefeller at the Department of State's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to launch
2597-577: Was selling its West Palm Beach cluster of stations to Palm Beach Broadcasting for $ 50 Million. On December 1, 2014, CBS Radio traded 14 stations—its Charlotte, North Carolina and Tampa Bay clusters as well as WIP (now WTEL (AM) ) in Philadelphia —to Beasley Broadcast Group in exchange for WRDW-FM (now WTDY-FM ) and WXTU in Philadelphia and WKIS , WPOW , and WQAM in Miami . In May 2016, Judge Percy Anderson ruled in favor of CBS Radio in
2650-604: Was the flagship station for the Texas Rangers before the 2011 season. In 2015, the Chicago Cubs moved its radio broadcasts to CBS property WBBM (AM) from its longtime home of WGN (AM) . That same year, the Baltimore Orioles began its second stint on all-sports WJZ-FM , four years after it was moved back to its traditional home of WBAL (AM) . In 2016, the Cubs rights moved to sister station WSCR as part of
2703-421: Was the home of controversial and top-rated talk show host Howard Stern , who left for subscription-based satellite radio due to increasing FCC and station censorship. In January 2006, rock star David Lee Roth , Rover's Morning Glory , and talk show host Adam Carolla replaced Stern in most major radio markets, and CBS Radio launched its new " Free FM " hot talk format in many of these markets. Roth 's show
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#17327799946612756-511: Was the network's long-time White House correspondent. Knoller often made additional appearances on CBS Television, especially if he was the day's pool reporter for the White House Press Corps. Knoller no longer filed radio reports after about 2011, transitioning to report mostly on twitter. He left CBS in 2020. In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson, based at KMOX St. Louis , and
2809-669: Was transferred to iHeartMedia . CBS News Radio CBS News Radio , formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as the CBS Radio Network , is a radio network that provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by Paramount Global . It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks (CBS, NBC Radio Network and Mutual Broadcasting System ) still operating and still owned by its original parent company, even though CBS sold its owned and operated radio stations in 2017. The current NBC Radio Network
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