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26-430: WGBI may refer to: An A.M. radio station on 910 kHz at Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, which held the callsign WGBI from 1925 until 2005. An F.M. radio station on 101.3 MHz at Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, which held the callsign WGBI-FM from 1948 until 1993. A television station on Channel 22 at Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, which formerly held

52-412: 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

78-545: 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 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

104-553: 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

130-631: A repeater of WILK , existing mainly to improve its signal in Scranton. While WILK's daytime signal easily covers most of Scranton, the northern portion of the city only gets a grade B signal. At night, WILK must power down to 1,000 watts, leaving most of Scranton with only a grade B signal. In 2005, Entercom flipped a station in the Madison, Wisconsin , area to adult hits ; the WBZU call letters were parked in Scranton, ending 80 years as WGBI. In 2007,

156-574: A rival Boston station from using the call sign and trading on its 52-year legacy in Boston (including 50 years as a rock station). ** = Audacy operates pursuant to a local marketing agreement with Martz Communications Group . CBS Radio Network 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

182-1407: 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 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

208-689: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WAAF (AM) WAAF is one of three simulcast radio stations in Northeastern Pennsylvania that call themselves WILK Newsradio , along with 103.1 WILK-FM in Avoca and 980 WILK in Wilkes-Barre . Studios and offices are on Route 315 in Pittston . "WILK Newsradio" has a weekday schedule with mostly local hosts. At night,

234-428: The 910 kHz frequency, where it remains to this day. WGBI was a CBS radio network affiliate by the 1940s. The Megargee family's company, Scranton Broadcasters, put an FM station on the air (now WGGY ) and Northeastern Pennsylvania's second television station (now WYOU ). The Megargees held on to the radio stations well into the 1990s. By the turn of the century, WGBI had been sold to Entercom (now Audacy) and become

260-655: 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 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

286-463: 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 is owned by iHeartMedia , and licenses use of

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312-558: The callsign WGBI-TV from 1953 until 1958. FTSE World Government Bond Index Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WGBI . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WGBI&oldid=1222136557 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

338-559: The frequency of 1250 kHz in 1925, as WGBI. It was owned by Frank S. Megargee. In 1927, the station moved to 1300 kHz, which it time shared with Scranton's other radio station, WQAN (now WEJL ). The two stations, which were time sharing a single frequency, moved to 880 kHz in 1931, and then again to 910 kHz by 1941 (the later move, forced by a nationwide frequency reassignment, took place in 1941). WGBI remained at 910 kHz when WQAN moved on to its own broadcast tower and new frequency of 630 kHz in 1948. This meant that WGBI had full-time use of

364-599: 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

390-597: 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

416-826: 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,

442-577: 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

468-587: 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

494-672: The new transmitter tower location also caused WBZU to slightly reduce its power to keep within Federal Communications Commission rules on signal strength and coverage. On February 26, 2020, the WAAF call letters were transferred to WBZU from 107.3 FM in Boston , which had held the call sign since 1968. When Entercom announced they would sell WAAF to the Educational Media Foundation , the call letters were "parked" in Scranton, preventing

520-403: 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

546-656: 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 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

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572-507: 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

598-465: The station moved its transmitter to the tower location atop the Times Building at 149 Penn Avenue in downtown Scranton also being used by WEJL's transmitter. The full-time switch over to the new transmitter facility and tower location happened on August 2, 2007. This tower sharing arrangement repeats an arrangement the stations shared over 60 years ago in their early history. The efficiency of

624-769: The stations air nationally syndicated shows including Dave Ramsey , Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and America in The Morning . Weekends feature shows on money, health, technology and science. Weekend syndicated hosts include Kim Komando , Clark Howard , Dr. Michio Kaku and Art Bell Somewhere in Time . Some hours on weekends are paid brokered programming . Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio . The stations also carries play-by-play sports including Penn State Nittany Lions football and basketball , as well as Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins minor league hockey . The station signed on

650-463: 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

676-511: 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

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