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Another casualty of technology + social justice: CBS News Radio ceases broadcasting tonight.
CBS News Radio, which provides news programming to an estimated 700 stations spanning the United States, will sign off the air Friday night after nearly a century of broadcasting. The storied service, launched in September 1927, was home to broadcast legends Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Charles Osgood, Dan Rather and many other familiar and trusted voices over its decades in operation.
“It’s been around for a long time. Really, an American institution is what we’re losing here,” said Steve Kathan, the longtime anchor of the CBS World News Roundup.
“CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution very important to the development of news other than newspapers,” Rather recently told “CBS Sunday Morning.” “It, for many, many years, was a part, and I would argue not a small part, of what held the country together.”
The decision to shutter the radio news service was announced in March, with the company citing “challenging economic realities.”
Once you cease to be useful to the Black Rider, you will be thrown from the high horse. And if CBS News Radio was a part of holding the country together, it was doing so for the benefit of the ruling elite. Obviously that same elite now has other instruments capable of fulfilling the same function.
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Somebody trusted Dan Rather? No shit. Well, they say there’s one in every bunch.
SeeBS can suck my ass. Coalburt was only a symptom of the rot. Hell, it was bad before Cronkite. F ’em!
Tom762
Amen. And still, I have good memories of riding around in the car with my dad, who always listened to the local AM radio “blowtorch” (which was a CBS affiliate) and hearing the CBS radio sounder music at the top of the hour.
Breakfast on the farm.
‘KMOX, The Voice of St. Louis’.
CBS News and Rex Davis, ‘The Clock-watcher’
Back when ‘news’ was just that and only that
I used to think that, too. Then the CIA declassified the papers where they talk about controlling the press, and Dan’s name is right in there. Fucker was feeding us propaganda the entire time, just like all those before and after him.
Yeah. It’s interesting watching old national news broadcasts on YouTube. Recently looked at one from NBC in 1975, with John Chancellor. Even though there was some bullshit visible to the critical eye, it was an much more tastefully understated presentation, without all the overly dramatic music and graphics that punctuate modern newscasts unnecessarily, and sans all the panelists and opinionating that that make them so damned repellent to watch now.
Chancellor at least “looked” and sounded professional and reasonable (even if in reality he was little different from current news whores). But, that sort of low key approach won’t pull ratings in ADHD clown world Scamerica (not that what they are doing instead is getting many eyeballs, either) so the quality of the presentation has devolved into completely unwatchable/unlistenable shite.
The lead story on that newcast was the Eastern Airlines flight that crashed into the Hudson river on approach for landing, and it got a grand total of 3 minutes of the newscast, including an on site remote. Today, that single story would dominate most of the 30 minute (less commercials) program time allotted. There was significant time spent on international news (concerning the middle east, go figure, and Idi Amin), the sort of stories we’d get virtually no coverage of now. Interesting too that nearly all the ads were from Exxon, along with a Purina cat food, deodorant and hairspray commercials. Not a single fucking ad for a prescription drug to be found (which was disallowed until Regan signed legislation allowing such ads to air on tv).
At least it didn’t absolute repulse me in the way modern tv news does. It was a strange difference to see how it was done back then. I would’ve been a bit over a year old when that originally broadcast, and had no significant recollection of broadcast news much before maybe 1981-82.
In any case, it’s nice that the majors have so thoroughly screwed the pooch and discredited themselves into rank irrelevance. At least it has scuttled the once large scale effectiveness of one of their principal propaganda machines
Yeah, but now we have t he Interwebbies.
“Nine hundred channels and nothing on!”
’bout time.
Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Charles Osgood and Dan Rather were all far left loons that colluded with the See Eye Aaa to spread propaganda throughout the land.
Fuck See Bee Ess news and the horse it road in on.
Here’s what Trump thinks about Coalbear the latest victim of his own stupidity. at See Bee Ess.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/23/us-news/trump-shows-where-he-wants-to-shove-colbert-with-ai-generated-dumpster-slam/
I’m glad that POTUS, who is so busy selecting drapes and color schemes for his many design projects, has time to watch late night comics and spend all night on social media complaining about mediocre comics making bad jokes.
That’s a level of dignity and class that has been missing from the White House.
I could live with his juvenile bullshit if he was actually doing the shit he should be doing. Instead, he has aipac’s hand up his ass (just like a puppet), and so his stupid posturing at idiots is really the least of his sins presently.
Aipac is just one of three in the trinity Trump prostrates himself before, along with Putin and MBS.
Even if he could read the intel needed to make good decisions, he doesn’t have the time between golf, social media and and all the monuments he’s building to put his name and picture on.
If only Trump could give us Obamacare which tripled my healthcare costs, or bring in 40 million illegal aliens because that’s what Americans desire most. And why couldn’t Trump improve on Obama and Biden’s VA programs like tranny surgeries rather than providing better care and staffing, such a mron, not like Obama. Trump should send more on welfare so we can have more learing centers so illegals can improve themselves. Obama and Biden did this and spread the wealth around. And look how diversity improved California, Minnesota, Oregon. Some cities have vastly improved like Chicago, NYC, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland where policies have made comerical property affordable again, some reduced by 50%. Now that’s what I call delivering on their promises. Trump is a piker,, he hasn’t delivered hundreds of billions to Iran to develop nuclear weapons and weapons systems like Obama did. Instead he gave us a relatively brief and bloodless war, unlike the decades of war that were hugely costly and expended hundreds of billions in hardware to no purpose, Trump isn’t a good warmonger like Obama and Biden. And the loser hasn’t been humiliated by our enemies as were Obama and Biden, I mean is this a disaster or what? Well we can always hope for AOC or run Harris again.
Why turn on the radio to listen to fake stories when you can make up stories yourself?
Having lived in the ny am radio listening area, one never forgets the recording of a 66 wpm TTY (teletype for the uninformed) as background noise 100% of the time – I think that was 1010 WINS but it could have been CBS
I remember that as a kid, on tv newscasts as well. Seems like it lasted as constant ambient background noise on many newscasts into the very early 80’s, and maybe hung on a bit longer than that in some locales. I do kind of wonder if at a certain point it was just a sound effect piped in, as those older fully mechanical teleprinters were phased out. Funny too, how one almost never heard the bell, just the non stop chatter of the printing.
There’s a saying in the communication world: if you become predictable you become history, or some sh*t like that. With CBS you already knew what they were going to say. Surprised it took so long. Could their demise have anything to do with DOGE?
CBS Mystery Theater was FUN! I miss old radio dramas and comedies. Like Firesign Theater!
Wait. There was something on CBS other than Radio Mystery Theater?
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away i would listen to the BBC for international news on the SW radio. 40 years ago it was news and just news. no commentary and no opinions. how times have changed.
I don’t listen to any news anymore. I’m in a very good place now off grid. it’s quiet and i’m happy. the rest of the world can go its own way now without me. I can’t change anything so why worry about it.