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As it Neared a Century of Service CBS Radio News is Defunct

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CBS News Radio, which provides news programming to an estimated 700 stations spanning the United States, signed 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.
 
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Legacy media. Pity, but the old gives way to the new.

At least, if died a dignified death, unlike the horror show that mutated CBS and the Washington Post.

And farewell to Colbert! It's all related.
 
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News was a “feature” on radio, in 1927.
The “wire services” had made the world “smaller”, (in that Americans could hear news from Europe within a day of events), but were expensive, so that only newspapers had access.
People had to wait until their local newspaper had had access to the feed (from the wire services), then print and distribute the news.

With the advent of radio, the news became almost instantaneous. (Which sold more radios.)
 
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It's just not as convenient of a way to consume news media anymore.

Podcast & On-demand services were to this, what Netflix was to Blockbuster.

If there was anyone still listening to news radio, it was likely in the car on their commute to work (if people weren't using Apple or Spotify). Remote work becoming more prevalent probably didn't help with their numbers either.

Plus, the ideological ethos has been tilting more in the direction of "anti-gatekeepers", and that's something that's had pretty broad appeal across the political spectrum. The concept of 3 or 4 major companies holding the exclusive keys to "what's truth - based on how we see it" and "what news is worthy of reporting on vs. which stories should get buried" is a concept that's fallen out of favor across the board.
 
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I heard this is the first step towards getting rid of AM RADIO. AM radio needs to be eliminated, so that tracking information, in cars, can take it's place in the future.

It's good to be tracked everywhere we go. It is for our own good, and it helps generate behavioral data, and is a source of revenue for advertisers, which is good for the economy.
 
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