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RAB910

(3,445 posts)
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 08:58 AM Sep 2020

CBS News radio in NYC area

They are what I consider a neutral news source (the competing news radio 1010 WINS is in the tank for the GOP). I was troubled that in their political coverage they had 4 sound bites from the Con to just one by Biden. This how the MSM helped the traitor and thief seize the White House in the first place and it's pretty clear they plan on doing the same again. This was a neutral news day as they were just reporting on their competing rallies.

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CBS News radio in NYC area (Original Post) RAB910 Sep 2020 OP
Sadly I've witnessed the devolution of NYC radio generally for more than two decades. no_hypocrisy Sep 2020 #1
Thanks for the Concern! DarthDem Sep 2020 #2
Concer n noted, RAB910! obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #3
They are not neutral. CBS has jumped the shark and is now rightwing. Demsrule86 Sep 2020 #4

no_hypocrisy

(45,770 posts)
1. Sadly I've witnessed the devolution of NYC radio generally for more than two decades.
Fri Sep 18, 2020, 09:05 AM
Sep 2020

In the late 1990s, WABC and WWOR ran about a 50/50 ratio of liberal talk show programs. And WEVD was all liberal. And they represented the demographics of the NYC metropolitan listeners.

In 2001, The Forward sold WEVD to Disney/ABC corporation and it became a sports station.

Air America was in existence for maybe 3-4 years and went off the air.

WABC and WWOR became the Fox News radio stations with Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, all syndicated radio programs. There were a few local radio talk show hosts, but they too pulled conservative.

I'm not surprised that, considering how the majority of talk stations and news stations lean right, WCBS news radio feels the pressure to join the parade, even incrementally.

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