CBS News Radio: A beacon of broadcast journalism signs off [View all]
Source: CBS News
Updated on: May 10, 2026 / 9:54 AM EDT
Before YouTube and podcasts, before even the nightly television newscasts, millions of people found out what was happening from CBS News Radio. But later this month, after 99 years, CBS News Radio is going silent. CBS executives have cited the changes in how people are getting their news increasingly from social media, and the "challenging economic realities."
Steve Kathan, the current (and final) anchor of the "CBS World News Roundup," discovered CBS News Radio in the 1960s, listening on a transistor radio: "And that's where I heard some of the great CBS News broadcasters," he said. "You were hearing something live. It was a live broadcast."
"Everyone knows the legacy of CBS; everybody knows the power and respect that that name engenders," said program host and correspondent Allison Keyes. She has covered a lot of stories in her more than 25 years in radio, but no other like the one she covered live on September 11, 2001:
"I can hardly breathe. It looks like a nuclear war happened here. You can't see the sky at all. It's all grey smoke.". "People needed to know what was going on that day," Keyes said, "in real time, no filter, no politics. Here's what's happening."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-radio-a-beacon-of-broadcast-journalism-signs-off/
I will certainly miss the parade of correspondents at the top of the hour on my local CBS affiliate (formerly an NBC one until the '90s when all hell broke loose with broadcast deregulation).
Allison Keyes, Christopher Cruz, Jim Krasula, Deborah Rodriguez, Stacy Lyn, and yes even Sabina Castelfranco... (in) "Rome".
My station (KYW) is NOT owned by CBS but by Audacy (as of 2024), which is owned by Soros!
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