CBS News will end radio service as Weiss struggles to right ship
Source: Washington Post
March 20, 2026 at 11:08 a.m. EDT
CBS News will end its nearly century-old radio service, CBS News Radio, and cut more jobs amid a rocky turnaround effort under its new top editor, former opinion journalist Bari Weiss.
Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski announced the cuts Friday morning in a pair of internal memos, which were reviewed by The Washington Post. They said those losing their jobs would be notified by the end of the day.
“Today, we informed our CBS News Radio team and approximately 700 affiliated stations that we will end the service on May 22, 2026,” wrote Weiss and Cibrowski, who have shared leadership of the venerable news network since parent company Paramount Skydance acquired Weiss’s online publication, the Free Press, in October and named her editor in chief. “Unfortunately, this decision means that all positions within the CBS News Radio team are being eliminated.”
That announcement followed an earlier notice Friday that CBS News would be cutting jobs across a newsroom that includes its broadcast TV network. A person familiar with the company’s operations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose nonpublic information, said the cuts would affect about 6 percent of CBS News. Without specifying, the person added that other newsroom divisions beyond the radio team would also be affected by layoffs.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/20/cbs-news-bari-weiss-layoffs/
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You're "struggling" because no one wants to hear any more rightwing bullshit. The airwaves are saturated with it and have been since the '80s.
Thank goodness that Soros bought up my news radio station (KYW which is owned by Audacy, which was bought by Soros) and they had been a CBS affiliate (before being a NBC one back when deregulation made them swap station affiliations with WCAU here in the '90s with all the buy-ups, including the Infinity stations and before that, Westinghouse).
My station did end up subbing to some ABC News reports, with CBS news briefs at the top of the hour and some simulcasts of "Face the Nation" and "60 Minutes", as well as some of their weekend programming in the evening.
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WTOP is not an Audacy station though. I suppose like we have here on KYW, they could still pick up the ABC News radio feed (and IIRC, CNN has a news radio feed too).
I was also an avid (flagship) WCBS (news) radio listener as I could pick up their NYC broadcasts pretty clearly on 880 AM. The sister station is 1010 WINS that does all-news.
But here, since WPHT (formerly WCAU 1210) was also a CBS affiliate (and sister station), maybe this will finally kill the RW loon talkers on there!
And top of the spring morning to you!
By KYW Staff, KYW Newsradio
KYW Newsradio
March 20, 2026 9:42 pm
A note from the Newsroom:
On Friday, CBS News announced a new round of layoffs, which includes the shutdown of CBS News Radio after nearly 100 years.
So what does that mean for KYW Newsradio 1060 AM and 103.9 FM? Most importantly, we are not going anywhere.
We’ll still be here, bringing you top local, state, national and international news, just like we have for decades. For part of that long history, we were owned by CBS. That changed in 2017 when CBS sold its local radio stations to the company that is now Audacy.
After that change, we remained a CBS network affiliate, which means we played CBS News on our station, along with our own newsroom’s coverage. When CBS Radio’s service shuts down on May 22, our listeners won’t hear those anymore.
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They (at least the TV station) used to be a NBC affiliate before all the crazy buyouts and affiliate swapping.
But over that time since the switch, they would run ABC feeds (and still do) and in the past, also had CNN ones.
All of their programs will be soon folded into Paramount+. Over the Air TV Broadcasting is on it's last leg.
