>Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief at the now Trump-friendly CBS News, has killed the network’s storied radio division.
>CBS News Radio will be shuttered entirely, effective May 22. The service provided radio coverage to 700 local affiliates across the country, and went back nearly 100 years.
>The network’s signature broadcast World News Roundup was the longest-running newscast in the U.S. For many years, CBS Evening News, including Norah O’Donnell and Jeff Glor, would deliver afternoon news updates on the radio show.
>Weiss and CBS President Tom Cibrowski called the decision “necessary.”
>“A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service. We are sharing this announcement now to fulfill our commitments to our radio partners and affiliates, which require advance notice of the service’s conclusion,” they wrote in a memo to CBS Radio staff.
>“The coming weeks will be difficult for the team members who have worked tirelessly at CBS News Radio,” they added.
>Weiss’s axing of the radio program comes as she announced six percent of the company would be laid off on Friday.
MastersOfNoneShow on
This asshole again
alternatingflan on
This defines “the shit floats to the top.”
swrrrrg on
Is anyone else over things being called “___-coded?”
PopCultureOlogist on
And just where do you think those “challenging economic realities” are coming from?!? GFC!
ChiliFriesNoBeans on
She’s doing a terrible job so far. Wonder if someone hired her to do all the dirty work so they can fire her later and blame everything on her.
Arch-by-the-way on
“America’s most treasured show” and they don’t even name it because they know that no one has even heard of the show.
RedHeadedSicilian52 on
I feel like it’s misleading that the word “radio” wasn’t used in the title here. Yeah, Bari Weiss sucks, and you could argue that this was a bad business decision, but as a non-expert, I don’t have a hard time buying the suggestion that the radio news division really unprofitable. It’s something I could imagine someone without Weiss’s political views doing, anyway.
drfunkenstien014 on
This is part of the layoffs happening today, in which 15% of the workforce at CBS News is being shutdown. This is also three days after employees at their streaming division, CBS News 24/7, walked out over contract negotiations stalling and held a protest outside the broadcast center in NYC. So now Cbs is having surprise layoffs to take revenge.
Mr_1990s on
I don’t like what she’s doing, but this is bullshit clickbait because it’s not referencing ’60 Minutes‘ or ‚CBS Sunday Morning.‘
I’m assuming that none of us have heard a CBS News update on the radio in the past several years, if ever.
bonzoboy2000 on
Challenging economics? I guess they must realize I’m not watching CBS…
Mystery1001 on
America’s most treasured show was CBS News Radio? I’m not even sure in peak radio days, it was the „the most treasured“ and that was decades ago.
BigSt3ph3n on
One step closer to REICH
StrengthFew9197 on
Where’s that gif of the lady laughing uncontrollably…you know the one where she spits out her drink and falls of her chair in laughter. Anyway
Beagleguy26 on
What the hell is „radio“?
cowdoyspitoon on
“MAGA-Coded” just admit she’s fucking MAGA you pussy ass bitches
Yelloeisok on
They sure are helping with that ‘Death To America’ thing, aren’t they. First ‘Voice of America’ (even though I saw the headlines about hiring employees back), and now they are dismantling CBS News. Free press, 1st amendment, voting rights – where will it end?
botmanmd on
I’m calling BS. Just what do you suppose it costs for a news gathering operation to spit out a radio news report? No need for cameras, lighting, make-up or even a studio. Just take the news that CBS News is supposedly already gathering and say it into a microphone, digitally record it, then send the product to affiliate stations for a fee.
Certain_Event558 on
Maybe everyone tunes out of the NCAA Tournament that’s on right now.
CFT1982 on
Did anyone in here complaining actually listen?
Relative-Freedom-295 on
You lost me at “Bari Weiss”. So did CBS.
Gallantpride on
„Coded“? That term only works for fiction.
Hey_Giant_Loser on
Weiss is who Ellen Pao wishes she could have been
dropinsci802 on
Nobody listens anyway
XThePlaysTheThingX on
The people in here shitting on the headline is absolutely wild. It was broadcasting the news for nearly 100 years. One of the very first to so on radio. It was “treasured” to an entire generation.
At the end of the day Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS so it falls in line with MAGA propaganda. Focusing on a single word in a headline is pedantic & unproductive.
ficis on
Here’s the thing. CBS will shut down then CNN. There’s only going to be 2 news organizations. Just like George Carlin said, “The Illusion of choice”
cocoagiant on
I had no idea CBS still did radio. How big was their listener base?
DaveWierdoh on
I’m waiting for 60 mins to be cut down to 60 seconds.
Alternative-Tip-624 on
Let’s hope 60 Minutes is next!!!!
OkDentist4059 on
I hate Bari Weiss as much as anyone but let’s not pretend like *World News Roundup* was “America’s most treasured show,” that’s total clickbait bullshit.
Reasonable_Worth_726 on
Ok but please leave CBS Sunday Morning alone
DFu4ever on
If we get this country back to some semblance of normal, she should be a media pariah outside of conservative circlejerks like Newsmax.
She is such a giant piece of shit.
Alternative-Tip-624 on
You can’t handle the truth bitches!!
TheOliveYeti on
„maga-coded“ good lord, what a stupid word.
Beaumont64 on
Bari Weiss is human garbage
Puzzlehead_1952 on
CBC continues its downward spiral into the toilet.
matthatt24 on
This is the anti-trans gay lady right?
SeaEmployee787 on
clearing room for more crack pots from crazy pants land, to fill the radio airwaves.
jazzcabbage22 on
It’s easy to hate her with a name and face like that.
Emotional_Rock4208 on
I still don’t understand the whole concept of a MAGA lesbian.
ItsTheExtreme on
I still can’t believe Bari runs CBS lol. That’s absurd.
WhereCTat on
This Russia levels of bullshit hahaha
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>Bari Weiss, the editor-in-chief at the now Trump-friendly CBS News, has killed the network’s storied radio division.
>CBS News Radio will be shuttered entirely, effective May 22. The service provided radio coverage to 700 local affiliates across the country, and went back nearly 100 years.
>The network’s signature broadcast World News Roundup was the longest-running newscast in the U.S. For many years, CBS Evening News, including Norah O’Donnell and Jeff Glor, would deliver afternoon news updates on the radio show.
>Weiss and CBS President Tom Cibrowski called the decision “necessary.”
>“A shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service. We are sharing this announcement now to fulfill our commitments to our radio partners and affiliates, which require advance notice of the service’s conclusion,” they wrote in a memo to CBS Radio staff.
>“The coming weeks will be difficult for the team members who have worked tirelessly at CBS News Radio,” they added.
>Weiss’s axing of the radio program comes as she announced six percent of the company would be laid off on Friday.
This asshole again
This defines “the shit floats to the top.”
Is anyone else over things being called “___-coded?”
And just where do you think those “challenging economic realities” are coming from?!? GFC!
She’s doing a terrible job so far. Wonder if someone hired her to do all the dirty work so they can fire her later and blame everything on her.
“America’s most treasured show” and they don’t even name it because they know that no one has even heard of the show.
I feel like it’s misleading that the word “radio” wasn’t used in the title here. Yeah, Bari Weiss sucks, and you could argue that this was a bad business decision, but as a non-expert, I don’t have a hard time buying the suggestion that the radio news division really unprofitable. It’s something I could imagine someone without Weiss’s political views doing, anyway.
This is part of the layoffs happening today, in which 15% of the workforce at CBS News is being shutdown. This is also three days after employees at their streaming division, CBS News 24/7, walked out over contract negotiations stalling and held a protest outside the broadcast center in NYC. So now Cbs is having surprise layoffs to take revenge.
I don’t like what she’s doing, but this is bullshit clickbait because it’s not referencing ’60 Minutes‘ or ‚CBS Sunday Morning.‘
I’m assuming that none of us have heard a CBS News update on the radio in the past several years, if ever.
Challenging economics? I guess they must realize I’m not watching CBS…
America’s most treasured show was CBS News Radio? I’m not even sure in peak radio days, it was the „the most treasured“ and that was decades ago.
One step closer to REICH
Where’s that gif of the lady laughing uncontrollably…you know the one where she spits out her drink and falls of her chair in laughter. Anyway
What the hell is „radio“?
“MAGA-Coded” just admit she’s fucking MAGA you pussy ass bitches
They sure are helping with that ‘Death To America’ thing, aren’t they. First ‘Voice of America’ (even though I saw the headlines about hiring employees back), and now they are dismantling CBS News. Free press, 1st amendment, voting rights – where will it end?
I’m calling BS. Just what do you suppose it costs for a news gathering operation to spit out a radio news report? No need for cameras, lighting, make-up or even a studio. Just take the news that CBS News is supposedly already gathering and say it into a microphone, digitally record it, then send the product to affiliate stations for a fee.
Maybe everyone tunes out of the NCAA Tournament that’s on right now.
Did anyone in here complaining actually listen?
You lost me at “Bari Weiss”. So did CBS.
„Coded“? That term only works for fiction.
Weiss is who Ellen Pao wishes she could have been
Nobody listens anyway
The people in here shitting on the headline is absolutely wild. It was broadcasting the news for nearly 100 years. One of the very first to so on radio. It was “treasured” to an entire generation.
At the end of the day Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS so it falls in line with MAGA propaganda. Focusing on a single word in a headline is pedantic & unproductive.
Here’s the thing. CBS will shut down then CNN. There’s only going to be 2 news organizations. Just like George Carlin said, “The Illusion of choice”
I had no idea CBS still did radio. How big was their listener base?
I’m waiting for 60 mins to be cut down to 60 seconds.
Let’s hope 60 Minutes is next!!!!
I hate Bari Weiss as much as anyone but let’s not pretend like *World News Roundup* was “America’s most treasured show,” that’s total clickbait bullshit.
Ok but please leave CBS Sunday Morning alone
If we get this country back to some semblance of normal, she should be a media pariah outside of conservative circlejerks like Newsmax.
She is such a giant piece of shit.
You can’t handle the truth bitches!!
„maga-coded“ good lord, what a stupid word.
Bari Weiss is human garbage
CBC continues its downward spiral into the toilet.
This is the anti-trans gay lady right?
clearing room for more crack pots from crazy pants land, to fill the radio airwaves.
It’s easy to hate her with a name and face like that.
I still don’t understand the whole concept of a MAGA lesbian.
I still can’t believe Bari runs CBS lol. That’s absurd.
This Russia levels of bullshit hahaha