{"id":65638,"date":"2026-03-21T08:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65638"},"modified":"2026-03-21T08:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T12:11:48","slug":"end-of-an-era-cbs-news-radio-shuttering-after-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/end-of-an-era-cbs-news-radio-shuttering-after-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era: CBS News Radio Shuttering After 100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward R. Murrow<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Richard Cuff, who shares the following article from The Guardian<\/em><\/a> regarding a significant restructuring at CBS News. In a move described by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as a “necessary decision” driven by a radical shift in the media landscape, the network has announced a major round of layoffs affecting roughly 6% of its staff. Most notably for the radio community, the nearly 100-year-old CBS News Radio service is set to shutter on May 22, 2026. This marks the end of an era for a service that famously hosted Edward R. Murrow\u2019<\/a>s wartime reports and produced the CBS World News Roundup, the longest-running newscast in the country.<\/p>\n

Read the full article at The Guardian: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/mar\/20\/bari-weiss-cbs-news-layoffs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Richard Cuff, who shares the following article from The Guardian regarding a significant restructuring at CBS News. In a move described by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss as a “necessary decision” driven by a radical shift in the media landscape, the network has announced a major round of layoffs affecting roughly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,3781,3],"tags":[3837,4851,1012],"class_list":["post-65638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-fm","category-news","tag-cbs","tag-cbs-radio","tag-richard-cuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h4G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17798,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/cbs-considering-the-sale-of-its-radio-division\/","url_meta":{"origin":65638,"position":0},"title":"CBS considering the sale of its radio division","author":"Thomas","date":"March 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: LA Times) CBS Corp. is poised to exit the radio business that it helped create. 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