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CBS has announced it will shutdown its radio news service in May of this year.
The CBS radio network provides newscasts and other material to more than 700 stations across the country, but the network announced Friday that its operations are no longer sustainable. Everyone who works for the radio news service will be losing their jobs.
The radio network began in 1927 and rose in importance and influence during World War II when Edward R. Murrow offered nightly reports from London. The CBS World News Round Up – which airs at 8a.m. ET – is the longest running news broadcast in the United States.
The decision by CBS to close its radio operations is just the latest sign of a media landscape that has shifted dramatically in the last several decades and is evolving in some predictable and some unpredictable directions.
