After Almost 100 Years, CBS News Radio Signs-off the air TONIGHT
- May 22
- 2 min read
Source: Hal Turner
CBS News Radio, which provides news programming to an estimated 700 stations spanning the United States, will sign off the air Friday night after nearly a century of broadcasting.
The storied service, launched in September 1927, was home to broadcast legends Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Charles Osgood, Dan Rather and many other familiar and trusted voices over its decades in operation.
"It's been around for a long time. Really, an American institution is what we're losing here," said Steve Kathan, the longtime anchor of the CBS World News Roundup.
"CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution very important to the development of news other than newspapers," Rather recently told "CBS Sunday Morning." "It, for many, many years, was a part, and I would argue not a small part, of what held the country together."
The decision to shutter the radio news service was announced in March, with the company citing "challenging economic realities."
Hal Turner Opinion
Those "challenging economic realities" were caused by the left-wing, liberal, news delivery provided by CBS Radio. From the stories they CHOSE to cover, to the "narrative" they provided, CBS Radio disconnected from reality.
The (thinking) general public doesn't like left-wing political, social, and cultural views. As such, the thinking-public swayed away from CBS Radio.
That translated into thinking-advertisers swaying away.
That lead to the "Challenging economic realities" which have now killed CBS Radio.
The reason CBS could not find a way to save this once-treasured institution, is because it is literally infested, from top to bottom, by left-wingers. They do not have the intellectual or emotional ability to deal with political, social, cultural, and religious views which they do not agree with.
I think CBS News Radio misused its position to push agendas. I think the American people - and Advertisers - saw this and disliked it.
I think CBS News Radio was able to limp along for a decade because in many places, it was the only game in town for advertisers to reach a solid audience. As that changed, and more competitors became available, CBS never read the writing on the wall. They never seemed to catch-on that it was THEIR viewpoint, inserted into almost everything they did, that was being rebuked by the public and by advertisers.
Instead of embracing - and reporting - actual reality, CBS radio seems to me to have sealed-it-out.
In the end, CBS Radio looks to me as nothing more than an echo chamber of their own making; detached from the reality the rest of America lives in.
It's a genuine shame that this once-cherished institution was killed by the very ideology it came to embrace, but I think that's exactly what happened.
