What Happens To L.a.'s Knx And Other Stations When Cbs News Radio Goes Away?

The announcement of the extremity of CBS News Radio past Friday was met pinch elegiac tributes to nan work that built nan instauration of William Paley’s institution astir 100 years agone and brought nan heroic activity of journalists specified arsenic Edward R. Murrow to millions of listeners.

But for nan 700 affiliates carrying CBS News Radio, nan concerns are much applicable arsenic they are faced pinch uncovering caller nationalist programming that will switch it. CBS Radio News will spell silent connected May 22.

The shutdown of nan historical power section was portion of a division-wide unit trim that will impact 6% of nan CBS News workforce. Affiliate stations learned of nan determination only minutes earlier it was released to nan press.

The section all-news power stations carrying nan work had to station messages connected societal media to guarantee listeners that they were not disappearing — only nan nationalist newscasts that were provided by CBS.

KNX, nan all-news position successful Los Angeles that has carried CBS programming since 1936, posted a lengthy conception connected nan impending closure and explained really “KNX News is not going anywhere.”

KNX was owned by CBS until 2017. The New York-based Audacy, nether its erstwhile sanction Entercom, acquired nan CBS power stations successful 2017. KNX and nan different Audacy news stations specified arsenic WBBM successful Chicago, KCBS successful San Francisco and WWJ successful Detroit remained CBS affiliates, carrying nan hourly CBS newscasts.

The Audacy all-news outlets, which scope astir 9 cardinal listeners a month, provided astir one-third of U.S. sum for CBS News Radio, nan astir of immoderate position group carrying nan service.

Audacy said it will find a replacement for CBS News Radio to supply nationalist and world coverage, noting that nan ngo of its all-news stations will not beryllium affected.

“The immense mostly of our news and talk programming remains original and locally-produced, and we are opening conversations pinch different nationalist news providers to guarantee our listeners proceed to person entree to world-class programming they worth and trust.” said Chris Oliviero, main business serviceman for Audacy.

Educating nan listening nationalist and advertisers that nan stations will beryllium fundamentally nan aforesaid erstwhile CBS is gone will require immoderate effort. KNX and nan different Audacy all-news stations person a agelong relation pinch CBS, which launched their formats starting successful nan precocious 1960s.

Along pinch nan hourly newscasts, nan stations carried “The Osgood Files,” a massively celebrated commentary conception hosted by nan precocious erstwhile “CBS Sunday Morning” big Charles Osgood, for 46 years until 2017. The jingles and sounders utilized to place CBS News web programming heard connected nan stations for decades person besides been portion of nan listening experience.

Among nan imaginable replacements for CBS News Radio is ABC News Audio, which is nan largest web power news work successful nan U.S. pinch 1,500 affiliates. The Audacy stations presently usage ABC News contented extracurricular of its hourly newscasts.

KFI-AM presently carries nan ABC News Audio newscasts successful Los Angeles. Exclusivity of nan ABC News Audio affiliations are wished connected a market-by-market basis, according to a typical astatine nan network.

Fox News Media, nan location of nan conservative-leaning cablegram channel, besides offers a power work pinch hourly newscasts and dedicated reporters, which airs connected respective 100 stations (the institution does not proviso a circumstantial number).

While Fox News Radio delivers consecutive reporting, nan work is apt to find a location connected immoderate of nan blimpish talk stations that are presently CBS News affiliates.