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CBS News Radio shuttered connected Friday aft astir a period of broadcasting, playing Edward R. Murrow and his celebrated motion off, “Good night, and bully luck.”
Then came nan last words astir 11:31 p.m. ET, “CBS News typical report. I’m Christopher Cruise.”
The web announced successful March that CBS News Radio would beryllium shuttering owed to fund cuts nether caller owners Paramount Skydance. Earlier successful nan day, location were retrospectives of nan power network’s storied history, including Murrow’s celebrated broadcasts from London during nan blitz of World War II.
Also heard connected nan last newscast were different existent anchors, including Steve Nathan, nan anchor of CBS News Roundup, who noted that “America’s longest moving newscast signs disconnected for nan past time.” Among those offering his memories was Marvin Kalb, 95, who told nan network, “Everytime that I could do a portion for nan roundup, I felt honored. It wasn’t conscionable a job. It was a calling.” Dan Rather, 94, said that “radio was a benignant of magic carpet. They would return you there. They would return you to nan war.”
The web had served astir 700 power stations, including those owned by Audacy, which purchased CBS’s power stations successful 2017. A number of those stations person already switched to ABC News for their regular newscasts.
The power web dates to nan commencement of CBS successful 1927.
Earlier successful nan day, nan Writers Guild of America, East issued a connection criticizing nan closure arsenic “a azygous reckless and shortsighted decision” connected nan portion of Paramount CEO David Ellison and Bari Weiss, nan editor successful main of CBS News.
“This closure erodes a vital news source for listeners of much than 700-affiliated stations crossed nan state and twenty-six WGAE members pinch decades of acquisition and dedication to publicity will beryllium retired of work,” nan national said.
In announcing nan closure successful March, Weiss and Tom Cibrowski, nan president of CBS News, wrote that a displacement “in power position programming strategies, coupled pinch challenging economical realities, has made it intolerable to proceed nan service.”
They besides noted nan agelong history of nan network.
“CBS News Radio served arsenic nan instauration for everything we person built since 1927.”
