CBS News shutting down its radio division

(LA Times) In a stunning move, CBS News is shutting down its radio division, bringing to an end one of its most recognizable sources of news reporting after nearly 100 years on air. CBS News announced Friday it will stop offering its radio service to its 700 affiliate stations on May 22.

CBS sold its own radio stations in 2017, but continued to offer hourly network newscasts to affiliate stations, including “World News Roundup,” which has been on the air since 1938. Legendary CBS News journalist Edward R. Murrow — who would become a nationally recognized anchor covering the international battlefields of World War II and the domestic “Red Scare” of the McCarthy era — delivered his first report on the program.