Media veterans outraged as Bari Weiss
shuts 100-year old CBS News Radio: ‘It’s disgusting’
New York Post,
by
Alexandra Steigrad
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
3/21/2026 2:56:01 AM
CBS News Radio — the century-old home of legendary journalists Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow — is shutting down as network boss Bari Weiss continues to reshape the struggling news network, cutting 6% of its workforce in a Friday bloodbath that claimed 60 to 70 jobs.
Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowksi said Friday that CBS Radio will shut down May 22 with all roles in the unit eliminated — a move that was driven by industry shifts and financial pressure from David Ellison, CEO of CBS parent Paramount Skydance.
The duo told employees that “a shift in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
anniebc 3/21/2026 3:27:16 AM (No. 2082997)
It's actually delightful and common sense. CBS is finally entering the time of much-deserved and self-inflicted consequences. Six percent reduction is hardly a bloodbath, but I guess it's coming when more roles (aka people) in the unit will be eliminated. It's hard to believe they have 23 million (down from 30 million last year) listeners. Will we ever learn why they lost seven million listeners in one year?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/21/2026 3:28:56 AM (No. 2082998)
The leftists think they are entitled to their jobs, should be paid, regardless if their work is producing any money.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Californian 3/21/2026 5:13:25 AM (No. 2083010)
23 million would still be a huge number. That's almost 10% of adults?
Really? Radio? Hard to believe. We know that almost no one under 40 even owns a radio. The numbers of listeners will continue to decline. For general use, radio is dead.
I used to listen to radio for 2-3 hours a day on my commute. Haven't turn on the radio for at least 15 years. It's dead.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rather Read 3/21/2026 5:25:13 AM (No. 2083016)
I used to listen to the radio quite a lot. But now I listen to audiobooks on my Libby app or I stream music. I haven't listened to news on the radio in years and years.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/21/2026 5:39:11 AM (No. 2083022)
Finally catching up with the times
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/21/2026 6:41:51 AM (No. 2083029)
Cronkite was a lefty and CBS News has been a growing source of propaganda since his days. I won't miss them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/21/2026 6:48:16 AM (No. 2083030)
"Many employees across the company are unionized, so the network risks labor grievances or being brought in front of the National Labor Relations Board if does selective layoffs."
So, the advice from those in opposition was to "cut costs" first, even though there were admissions that the radio outlet was inevitably doomed. However, unionization, a dem supported innovation, would make cost cutting through layoffs very difficult. Another dem ideology turning out to be a problem. At least this time it's impacting the Left and the 'disgusting' media.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/21/2026 7:15:34 AM (No. 2083037)
When they took the disc player out of new cars they could have taken the whole radio for all I care.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mobyclik 3/21/2026 8:45:03 AM (No. 2083079)
The only radio program ever worth listening to was from a guy ''With talent on loan from God.'' He's still missed.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 3/21/2026 9:11:07 AM (No. 2083092)
FTAAnother media exec with recent knowledge of CBS Radio’s finances said the unit was break-even, meaning that it wasn’t losing money but also wasn’t bringing any in, either.
That wouldn't surprise me. There are enough listeners to tread water, but no opportunity for growth.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
HPmatt 3/21/2026 9:19:17 AM (No. 2083097)
Alexandra…..honey, stop hyperventilating….6% is NOT a bloodbath….howabout 85-95% when the 1980s oil recession - jobs, then homes, then banks. RTC formed to hold the assets and prevent a complete collapse - that was the opportunity to invest that only happens in a generation. Oil bidness came back, up & down, but trend is always higher - like US population, legal and illegals…
Of course media has went partisan and lost 50% of its market, enjoy the suck.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 3/21/2026 10:16:12 AM (No. 2083125)
When Biden killed the Keystone pipeline, I don't remember these people wailing and crying over lost jobs.
This is not the 1950s, news radio no longer creates the revenue to keep it afloat - tradition and legacy don't pay the bills. Learn to code.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/21/2026 10:37:54 AM (No. 2083141)
BOO HOO, Leftists whine about every thing that shows how BAD they are...Enjoy THE SUCK!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/21/2026 11:39:20 AM (No. 2083183)
Oh fer Chrissake. “Media veterans”? You mean old guys who used to be on the radio?
It’s telling that they would invoke the names of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Those two were, in the words of P.J. O’Rourke, as pink as a baboon’s butt.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/21/2026 12:18:49 PM (No. 2083214)
"It's business."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 3/21/2026 12:39:31 PM (No. 2083235)
Just a big money drain. Nobody wanted to hear.buy what they were selling....which was leftist propaganda, not news.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 3/21/2026 1:24:57 PM (No. 2083256)
#14, after urging you not to use the Lord’s name in that manner (although I laughed and agreed with your blunt description of the “media veterans” euphemism), I want to say that your story about P.J. O’Rourke reminded me of a story my parents used to tell to tease me on occasion. Around 75 years ago, when I was about 3 years old, they took me to the zoo. I have forgotten all of the other animals I saw that day. But, I still vividly remember the baboon - at least a part of it. I apparently laughed at its antics, but I gasped in wide-eyed surprise when it turned its back to us and I asked, “What’s THAT?!!”, to the embarrassment of my young parents and the delight of those standing around us. However, I remember it being bold bright red, more like today’s leftist journalists.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/21/2026 6:55:56 PM (No. 2083353)
Quick! Call a "federal district judge!" He/she/it can put a stop to all of this!
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