Programming
Today, CBS Radio News is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, as well as owned-and-operated (O&O) flagship station WCBS in New York, and several other O&O's including KYW in Philadelphia, KNX in Los Angeles, KCBS in San Francisco, WBBM in Chicago, WBZ in Boston, WWJ in Detroit, KMOX in St. Louis, KRLD in Dallas and WCCO in Minneapolis. WTOP-FM in Washington, DC, while owned and operated by Hubbard Broadcasting, is a key CBS Radio affiliate (and the largest station not owned by the network), and much of its broadcast style copies that of the CBS-owned outlets. (Some time in 2013, CBS is expected to shift its affiliation to WNEW-FM, which CBS acquired in 2012. WNEW uses the CBS logo, but currently does not carry any CBS programming.)
Its offerings include the top-of-the-hour newscasts and the half-hour news updates. In addition to the over-the-air product, reports and actualities are made available to affiliates on its Newsfeeds, among the best-known products of the CBS Radio newsroom. Newsfeeds are subscribed heavily to by WCBS, KYW and other top outlets.
Among its on-air programs are the CBS News-on-the-Hour and the morning Osgood File features with Charles Osgood.
The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the CBS World News Roundup, broadcasting's oldest news series. Steve Kathan anchors the morning show, while Bill Whitney hosts the evening edition. The daily Roundup dates back to a special on March 13, 1938, covering Germany's annexation of Austria. Each Friday, the network also produces the CBS News Weekend Roundup, a look at the top stories of the week, hosted by Dan Raviv, with a commentary from Charles Grodin.
CBS Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Peter Maer, Barry Bagnato, Mark Knoller, Bob Fuss, Cami McCormick and Lara Logan. Logan also reports for CBS Television, and many TV correspondents also appear on CBS Radio newscasts.
In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson and the existing morning talk show hosted by Michael Smerconish on some of its owned-and-operated stations. CBS themselves handle the syndication of Grayson's show, while syndication for Smerconish's show to non-CBS stations has been outsourced to Dial Global (which at that time was not involved with the CBS Radio Network itself). Grayson's show, Overnight America, also entered national syndication via Dial Global on January 30, 2012; meanwhile, Smerconish discontinued the morning show in 2011.
CBS Radio reporters also contribute to Dial Global's hour-long broadcast America In the Morning, hosted by Jim Bohannon; because America In the Morning is broadcast on many stations not affiliated with CBS (in addition to several which are), references to CBS News are usually edited from the CBS correspondents' reports and closing bylines.
Three of CBS's television programs are currently simulcast on CBS Radio News; those are Face the Nation, 60 Minutes, and the first segment of the CBS Evening News (some stations, such as WBZ in Boston, air the entire Evening News). In addition, the Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten List is also broadcast by the network in a short-form-feature format.
Other public-affairs features include CBS Healthwatch with Dr. Emily Senay, Raising Our Kids (formerly suffixed with in the 90s during that decade) with WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, and What's in the News.
Historically, the sports coverage now produced by Dial Global was branded as CBS Radio Sports and, like the news features, associated with the CBS Radio Network; however, after CBS began managing Westwood One, the sports broadcasts would come under the Westwood One banner (with both identities used in the late 1990s), a practice that would continue even after CBS stopped managing Westwood One in 2007. (Westwood One was acquired by Dial Global in October 2011.) CBS has since announced plans to launch CBS Sports Radio in fall 2012 through a rival network, Cumulus Media Networks (the former ABC Radio, which had been stripped of its sports division in its 2007 sale).
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