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'''CBS News Radio''', formerly known as '''CBS Radio News''' and historically known as the '''CBS Radio Network''', is a [[radio network]] that provides [[News radio|news]] to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the [[United States]]. The network is owned by [[Paramount Global]]. It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks (CBS, [[NBC Radio Network]] and [[Mutual Broadcasting System]]) still operating and still owned by its parent company, even though CBS sold its [[owned and operated]] radio stations in 2017. (The current NBC Radio Network is actually owned by [[iHeartMedia]] but licenses use of the NBC name and NBC's TV news reports.)

On February 2, 2017, CBS Corporation announced that its shareholders had acquired a majority stake in Entercom (now [[EntercomAudacy, Inc.]]), whose corporate management will continue to oversee the company along with CBS's radio assets.<ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/116299/cbs-radio-to-merge-with-entercom/ CBS Radio To Merge With Entercom] - ''Radio Insight'' (published February 2, 2017)</ref> The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.entercom.com/entercom-receives-fcc-approval-for-merger-with-cbs-radio#.Wg8BCmVqaNY |title=Entercom Receives FCC Approval for Merger with CBS Radio |access-date=2017-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117122333/http://www.entercom.com/entercom-receives-fcc-approval-for-merger-with-cbs-radio#.Wg8BCmVqaNY |archive-date=2017-11-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121072/entercom-completes-cbs-radio-merger/ Entercom Completes CBS Radio Merger]</ref> The CBS News Radio network service will continue to be managed by CBS News.

On August 2, 2017, CBS announced that it had signed a contract with Skyview Networks for distribution of CBS News Radio,. toThis gowent into effect on January 1, 2018.<ref>[http://skyviewnetworks.com/news/press-releases/skyview-networks-announces-new-agreement-with-cbs-news-radio/ CBS News Radio and Skyview Networks press release] - "Skyview networks" (published August 2, 2017)</ref>

Today, CBS News Radio is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, including [[Flagship (radio)|flagship station]] [[WCBS (AM)|WCBS]] in New York, and several other [[all news radio|all-news]] and [[talk radio|news-talk]] stations. They include [[KNX (AM)|KNX]] and [[KNX-FM]] in [[Los Angeles]], [[WBBM (AM)|WBBM]] in [[Chicago]], [[KCBS (AM)|KCBS]] in [[San Francisco]], [[KRLD (AM)|KRLD]] in [[Dallas]], [[KYW (AM)|KYW]] in [[Philadelphia]], [[WTOP-FM]] in Washington, [[WBZ (AM)|WBZ]] in [[Boston]], [[WWJ (AM)|WWJ]] in [[Detroit]], [[WCCO (AM)|WCCO]] in [[Minneapolis]], [[KXNT_KXNT (AM)|KXNT]] [[Las Vegas]], [[KMOX]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and [[WTIC (AM)|WTIC]] in [[Hartford]].

The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the ''[[CBS World News Roundup]]'', U.S. broadcasting's oldest news series. The ''Roundup'' dates back to a special network broadcast on March 13, 1938, featuring live reports from Europe on [[Germany]]'s annexation of [[Austria]]. Since 2010, Steve Kathan has anchored the morning show, which airs at 8am ET and 7am PT, while Jennifer Keiper hosts the evening edition at 7pm ET. Each Friday afternoon, the network also distributes the ''[[CBS News Weekend Roundup]],'' an hour-long look at the top stories of the week, hosted by correspondent Allison Keyes.

CBS News Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Steve Futterman, Jim Krasula, Peter King, [[StevenLinda Portnoy]]Kenyon, [[Cami McCormick]], Vicki Barker, Elaine Cobbe, Sabina Castelfranco and Robert Berger.

In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson, based at [[KMOX]] [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and a morning talk show hosted by [[Michael Smerconish]], based at [[WPHT]] [[Philadelphia]], on some of its owned-and-operated stations. CBS handled the syndication of Grayson's show itself, while syndication for Smerconish's show to non-CBS stations had 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.<ref name=ri-overnightamericadg>{{cite news|title=Dial Global offers syndication of KMOX's "Overnight America With Jon Grayson"|url=http://www.radio-info.com/news/dial-global-offers-syndication-of-kmoxs-overnight-america-with-jon-grayson|access-date=January 24, 2012|newspaper=Radio-Info.com|date=January 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128111742/http://www.radio-info.com/news/dial-global-offers-syndication-of-kmoxs-overnight-america-with-jon-grayson|archive-date=January 28, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Smerconish discontinued the morning show in 2011 and Grayson's show ended its national distribution a few years later.

Other public-affairs features include ''CBS Healthwatch'' with Dr. Emily Senay, ''Raising Our Kids'' (formerly suffixed with ''in the 90s'' during that decade) with former WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, ''What's in the News,'' and "Eye on Washington," a daily look at goings on in the nation's capital.

During the overnight hours, the [[CBS News (streaming service)24/7|CBS News]] streaming service carries a simulcast of CBS News Radio's top-of-the-hour reports.

Historically, the sports coverage now produced by [[Westwood One]] was branded as CBS Radio Sports and, like the news features, associated with the CBS Radio Network; however, after CBS began managing [[Westwood One (1976–2011)|the original Westwood One]] in the mid-1990s, 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.

CBS launched a 24/7 [[sports radio]] network, "[[CBS Sports Radio]]" in fall 2012 through [[Cumulus Media Networks]], owned by [[Cumulus Media]] (Cumulus Media Networks was merged into Westwood One in 2013, following Cumulus' acquisition of Westwood One). In 2017, CBS Sports Radio was sold to Entercom (now [[Audacy, Inc.]]) after it acquired CBS Radio.

*SteveMichael DorseyToscano –- Washington Executive Editor

*SteveCarter FuttermanEvans - Los Angeles

While the network's ''World News Roundup'' is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U.S., the title of longest-running network radio show of any kind goes to another CBS Radio program&mdash;''[[Music and the Spoken Word]],'' a half-hour of music and inspirational thought featuring the [[Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square]]. It began on July 15, 1929, and currently airs each Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern Time. (The longest running radio show of any kind is the ''[[Grand Ole Opry]]'', broadcast on [[WSM (AM)|WSM]] in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] since November 28, 1925.)

*[[KNX (AM)|KNX]] 1070 AM and [[KNX-FM]] 97.1: Los Angeles, California (#2)

*[[WBBM (AM)|WBBM]] 780 AM and [[WCFS-FM]]/ 105.9 FM: Chicago, Illinois (#3)

*[[KCBS (AM)|KCBS]] 740 AM and [[KFRC-FM]] 106.9 FM: San Francisco, California (#4)

*[[KYW (AM)|KYW]] 1060 AM and [[WPHI-FM]]/ 103.9 FM: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (#8)

*[[WTOP-FM]] 103.5 FM: Washington, DC (#9) ([[Hubbard Broadcasting]])

*[[WBZ (AM)|WBZ]] 1030 AM: Boston, Massachusetts (#10) ([[iHeartMedia]] - late nights)