CBS News Radio to End Operations on May 22

CBS News Radio will end its service on May 22 after operating for 99 years. CBS executives cited changes in news consumption toward social media and challenging economic realities as reasons for the closure. The New York headquarters of CBS News Radio is closing down.

CBS began as a radio network in 1927. The first broadcast journalism program using multiple remote live reports occurred on March 13, 1938, one day after Hitler’s army marched into Austria in the Anschluss. Robert Trout anchored a live news broadcast from New York that day while Edward R.

Murrow reported live from Vienna during the first multi-city remote broadcast. Edward R. Murrow was 29 years old during the March 13, 1938 broadcast. The CBS World News Roundup is America’s longest-running news program.

Steve Kathan is the current and final anchor of the CBS World News Roundup. Steve Kathan first discovered CBS News Radio in the 1960s while listening on a transistor radio. "And that's where I heard some of the great CBS News broadcasters," he said.

"You were hearing something live. " Allison Keyes has worked in radio for more than 25 years. She covered the September 11, 2001 attacks live for CBS News Radio. "I can hardly breathe. It looks like a nuclear war happened here.

You can't see the sky at all. It's all grey smoke," Keyes said, adding that "People needed to know what was going on that day" in real time. Craig Swagler worked at CBS News Radio for 23 years before he became the network’s top radio executive.

He now runs Baltimore Public Media. "Getting the opportunity to come and work at that place as an entry-level desk assistant was a very starry-eyed dream to fulfill, to sit in that room with giants," Swagler said. Swagler noted that the March 13, 1938 broadcast marked the invention of broadcast journalism.

Edward R. Murrow reported from Buchenwald concentration camp on April 15, 1945. Dustin Gervais is a CBS Radio News manager who recalled how CBS News Radio staff coordinated reporting from cities including Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Beijing, Seoul, and Sydney for more than 40 years.

"We covered the whole world," Gervais said. Dan Rather listened to CBS News Radio as a child growing up in Texas. He began his career in radio and reported in Dallas shortly after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Martha Teichner joined CBS in 1977 after starting her broadcasting career at country-western radio station WJEF in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Charles Osgood joined CBS Radio in 1967 and died two years ago.

The legacy of CBS News Radio includes voices that shaped a national institution.