CBS News Radio: A beacon of broadcast journalism signs off
Founded nearly a century ago, CBS Radio, featuring legends such as Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout and Charles Osgood, created the template for broadcast journalists. But on May 22, CBS will end its heralded radio service.
Updated on: May 10, 2026 / 9:54 AM EDT / CBS News
Before YouTube and podcasts, before even the nightly television newscasts, millions of people found out what was happening from CBS News Radio. But later this month, after 99 years, CBS News Radio is going silent .
CBS executives have cited the changes in how people are getting their news increasingly from social media, and the "challenging economic realities."
Steve Kathan, the current (and final) anchor of the "CBS World News Roundup," discovered CBS News Radio in the 1960s, 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. It was a live broadcast."
"Everyone knows the legacy of CBS; everybody knows the power and respect that that name engenders," said program host and correspondent Allison Keyes. She has covered a lot of stories in her more than 25 years in radio, but no other like the one she covered live on September 11, 2001:
"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."