CBS News Radio signing off after nearly 100 years: "An American institution"

U.S. CBS News Radio signs off Friday night after nearly 100 years of broadcasting: "An American institution" By Aliza Chasan Aliza Chasan Digital Content Producer Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza covers trending news, often focusing on crime and politics. Read Full Bio Aliza Chasan May 22, 2026 / 5:00 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google CBS News Radio, which provides news programming to an estimated 700 stations spanning the United States, will sign off the air Friday night after nearly a century of broadcasting. The storied service, launched in September 1927, was home to broadcast legends Edward R. Murrow, Robert Trout, Douglas Edwards, Charles Osgood, Dan Rather and many other familiar and trusted voices over its decades in operation. "It's been around for a long time. Really, an American institution is what we're losing here," said Steve Kathan, the longtime anchor of the CBS World News Roundup."CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution very important to the development of news other than newspapers," Rather recently told "CBS Sunday Morning." "It, for many, many years, was a part, and I would argue not a small part, of what held the country together." The decision to shutter the radio news service was announced in March, with the company citing "challenging economic realities." In a statement at the time, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski and Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss paid tribute to the historic role of CBS News Radio in covering major events worldwide since the dawn of the broadcasting era."For nearly 100 years, CBS News Radio has delivered original reporting to the nation — from Edward R. Murrow's World War II reports in London to today's daily White House updates," they said. "Our signature broadcast, 'World News Roundup,' remains the l...