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CBS Shuts Down News Radio, Announces 6% Layoff

CBS Shuts Down News Radio, Announces 6% Layoff

CBS Shuts Down News Radio, Announces 6% Layoff
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CBS News Radio's shutdown is a tough but necessary call — the division pulled in just $67,000 in February, making it impossible to sustain. Bari Weiss is modernizing a newsroom that's been losing ground to ABC and NBC for years, and cutting dead weight to invest in digital growth is exactly the right move. The news business is changing fast, and CBS has to change with it or get left behind.

Paying $150 million for Bari Weiss and The Free Press while gutting 160 jobs and killing a century-old radio division is a terrible trade — that money alone could've kept those employees working for a decade. Weiss pulled a fully vetted "60 Minutes" segment critical of Trump, handing the administration veto power over CBS reporting. This isn't modernization — it's an ideological overhaul designed to serve the Ellison family's business and political interests.


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