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   August 2, 2025


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  1. Byron Allen game shows only temporary

    Jason Remington • April 17, 2026

    Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks, who is also the lead executive at CBS, said the decision to replace “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” with Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” in May was one made due to economic concerns, with politics playing no role in the switch.

    The deal with Allen lasts for one year, during which CBS will continue to explore ways to capitalize on the late night time slots in a way that makes economic sense and appeases its affiliates, Cheeks promised.

  2. iHeart WipeOut

    Jason Remington • April 15, 2026

    Classic Rock 102.5 KZOK Executive Producer Ryan Gibbons departs after two years at the station. Gibbons joined KZOK in July 2024 to produce the then “BJ Shea and Sarah” morning show.
    (RadioInsight)
    Local radio is a wasteland. ai and voice-tracking will replace everyone.
    I think we can all agree that radio was fun while it lasted.

  3. Nexstar plans monopoly on news content

    Jason Remington • April 12, 2026

    Nexstar Media Group, the largest owner of local television stations in the United States, has launched a major initiative to reshape national news content on its affiliated broadcasts. The company, which operates more than 200 stations serving 116 markets and reaching roughly 220 million people, is directing those outlets to stop incorporating segments produced by major national networks including ABC, NBC, and CBS. Instead, the stations will draw from material supplied by NewsNation, the cable news channel owned by Nexstar itself, according to Reuters and Bloomberg.
    The shift aims to position NewsNation as the central provider of national news material across the entire portfolio of local operations, replacing the mix of third-party wire services and external feeds that have long supported daily newscast production.

    1. Park Place and Boardwalk

      Lee Hines • April 13, 2026

      Nexstar has already begun severing ties with NBC’s news-sharing services, forcing local producers to use NewsNation content instead. CEO Perry Sook has stated his intention to let agreements with the remaining major broadcast networks expire without renewal.

  4. ABC, FOX, Westwood One, SRN and now RNN

    Jason Remington • April 10, 2026

    Live Channel USA, a Connected TV (CTV) provider focused on streaming television content over the internet to smart TVs and devices, is venturing into traditional broadcast radio news. This move aims to capitalize on the vacancy left by the shutdown of CBS News Radio. radioinsight.com

    CBS News Radio Shutdown ContextCBS News Radio, which provided newscasts, headlines, features, and breaking news to roughly 700 affiliate stations across the U.S., is ending operations on May 22, 2026, after nearly 100 years (dating back to 1927). The decision stems from economic pressures, shifting listener habits toward digital audio and podcasts, and broader layoffs at CBS News (about 6% staff reduction). It marks the end of a legacy service known for top-of-the-hour updates and historical coverage. cbsnews.com

    Live Channel USA’s Radio Network News (RNN)

    Live Channel USA announced it will launch Radio Network News (RNN) as a replacement option for affected stations. Key details include: Bridge service starts May 23, 2026 (the day after CBS’s final broadcast) to minimize any immediate programming gaps for affiliates.
    Full network rollout on June 1, 2026.

    The service uses a hybrid broadcast model: Staff split across studios in the United States.
    Primary news hub in London for global perspective.

    It employs a cloud-based workflow for delivery, which allows efficient, modern distribution to radio stations. Leadership comes from a veteran team with prior experience at major outlets like Sky News, BBC, and CNN. Founder Dan Warren described the launch ambitiously, calling it an “institutional upgrade” rather than just a stopgap. He referred to it internally as the “Change Bulletin Supplier” (a play on CBS) initiative, aiming to blend understanding of the “American heartland” with global coverage while updating the “Gold Standard” of 20th-century network radio for the 2026 media environment. radioinsight.com

    This is an opportunistic entry by a CTV/streaming company into the radio news affiliate space, targeting stations that previously relied on CBS for national/international news inserts. Details on exact programming (e.g., hourly newscasts, features, breaking news feeds) are still emerging, but the focus appears to be on providing a reliable, hybrid U.S.-global news service via cloud delivery. Live Channel USA itself seems relatively low-profile as a CTV provider prior to this announcement (no major prior mainstream coverage turned up in searches), so this represents a diversification play into audio. It’s too early to assess reception from stations or listeners, but the tight timeline (bridge service immediately after CBS ends) suggests they’re positioning RNN as a seamless transition option.

  5. Speaking of Radio - Website

    Jason Remington • April 8, 2026

    Here is a site you should enjoy. speakingofradio.com
    Broadcaster/historian CHUCK SCHADEN was producer and host of the long-running Those Were the Days radio program from 1970 to 2009.
    A former newspaper editor and marketing executive, he turned his hobby into a vocation and drew from a collection of more than 50,000 vintage programs to prepare his broadcasts.
    In 2006-07 he hosted the nationally syndicated old-time-radio series When Radio Was, replacing Stan Freberg.
    Completing 39 years on the air, Chuck Schaden retired from broadcasting on June 27, 2009. During those years, he interviewed more than 200 performers, writers, producers, directors and sound effects people, all associated with the radio days.

    His post-retirement project is sharing those conversations with visitors to this website.

  6. Get out

    Jason Remington • March 27, 2026

    McOmie, 73, authored and produced several editions of “Grant’s Getaways” in a storied career spanning five decades with two of Portland’s major television stations, KATU and, most recently, KGW.

  7. Due for a change of calls

    Jason Remington • March 25, 2026

    1680 KNTS has filed an STA. The owners have a dispute the tower lessor. KNTS apparently went off the air March 1.

  8. Thought For The Day, Monday, March 16, 2026--

    Jason Remington • March 16, 2026

    Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ —
    No matter who has been President, little has changed since the movie “Network” was released in 1976. The only difference is, the world is crazier and people are angrier. Social media and the Internet have a lot to do with it.

  9. Tell me another story

    Jason Remington • February 28, 2026

    Funny line from FTVLive.com, talking about CNN employees’ future after the big merger. Scott Jones states that CNN news reporting is a ” legacy of objectivity.” I just about choked while laughing at that.

    1. CNN vs. MSNBC

      Jason Remington • February 28, 2026

      CNN – The most biased name in news.
      The website for MSNBC/MSNOW is not helping their cause. They could not get the MSNOW dot com domain and are using MS dot NOW Another stupid move from the least watched of the non-stop drivel channels.

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