Tag: CBS News Radio

Some held signs reading “Fired for Overall Excellence,” highlighting the contrast between the network’s industry recognition and its closure earlier this year.

"It was an incredibly proud moment, but also a very bittersweet one."

Keiper spent six years with CBS before the network shut down its radio operation in May.

CBS News Radio also captured Overall Excellence and Newscast honors, even though the network ended its radio operation earlier this year.

"The whole world is a really big thing to cram into just three minutes at the top of that cast. There's a lot of decision-making that has to happen about what we're covering and how much time we're giving to each story, because you don't have a whole lot of time to do it. But that's kind of the fun part of it."

"Cost-cutting isn't the issue that concerns me most. Transparency is."

Several program directors, meanwhile, who air the newscasts, said they were not briefed by the network that select newscasts would be pre-recorded or re-aired.

"Happy to report I have landed on my feet. After the demise of CBS Radio and the purge of the entire staff, I have been hired to anchor newscasts at NPR."

"The commitment to real reporting, factual journalism, and delivering breaking news without agenda is what drew me to this opportunity."

"People often assume that a cloud product isn't closely connected to traditional broadcasting. We can run everything in the cloud, but whenever you want to use hardware, we can integrate with virtually any traditional broadcast equipment."