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6 unusual facts about CBS Radio


Gordon V. Smith

Celebrations in Cedar Rapids where carried nationwide by CBS Radio and from Trinity Cathedral in Davenport by WOC-TV.

J.-J. Gagnier

In the 1930s and 1940s Gagnier was active conducting for radio, beginning with a series of 26 concerts in 1931 with the Canadian Grenadier Guards Band for CBS Radio in the United States.

Peggy Noonan

Noonan worked as the daily CBS Radio commentary writer for anchorman Dan Rather at CBS News, whom she once called "the best boss I ever had."

Robert Lewis Shayon

Robert Lewis Shayon (August 15, 1912 – June 28, 2008) was a writer and producer for WOR and for the CBS Radio in New York City.

The Michelangelo

The George Hall Orchestra (sometimes called the George Hall Taft Hotel Orchestra) performed from the hotel on Monday through Saturday at noon on CBS Radio, starring Dolly Dawn.

Tony Jarvis

After that he was Senior Vice President, Director of Strategic Information at CTN Media Group, and Senior Vice President of Infinity Broadcasting Corporation (CBS Radio).


Dave Pasch

Before working with ESPN, Pasch worked for the West Virginia Radio Corporation for high school football; CBS Radio/Westwood One for golf, NFL, and college basketball tournaments; Fox Sports for NFL Europe and NFL, Detroit Vipers, and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.

Everyzing

The company licenses its technology to media companies including NBC Universal, Fox, Cox Radio, CBS Radio, and Entercom Communications.

Floyd Gibbons

Competition from Paul Whiteman's show on CBS Radio, however, brought Gibbons' show to an end by March 1930.

IHeartRadio

On June 8, 2012, iHeartRadio concluded a deal to power Yahoo! Music's Radio service, previously powered by CBS Radio.

In the News

Three new one-minute segments were produced each week, narrated by CBS Radio News Washington Correspondent Dan Raviv.

KAMX

In 2006, Entercom Radio announced its acquisition of Mix 94.7, along with 14 other radio stations in Austin, Cincinnati (OH), Memphis (TN) and Rochester (NY), from CBS Radio, with the acquisition made official on November 30, 2007.

KROE

The Clark Howard Show, Dr. Joy Browne, Handel on the Law, and Coast To Coast AM are also heard on KROE, as well as national news from both CBS and CNN.

KZJK

Nationwide Communications bought both the AM and FM stations from the estate of its longtime owner Roy Park, then Nationwide was bought by Jacor, which spun the station off to Infinity Broadcasting (which later became part of CBS Radio).

Our Secret Weapon: The Truth

Our Secret Weapon: The Truth had its origins in the Freedom House radio program Our Secret Weapon (1942–43), a CBS Radio series hosted by Rex Stout, which was created to counter Axis shortwave radio propaganda broadcasts during World War II.

Robert Paul Smith

He worked as a writer for CBS Radio and wrote four novels: So It Doesn't Whistle (1946) (1941, according to Avon Publishing Co., Inc., reprint edition ... Plus Blood in Their Veins copyright 1952); The Journey, (1943); Because of My Love (1946); The Time and the Place (1951).

Todd Glickman

He has held a number of consulting assignments, including voice-over artist for Boston-area video production houses, per diem reporter for CBS Radio news, and aviation weather instructor for the US Airways Shuttle.

Two Prudential Plaza

CBS Radio occupies the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th floors, including WBBM, WBBM-FM, WJMK-FM, WXRT, WUSN, WSCR and WCFS

We Will Never Die

He also wrote propaganda songs (some for broadcast in Germany); incidental music for Your Navy, a radio program written by Maxwell Anderson and jointly commissioned by CBS Radio and NBC Radio; music for Salute to France, a U.S. propaganda film directed by Jean Renoir; and four patriotic melodramas for Helen Hayes, recorded by RCA Victor under the title Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory.

Wilks Broadcasting

On December 20, 2008; Wilks Broadcasting recently purchased CBS Radio's Denver, Colorado radio cluster for $19.5 million in CBS Corporation's effort to divest mid-market stations.

WKVP

The station took the branding of "IQ 106.9" (for "Intelligence quotient"), and intended to go after CBS Radio's mainstay stations in Philadelphia, KYW (all-news) and WPHT (talk), with a combination of news, information, and conservative-leaning talk that at times would have an irreverent, us-against-them tone.


see also

Alexander Zonjic

Since 1997, Alexander Zonjic was the morning show host of WVMV, now WDZH-FM (Smooth Jazz V98.7), a smooth jazz radio station in Detroit, Michigan until CBS Radio ceased broadcasting smooth jazz over the airwaves on October 2, 2009.

Barbara Ciara

Ciara previously served as vice president of broadcast for NABJ – becoming the public face and voice of black journalists nationwide protesting the actions of shock jock Don Imus during the association’s call for his removal from MSNBC and CBS Radio in 2007.

CBS News Weekend Roundup

It includes interviews with CBS News radio and TV correspondents and various newsmakers, compilations of reports through the week that have aired both on CBS-TV and CBS Radio, as well as commentary from actor and TV personality Charles Grodin.

Christopher Glenn

Glenn made his best-known report on January 28, 1986, when he anchored CBS Radio's live coverage of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Drifting and Dreaming with Jo Stafford

Originally known as The Carnation Contented Hour, and co-hosted by Stafford and Dick Haymes on CBS Radio, the show was renamed as The Melody Hour and its commercial content edited out for re-broadcast to the Armed Forces.

E. Power Biggs

Between 1942 and 1958, he also hosted a weekly radio program of organ music (carried throughout the United States on the CBS Radio Network) that introduced audiences to the pipe organ and its literature.

Ferndale, Michigan

Kevin Price, syndicated columnist, host of the Price of Business on CBS Radio in Houston

Greg Nibler

With in a short period of time Greg became an integral part of the show, and became the Production Assistant for the rest Rick Emerson's tenure at CBS Radio Portland.

ICast

By the spring of 2007, the iCast was cancelled and replaced by a recording of CBS Radio's World News Roundup, anchored by Nick Young.

KZON

On June 21, 2007, at 5 PM, during the Tom Leykis show, CBS Radio decided to pull the plug and began stunting with an effeminate male, known as "Ronaldo", playing all-Paris Hilton music in an attempt to demand for the release of her from jail (she was serving a brief jail sentence at the time).

Melanie Pullen

Pullen's photographic series have also been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including: San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times Magazine, LA Times, ArtReview, The London Independent on Sunday Review, Vogue, Elle, Fortune, W, GQ, RollingStone, Nylon, Photo, Art Forum, National Public Radio, CBS Radio and CBS News.

Radio 1212

Radio 1212 or Nachtsender 1212 was a black propaganda radio station operated from 1944 to 1945 by the Psychological Warfare Branch of the US Office of War Information (OWI) under the direction of CBS radio chief William S. Paley, who was based in London.

Also using these facilities was the Psychological Warfare Branch of the United States Office of War Information (OWI) under the management of CBS radio chief William S. Paley.

Robert Bidinotto

He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television programs, including CBS radio's Crosstalk, CNN's Sonya Live, Geraldo, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Bob Grant Show, CNBC's Rivera Live, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Some Fine Old Chestnuts

The 1954 edition of Some Fine Old Chestnuts featured eight standards recorded on June 26, 1953, for Crosby's weekly CBS radio show with a trio led by Crosby's regular pianist Buddy Cole.

The Ticket

WXYT-FM, a CBS Radio-owned FM sports-talk station in Detroit, Michigan, also known as 97.1 The Ticket.

The World Today

The World Today, a former name of the weekend edition of CBS World News Roundup, a radio news broadcast on the CBS Radio Network

WQSR

After playing songs at CBS Radio's Baltimore studios such as "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men, R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and "Goodbye Stranger" by Supertramp at roughly 11:57PM, the station went to dead air as Clear Channel officially took control over the station.

WVEE

As of 2012 both WVEE and WPEG are the only CBS Radio Urban properties remaining, as two other Urbans had shifted to Rhythmic: WPGC-FM in Washington, D.C. (which is a larger radio market); and WJHM/Orlando, which switched formats from Urban to rhythmic contemporary in February 2012.