Listeners to a collection of Audacy Inc.-owned spoken word stations in the nation’s top markets will continue hearing news and information from CBS News Radio. It is thanks to a new, multi-year affiliation agreement with the audio content creation and distribution company.
Under the terms of the agreement, CBS News Radio will deliver its news coverage to 27 Audacy-owned stations, including WCBS-AM 880 in New York; WBBM-AM & WCFS-FM in Chicago; KYW-AM & WPHI-FM in Philadelphia; KNX-AM & FM in Los Angeles; and KCBS-AM & KFRC-FM in San Francisco, among other properties.
The agreement includes CBS News Radio’s top-of-the-hour newscasts, the CBS World News Roundup, breaking news, special events coverage, correspondent interviews and audio. It also gives the Audacy stations the ability to simulcast CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell telecasts as well as 60 Minutes and Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.
The Audacy deal comes as the nation’s top-billing radio station, WTOP Radio in Washington, D.C., on Thursday affirmed its relationship with CBS News Radio as its primary network news source. This came on word that WTOP Radio had aligned itself with ABC News Radio. That agreement positions the Compass Media Networks/Linkup-provided service as a secondary provider to the Hubbard Radio all-News giant, allowing listeners to again hear reports from ABC News correspondents including Jonathan Karl, Karen Travers, and former longtime CBS News Radio correspondent Stephen Portnoy.
