CBS News Radio will be winding down its operations over the next several weeks.

The news was shared via an internal memo from CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski and first confirmed to Streamline Publishing by Manager of Affiliate Services Amy Bolton, who is attending the Country Radio Seminar (CRS) in Nashville.

The memo confirms that May 22 will be the final day for the nearly century-old news service. Bolton, when contacted for confirmation of the news, noted that she is in the process of speaking with some of the approximately 700 affiliated stations about the upcoming closure of the audio service.

Among the stations that use CBS News Radio are Audacy properties formerly owned by CBS Radio, such as WBBM Radio in Chicago, KNX in Los Angeles, KCBS Radio in San Francisco and KMOX Radio in St. Louis. The top-billing radio station in the U.S., Hubbard Radio’s WTOP, also uses CBS News Radio’s top-of-the-hour newscasts as an integral part of its programming.

A WTOP representative tells Radio Ink no definitive decision has been made yet regarding what the station will air come May 23, and lamented the loss of jobs and disappearance of CBS News Radio.

(More coming in an op-ed soon)

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