CBS News has agreed to a new multi-year affiliation agreement with Audacy to continue to provide its full news and programming to 27 stations including 880 WCBS New York, 1070 KNX/97.1 KNX-FM Los Angeles, and 740 KCBS/106.9 KFRC San Francisco.
The stations will retain access to CBS News Radio’s top-of-the-hour newscasts, CBS World News Roundup, interviews, audio clips, breaking news, specials events, and simulcasts of television programming.
Listeners in the nation’s top markets will continue hearing the best-in-class news and information from CBS News Radio under a new, multi-year affiliation agreement with Audacy. Under the terms of the agreement, CBS News Radio will deliver its award-winning global news coverage to 27 Audacy-owned stations, including WCBS 880 (WCBS-AM) in New York, KNX News (KNX-AM/FM) in Los Angeles and KCBS All News (KCBS-AM/KFRC-FM) in San Francisco.
CBS News Radio will provide its full news and programming to the Audacy stations, including top-of-the-hour newscasts, CBS WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP, breaking news, special events coverage, correspondent interviews and audio.
“This new agreement ensures listeners in the top markets continue to get CBS News Radio’s award-winning national and global news for years to come,” said Steve Raizes, executive vice president of podcasting and audio for Paramount Global. “This new agreement continues our long-running relationship with Audacy and its stations.”
Under the new agreement, Audacy’s stations will also have the ability to simulcast iconic CBS News broadcasts such as the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH NORAH O’DONNELL, 60 MINUTES and FACE THE NATION WITH MARGARET BRENNAN.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com