CBS News Radio, a pioneering force in American broadcast
journalism for nearly a century, will end its operations on
May 22, 2026, marking the conclusion of an era that began
in September 1927.

The shutdown follows a series of strategic and economic
changes within CBS News, with leadership citing challenging
economic realities and a shift in radio programming strategies
as key reasons.

Industry observers noted that radio’s share of the news
audience has “fallen off into the sea.”

            
Tom Cibrowski                            Bari Weiss
                    

 
Edward Roscoe Murrow 
(April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)     

Based on outcry from parents who bought into what may
have started as an idle rumor, the FBI launched a formal
investigation in 1964 into the supposedly pornographic
lyrics of the song “Louie, Louie.”

That investigation finally neared its conclusion on this
day in 1965, when the FBI Laboratory declared the lyrics
of “Louie Louie” to be officially unintelligible.

No one will ever know who started the rumor that “Louie
Louie” was dirty. As written by Richard Berry in 1955, the
lyrics revolve around a sailor from the Caribbean lamenting
to a bartender named Louie about missing his far-away love.