Radio Broadcasting
CBS News Radio Shutdown 'Illogical': Industry Vet says CBS News under Bari Weiss shut down its 99-year-old radio division, a low-cost operation that reached an estimated 20 million listeners a week—far more than the network’s “Evening News With Tony Dokoupil,” which is lucky to top 4 million viewers. MORE
Giants Broadcaster Cancer: MLB Giants broadcaster Duane Kuiper, 76, has been diagnosed with throat cancer and began treatment last week at Stanford Medicine, his longtime partner Mike Krukow’s final homestand approaching. MORE
Heart Transplant Option: KNBR's Greg Papa watched the 49ers’ home opener Sunday from a San Francisco hospital room, not the broadcast booth, after a heart condition flared two weeks ago and left him facing a possible heart transplant or alternative procedure. MORE
Media Industry
PSKY Concessions: Paramount and California’s attorney general have discussed a $1.5 billion California production investment and other concessions in advanced settlement talks that could resolve lawsuits blocking Paramount’s $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. MORE
Trump Ban: White House Correspondents’ Association President Jacqui Heinrich on Saturday called on President Donald Trump to immediately lift his ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW, saying the move “violates the First Amendment” and denies the public independent scrutiny of the presidency. MORE
Home Entertainment: Out-of-home entertainment has become far more expensive than everyday living costs, leaving many people feeling that staying home is the only affordable option. MORE
U-S News
Press Ban Enforced: Secret Service agents denied CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists entry to the White House on Saturday and confiscated their press passes, one day after President Donald Trump said he was banning the three outlets. MORE
No Pressers: President Donald Trump is in “no rush” to name a successor to former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, even as several high-profile allies jockey for the job more than three weeks after she left. MORE
"He Died In My Arms": Patrick Clancy gave his first televised interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” discussing his grief, the mistrial in his ex‑wife Lindsay Clancy’s triple‑murder trial, and his decision to forgive her despite ongoing online conspiracy theories. MORE
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