Now that CBS Radio Network is toast, only a few radio news networks are left. ABC, Fox, AP, NPR, iHeart (rent a news network), and SRN (evangelical right wing). Is this the end of journalism on radio?

It’s hard to believe, that in the 1970s and 1980s we had all these radio news networks:  CBS News, CBS RadioRadio, NBC News, NBC Source, ABC Information, ABC FM, ABC Direction, ABC Entertainment, ABC Contemporary, ABC Rock, Mutual Comprehensive, Mutual Progressive, Mutual Lifestyle, Mutual Black Network, National Black Network, American Urban Information Radio, United Press International Radio, Associated Press Radio, RKO One, RKO Two, CNN Radio, Satellite News Network, and NPR. It seems with the demise of AM radio which heavily relied on news and information programing, radio networks were not able to expand to FM radio. FM programmers wanted more music and less talk, so radio news networks started to vanish. Plus the federal government no longer required stations to have news and public service programs, so many FM stations were free to become the music jukeboxes they are today.