41-693: John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an American author and the host of Eye on the World on the CBS Audio Network . His flagship station is WOR in New York City. The show is a hard-news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. For five years, from early 2001 to September 2006, based at WABC radio in New York, his radio program The John Batchelor Show
82-412: A 24/7 sports radio network, " CBS Sports Radio ," in fall 2012. It was distributed through Cumulus Media Networks , owned by Cumulus Media . (Cumulus Media Networks was merged into Westwood One in 2013, following Cumulus' acquisition of Westwood One.) In 2017, CBS Sports Radio was sold to Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ) after it acquired CBS Radio. It now uses the title "Infinity Sports Network." While
123-455: A break for a while and the Tuesday guest as of early 2020 is Gregory R. Copley, publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs. On Wednesdays: an hour-plus with Gordon Chang on China and East Asia, and one or two segments on private exploration of space with Dr. David Livingston; on Thursdays: an hour with Mary Kissel on domestic U.S. politics, foreign policy, and matters Australian (until Kissel became
164-681: A break for several evenings, the show was often hosted by Jed Babbin , editor of Human Events in Washington, D.C.; sometimes by the former BBC journalist John Terrett, who now works for Al Jazeera ; and by Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company and WABC's Larry Kudlow Show . In 2012, Simon Constable of Dow Jones; Chris Riback, author and researcher, and Francis Rose of Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C., became primary fill-ins. Batchelor's show featured multiple guests, and shows were preceded by and interspersed with news clips and music. The show focused on myriad topics, including politics,
205-570: A half-interest in what became the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1928, and became its president. (In 1938, CBS bought its former parent, Columbia Records.) For more about the network's history, see CBS . On February 2, 2017, CBS Corporation announced that its shareholders had acquired a majority stake in Entercom (now Audacy, Inc. ), whose corporate management will continue to oversee the company along with CBS's radio assets. The merger
246-545: A morning talk show hosted by Michael Smerconish , based at WPHT Philadelphia , on some of its owned-and-operated stations. CBS handled the syndication of Grayson's show itself, while syndication for Smerconish's show to non-CBS stations had been outsourced to Dial Global (which at that time was not involved with the CBS Radio Network itself). Grayson's show, Overnight America , also entered national syndication via Dial Global on January 30, 2012. Smerconish discontinued
287-501: A playwright and biographer. The John Batchelor Show began its national syndication in April 2003. The program airs 20 hours a week on roughly 200 stations. Its focus is geopolitics, economics, war, history, hard sciences, literature, private space, whimsy, etc. Historically, it carried nightly (Mon-Fri) the "Loftus Report" featuring the intelligence commentator John Loftus on current, war-related, open-source intelligence . Aaron Klein , at
328-715: A second show as a guest host on KFI in Los Angeles, filling the vacancy caused by the departure of Matt Drudge , in the next three hours from 7–10 p.m. Pacific time. His first program featured an interview with Nick Grace of ClandestineRadio.com that broke the name of al Qaeda 's extranet, Obelisk, and the news that the extranet's security tightened following a press leak in September 2007. In 2009, Batchelor expanded his show to Saturday and Sunday nights, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., on most of his affiliates. The Saturday show focused more on authors of history books, while
369-519: A senior advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ), then an hour and a half with Malcolm Hoenlein on the Middle East. On March 5, 2021, Batchelor hosted his last episode of The John Batchelor Show on WABC and Westwood One, as WABC shuffled its format and the show ended its affiliation with Westwood One in favor of syndication by CBS News. Batchelor continued to produce show segments during March, styled as "The New John Batchelor Show". He noted during
410-550: A time was heard seven nights a week, using prerecorded material on weekends. Later, it aired Monday through Friday on WABC and many Westwood One network affiliates . Batchelor describes the show as a " news magazine " since he does not take phone calls from listeners but does a series of interviews with guests and reporters. The show's run on Westwood One ended in March 2021 as part of a reorganization at WABC, after which Batchelor almost immediately began his current show with CBS. Batchelor
451-478: Is a 1970 graduate of Princeton University . He briefly studied at the University of Edinburgh and is also a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York. John Batchelor co-hosted Batchelor and Alexander with writer Paul Alexander on WABC in New York for over two years. They focused on international issues with special attention to Middle East-based terrorism . Batchelor described their approach: "Our model
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#1732886819094492-402: Is an American weekly magazine / newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company , a division of News Corp , since 1921. Founded as Barron's National Financial Weekly in 1921 by Clarence W. Barron (1855–1928) as a sister publication to The Wall Street Journal , Barron's covers U.S. financial information, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a summary of
533-981: Is now known as WHSQ), and several other all-news and news-talk stations. They include KNX and KNX-FM in Los Angeles, WBBM in Chicago, KCBS in San Francisco, KRLD in Dallas , KYW in Philadelphia , WTOP-FM in Washington , WBZ in Boston , WWJ in Detroit, WCCO in Minneapolis , KXNT in Las Vegas , KMOX in St. Louis , and WTIC in Hartford . ( WINS and WINS-FM in New York do not carry
574-450: Is owned by iHeartMedia , and licenses use of the NBC name and audio from NBC News . CBS News Radio is one of the two national news services distributed by Skyview Networks, which transmits national news, talk, music and special event programs, in addition to local news, weather, video news and other information to radio and television stations, as well as traffic reporting services. The network
615-1340: Is the Grand Ole Opry , broadcast on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee since November 28, 1925.) All-news affiliates of CBS News Radio, listed by market rank: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NBC News Wall Street Journal Politico MSNBC / CNBC / Telemundo Bloomberg Government Washington Examiner Boston Globe / Washington Blade Fox News CBS News Radio AP Radio / PBS VOA Time Yahoo News Daily Caller / EWTN CBS News Bloomberg News McClatchy NY Post / TheGrio Washington Times Salem Radio / CBN Cheddar News / Hearst TV AP NPR Foreign pool The Hill Regionals Newsmax Gray TV / Spectrum News ABC News Washington Post Agence France-Presse Fox Business / Fox News Radio CSM / Roll Call Al Jazeera Nexstar / Scripps News Reuters NY Times LA Times Univision / AURN RealClearPolitics Daily Beast / Dallas Morning News BBC / Newsweek CNN USA Today ABC News Radio Daily Mail National Journal HuffPost Financial Times / The Guardian Barron%27s Magazine Barron's (stylized in all caps )
656-614: Is the BBC World Service , with music and live interviews, but without English accents." Alexander quipped: "We're not NPR , where they do setups to things on tape. Well, we could be NPR on drugs." Three days before the September 11 attacks , they presented a four-hour WABC show on the USS Cole bombing , interviewing several guests. Alexander left the show in December 2003 to pursue work as
697-515: Is the second-oldest unit of Paramount Global after Paramount Pictures . CBS Radio traces its roots to CBS's predecessor, United Independent Broadcasters, founded in 1927 with 47 network affiliates . The next year, Columbia Records invested in the radio network, which was named the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. Eventually, the record company pulled its backing from the struggling web. William S. Paley bought
738-701: The Wall Street Journal ; Jim McTague of Barron's Magazine ; Chuck Todd , then of The Hotline , now NBC Political Director; Fiona Harvey and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times ; Jodi Schneider of the Congressional Quarterly ; Matt Bai and A. O. Scott of the New York Times ; Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen of The Nation ; Victor Davis Hanson, Henry Miller, and Larry Diamond of
779-578: The CBS Radio Network , is a radio network that provides news to more than 1,000 radio stations throughout the United States. The network is owned by Paramount Global . It is the last of the three original national U.S. radio networks (CBS, NBC Radio Network and Mutual Broadcasting System ) still operating and still owned by its original parent company, even though CBS sold its owned and operated radio stations in 2017. The current NBC Radio Network
820-655: The Eagles song ), which was a discussion of California's former fiscal discombobulation and its political environment, including the gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Devin Nunes generally is included in the roundtable; also, Hotel Mars, episode n. Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack frequently comes on to talk about NASA and the space program , preceded by the music from the Star Trek end credits. The show's last segment (c.12:55 am EST) invariably features Al Bowlly 's " Midnight,
861-622: The war on terror , nuclear proliferation , the UN, African civil wars, American history , space exploration and even Hollywood scandals. The Jerusalem Post has an audio archive of Batchelor and Alexander segments from 2002 and 2003 that deal with Israel and the Middle East. To report on breaking news, Batchelor and his executive producer have travelled domestically to hotspots, and to Azerbaijan, Qatar, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan, France, Poland and Taiwan. They landed in Taipei to broadcast for
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#1732886819094902-558: The Hoover Institution; Adrian Wooldridge, Robert Guest, and John Parker of the Economist ; Monica Crowley ; David Grinspoon, resident expert on the planet Mars and outer space, and Robert Zimmerman, award-winning NASA observer. The program daily featured reports from journalists who filed with the world's most respected press outlets, and the show was reliably a few days ahead of the news cycle. When John Batchelor occasionally took
943-764: The Stars and You ", ending in a brief (<30sec) valediction/good-night, sometimes with a few moments with a guest (time for one question). The singer is sometimes mistaken for Al Jolson , as Batchelor introduces the singer simply with "here's Al," and the song dates from the time of Bowlly's late career. From 2001 to 2006, Batchelor ended his show with Kate Smith singing " God Bless America ." John Avlon , Jeff Bliss, Gordon Chang , Simon Constable , Taegan Goddard , Malcolm Hoenlein , Mary Kissel , Larry Kudlow , Francis Rose, and Chris Riback have frequently guest-hosted or co-hosted. CBS News Radio CBS News Radio , formerly known as CBS Radio News and historically known as
984-671: The Sunday show focused on breaking news and a wider range of topics. On November 24, 2009, WABC announced that the Batchelor show would be also airing weeknights from 9 pm to 1 am, effective November 30. Batchelor was a frequent guest on the Gene Countryman Show , KNSS, Wichita, Kansas, Sundays at 8 pm Eastern. Batchelor on Tuesdays formerly featured an hour with Larry Kudlow on finance (until Kudlow became an advisor to President Trump), and then an hour with professor Stephen Cohen on Russia. Professor Cohen elected to take
1025-631: The morning show in 2011 and Grayson's show ended its national distribution a few years later. Three of CBS's television programs are currently simulcast over CBS News Radio affiliates; those are Face the Nation , 60 Minutes , and the CBS Evening News . Some stations, including WCBS in New York and WBZ in Boston, aired the entire Evening News . In addition, the Late Show with David Letterman Top Ten List
1066-587: The morning show, which airs at 8 am ET and 7 am PT, while Jennifer Keiper hosts the evening edition at 7 pm ET. Each Friday afternoon, the network also distributes the CBS News Weekend Roundup , an hour-long look at the top stories of the week, hosted by correspondent Allison Keyes. CBS News Radio has an impressive list of reporters around the world including Jim Krasula, Peter King, Linda Kenyon, Cami McCormick , Vicki Barker, Elaine Cobbe, Sabina Castelfranco and Robert Berger. Mark Knoller
1107-769: The nation's capital. During the overnight hours, the CBS News 24/7 streaming service carries a simulcast of CBS News Radio's top-of-the-hour reports. In March 2021, CBS News Radio hired John Batchelor to host a nightly newsmagazine, Eye on the World . Batchelor had previously hosted an eponymous show that was syndicated through Westwood One and, before that, through ABC Radio Networks . CBS News Radio offers several weekly one-hour programs to its affiliates for airing on Saturdays and Sundays. They include The CBS News Weekend Roundup with Allison Keyes, CBS Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg , Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger and The Takeout with Major Garrett . Historically,
1148-563: The network's World News Roundup is the longest-running news show on radio or TV in the U.S., the title of longest-running network radio show of any kind goes to another CBS Radio program— Music and the Spoken Word , a half-hour of music and inspirational thought featuring the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square . It began on July 15, 1929, and currently airs each Sunday morning at 11:30 Eastern Time. (The longest running radio show of any kind
1189-574: The network's Newsfeed service. Many of the aforementioned outlets make heavy use of the CBS network feed material throughout their broadcast day. The network is home to the morning and evening editions of the CBS World News Roundup , U.S. broadcasting's oldest news series. The Roundup dates back to a special network broadcast on March 13, 1938, featuring live reports from Europe on Germany's annexation of Austria . Since 2010, Steve Kathan has anchored
1230-403: The newscasts but make use of voicers and actualities from CBS News Radio.) CBS News Radio offers hourly News-on-the-Hour newscasts (available in three- and six-minute versions) and a one-minute newscast at 31 minutes past the hour. They are sent to member stations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to the over-the-air product, reports and actualities are made available to affiliates via
1271-415: The previous week's market activity as well as news, reports, and an outlook on the week to come. Features in the publication include: The magazine has been published by Dow Jones & Company since 1921. The magazine is named after Clarence W. Barron , an influential figure to Dow Jones and a founder of modern financial journalism . Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal . In 1990, color
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1312-696: The segments that the show is "represented by CBS Audio Network." In April 2021, the show returned to stations across the country. The material is streamed on AudioBoom , linked from Batchelor's website; specific segments are announced on Twitter as they are available. In May 2021, Batchelor began identifying the show as CBS Eye on the World. On Monday, November 1, 2021, the program debuted on WOR in New York, airing from 9 p.m. to midnight, Monday through Friday. Writing as John Calvin Batchelor Writing as Tommy "Tip" Paine Regular segments include "Hotel California" (introduced by an instrumental version of
1353-501: The sports coverage now produced by Westwood One was branded as CBS Radio Sports and, like the news features, was associated with the CBS Radio Network. However, after CBS began managing the original Westwood One in the mid-1990s, the sports broadcasts came under the Westwood One banner (with both identities used in the late 1990s. It was a practice that would continue even after CBS stopped managing Westwood One in 2007. CBS launched
1394-580: The time Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, was also a regular and served as a co-host. Other regular contributors included Malcolm Hoenlein , the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ; the New York attorney and taste-maker Ed Hayes; Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company ; Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution ; John Fund, Bret Stephens, Dan Henninger, Rob Pollock and Kim Strassel of
1435-451: The week leading up to the 2004 elections when, on the last day of electioneering, both the president and the vice-president were shot and wounded by an unknown assailant. In 2006, Batchelor announced that his ABC show would be canceled, beginning with the show scheduled for Monday, September 4. Batchelor returned on WABC as the host of a weekly version of the previous show on October 7, 2007, from 7–10 pm Eastern Time. He then hosted
1476-546: Was syndicated nationally on the ABC Radio Network . On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC, and later to other large market stations on a weekly basis. As of November 30, 2009, Batchelor was once again hosting a nightly show on WABC, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern Time and heard in many major markets across the country through what eventually became the Westwood One network. The program for
1517-459: Was also broadcast by the network in a short-form-feature format until the show's conclusion with David Letterman's retirement in 2015. Other public-affairs features include CBS Healthwatch with Dr. Emily Senay, Raising Our Kids (formerly suffixed with in the 90s during that decade) with former WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll, What's in the News, and "Eye on Washington," a daily look at goings on in
1558-581: Was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th. The CBS News Radio network service will continue to be managed by CBS News. On August 2, 2017, CBS announced that it had signed a contract with Skyview Networks for distribution of CBS News Radio. This went into effect January 1, 2018. Today, CBS News Radio is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, including flagship station WCBS in New York (which ended their all-news format in August 2024 and
1599-688: Was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania , to an Assyrian mother from Iran and a Midwestern American father. He was raised primarily in the Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district . His mother and father both served in the United States Army during World War II ; his father also served in the Korean War . Batchelor is the eldest of five brothers. He
1640-452: Was introduced to the magazine and full color in January 1996. Barron's introduced a two-section version of the paper on March 7, 1994. Barrons.com was launched in 1996 as part of WSJ.com. In 2005, following "its first redesign in nearly 11 years" Barron's relaunched as a standalone product, months after their first Financial Advisor conference. In September 2008, Barron's acquired
1681-501: Was the network's long-time White House correspondent. Knoller often made additional appearances on CBS Television, especially if he was the day's pool reporter for the White House Press Corps. Knoller no longer filed radio reports after about 2011, transitioning to report mostly on twitter. He left CBS in 2020. In 2009, CBS launched a long-form late night talk program hosted by Jon Grayson, based at KMOX St. Louis , and