> CBS News Radio itself had been whittled down to a handful of correspondents in recent years and is unprofitable

I know correlation isn't causation, but damn, that feels really on the nose.

> But because of “a shift in radio station programming strategies” and “challenging economic realities,”

From the inside, a complete failure to modernize off the terrestrial satellite network, weak investments in reporting technologies and equipment, and a completely mismanaged web strategy which sacrificed brand identity and invention for lame SEO gamesmanship and wacky wordpress plugins.

They decided somewhere in 2015 that they were done with radio and effectively just gave up. This has been the slowest shoe to drop but it has been inevitable for a while.