CBS Radio has announced the signing of  Carson Daly for wakeup duties at KAMP “Amp 97.1″ Los Angeles beginning Monday January 4th,  and it’s not a stretch to think that this would have future radio syndication possibilities for CBS.  Daly did nights on sister station KROQ-FM before he went on to host MTV’s Total Request Live and  “Last Call with Carson Daly” show for NBC. This pits two personalities with somewhat similar career tracks …

Don Imus has come full circle after his debut on Fox Business Network this morning. He’s all the way back from his ordeal in the spring of 2007 when he made racially insulting remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. After being fired from CBS Radio, which distributed his radio show nationally and from MSNBC which had simulcast the show for 11 years, he signed a deal with Citadel Media to do …

CBS Radio‘s Sunday morning fixture on WBMX Boston, “Acoustic Sunrise”, is bringing its eclectic mix of Hot AC acoustic jams to four additional CBS Radio stations and markets. Hosted by Dan O’Brien the newly syndicated radio show, a mix of acoustic songs and in-studio cuts from CBS AC stations across the country launched on New York’s Fresh 102.7 WWFS, Houston’s Mix 96.5 KHMX, Washington D.C.’s Fresh 94.7 WTGB and Hartford’s 96.5 TIC WTIC.

“It’s nice to do a show that’s not, you know, cluttered with commercials, and the FCC, and a program director with an agenda and a lot of commercial reads. It’s pure, uncut, un-stepped on Adam,” – Adam Carolla on the daily podcasts that he launched after his syndicated radio show was cancelled by CBS Radio in February. Now the  two have a renewed partnership. Carolla will take his popular podcast to CBS Radio, …

*UPDATE* (The president appeared on Michael Smerconish’s Dial Global syndicated radio show on Thursday and spoke to Democratic supporters, focusing primarily on his health reform effort.)  Dial Global and CBS Radio syndicated radio host  Michael Smerconish has been invited by President Obama to broadcast his nationally-syndicated radio show from the White House Thursday afternoon (8/20), a first for radio during the Obama administration. Smerconish tweeted a tease to his listeners regarding the invitation this …

CBS Radio is flipping one of its two Los Angeles news stations, KFWB, to News/Talk on Tuesday, September 8, with Take On The Day syndicated radio host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger as a linchpin of the new lineup. KFWB will become the flagship station for the Dr. Laura program, (which just announced a partnership deal with Talk Radio Network) as it moves over from crosstown KFI. “When the opportunity to add Dr. Laura, one of …

CBS Radio WAOK-AM debuts the return of  syndicated radio talkers Al Sharpton and Warren Ballentine to the Atlanta market beginning Wednesday (4/29). The shows which had been dropped from Radio One Urban AC WAMJ-FM in a series of frequency moves and format flips that left them without a home in the nations 9th largest radio market, will re-appear in the market with Warren Ballentine at 10am followed by Sharpton at 1pm.  Significant protest from Atlanta …

It’s  been rumored for weeks  now it’s official, CBS Radio Atlanta has picked up syndicated radio talkers Al Sharpton and Warren Ballentine. The shows which had been dropped from Radio One Urban AC WAMJ-FM in a series of frequency moves and format flips that left them without a home in the nations 9th largest radio market, will debut Wednesday April 29th on WAOK-AM. After significant protest from listeners regarding the decision to replace the …

Dial-Global CBS Radio syndicated talker Michael Smerconish has published his fourth book, Morning Drive: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking.  Smerconish says his latest tome is really two books in one, “One is a political manifesto in which I offer viewpoints on every issue, from same sex relationships to the hunt for bin Laden. The other is a behind-the-scenes look at the world of Talk radio and …

Dial-Global/CBS Radio syndicated midday host Michael Smerconish has responded to affiliate demand and adds a third hour to his national midday show. Beginning Monday (3/30) Smerconish will air live from noon-3pm ET, as well as live in mornings 6-9am ET, Monday-Friday. Also starting Monday Smerconish joins the lineup at CBS Radio News Talker KRLD Dallas.