media news: A new 24 hr radio news (and talk...) network starting up

[danny burstein]

disclosure: I'm an acquantance of the CEO, a NY gazillionaire who's
very prominent in RW circles. No financial or other ties, although
he did invite me to his table at NYC's "Inner Circle" event about
15 years ago.

https://www.redappleaudionetworks.com/worldwide-news-network/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Catsimatidis

© Red Apple Media 2026
NY, NY 10022

[rych withers home]

What's not to trust from folks bringing you Rita Cosby, Larry Kudlow,
Rockin' the Decades with Tony Orlando. Trump 2.00, Jeanine Perrero and Roger
Stone?

C Red Apple Media 2026
NY, NY 10022

[danny burstein]

On Thu, 21 May 2026, rych withers home wrote:

> What's not to trust from folks bringing you Rita Cosby, Larry Kudlow,
> Rockin' the Decades with Tony Orlando. Trump 2.00, Jeanine Perrero and Roger
> Stone?

On the other hand... Red Apple Media also gives us Tony Orlando
and... Cousin Brucie giving us a throwback to
"Music Radio W-A-B-C"
on Saturday nights.

[Jim Ellwanger]

All I know about John Catsimatidis is that, when he threatened to move to New Jersey and close his grocery stores in Manhattan if Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election, every single New Yorker on Bluesky talked about how awful the stores are and offered to help him pack.

[Mike Ward]

As the resident radio guy here... 

 

I have not heard of any affiliates so far, outside WABC/Red Apple itself. Most stations are moving to ABC, including all the Audacy big market ex-CBS O&O all news stations and, well, us (WAKR/Akron). 

 

Red Apple did hire at least four ex-CBS radio newsies, though. 

[Richard de Give]

A relief to know it's WWNN, not WNN, which would've messed with the YKW.

Meanwhile, hearing KCBS and KNX will switch affiliations to ABC when CBS Radio bites the dust in a week or so. 

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[danny burstein]

On Thu, 21 May 2026, Richard de Give wrote:

> A relief to know it's WWNN, not WNN, which would've messed with the YKW.
>
> Meanwhile, hearing KCBS and KNX will switch affiliations to ABC when CBS
> Radio bites the dust in a week or so.

WWJ here in flyover, MI, is Audacy. They've been announcing that CBS
will go bye bye and they'll no longer play the <sfx CBS intro music>
on the hour, but they're 9wwj) not going anywhere and will continue
providing all the news that's fit to print. Or something.

They haven't said what they'll be using in another 27 hours for
national/internation feeds, but we'll find out real soon.

(They've got a LOT of Bloomberg, so maybe?)

[Richard de Give]

Here's the Audacy stations that have or will make the switch to ABC. But more important, do we need a  polka here?

Former CBS-owned radio stations switch to ABC News Radio

[Mike Ward]

It will be, if they haven't switched already, ABC. It's one of the Audacy all-newsers.

[danny burstein]

On Fri, 22 May 2026, Mike Ward wrote:

> It will be, if they haven't switched already, ABC. It's one of the Audacy all-newsers.

==============

I've listened to WWJ / Detroit this motning. At the top of the hour
they've simply stayed with their local reporting.

Don't know if this is what they'll be sticking with or if they
intend to pick up NBC Blue and simply taking longer to hook up
due to holiday weekend.

[Mike Ward]

I am assuming that they will eventually pick up ABC, as you surmise, after the holiday weekend. 

 

The trade reports say Audacy signed up for ABC on all of its all-news and news/talk stations. 

[danny burstein]

I just listened to ABC News on the half hour at WWJ-950 Detroit,
so it looks like they've linked up

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[Richard de Give]

The last broadcast. Nice touch at the end.

https://youtu.be/ZMVT7obdIHY?si=9olg8KTVllKNj7RE