Extended Interview: Dan Rather on CBS News Radio
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
CBS News veteran Dan Rather talks with Mo Rocca about the impact that the heralded CBS Radio News had on him – as a child growing up in Texas, and as a young journalist learning by the example of "Murrow's Boys." He also discusses CBS Radio News' role in the evolution of broadcast journalism.
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| 0:46.0 | As you've probably heard, CBS Radio is signing off after a legendary 99-year run. |
| 0:53.3 | Mo Rocca talks with another CBS News legend, Dan Rather, about the end of an era. As a kid growing up in Texas, did you listen to CBS News Radio? |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, indeed. |
| 1:00.0 | There was the local station in Houston, Texas was K-T-R-H, the so-called voice of the Golden Gulf Coast. |
| 1:10.0 | It was the local radio station. |
| 1:12.6 | They were a CBS affiliate. Family, for whatever reason, gravitated CBS early. |
| 1:18.6 | I think it's because CBS had a going news operation before, almost before anybody else in terms of radio but yes we heard you |
| 1:29.8 | know Morrow Severide Collingwood took all Murrow boys it was corresponded my |
| 1:37.1 | first memory I was born in 1931 and my memory isn't clear until I was about six, seven, maybe eight years old. |
| 1:47.0 | But I think in as early as five or six, for whatever reason, my father and mother were very interested in what was happening in Germany. |
| 1:58.0 | That was not the case with everybody. Followed the newspapers very carefully, |
| 2:02.6 | and they loved radio because radio had what my father called immediacy. And in a phrase that was |
| 2:10.3 | later used when it comes to television, radio, he viewed radio, he and my mother viewed |
| 2:16.9 | radio as a kind of magic carpet. |
| 2:19.7 | They would take you there. |
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