Editing CBS Radio (section)

== Early origins ==
CBS Radio is one of the oldest units within CBS Corporation, and has been around since 1928.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbscorporation.com/portfolio/cbs-television-network/|title=CBS Television Network {{!}} CBS Corporation|website=www.cbscorporation.com|language=en-US|access-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> However, the actual CBS Radio Network (now [[CBS News Radio]]) was launched in 1927, when CBS itself was known as United Independent Broadcasters.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/25/archives/cbs-radio-to-scan-50-years.html|title=CBS Radio to Scan 50 Years|last=Brown|first=Les|date=August 25, 1977|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=February 2, 2017}}</ref> [[Columbia Records]] later joined in and that company was renamed the Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System. In September 1927, Columbia Records sold the company to [[William S. Paley]] and in 1928, Paley streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System.

In 1940, Paley also joined forces with the journalist [[Edmund Chester]] at CBS Radio and [[Nelson Rockefeller]] at the Department of State's [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]]  to launch the imaginative Network of the Americas (La Cadena de Las Americas) in 1942.<ref name="content.time.com">''Time'' - Radio: La Cadena, June 1, 1942 [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790530-1,00.html William S. Paley, La Cadena de las Americas on Content.time.com]</ref><ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=W4IgALTXtH4C&dq=Edmund+A.+Chester&pg=PT163 ''In All His Glory: the Life And Times of William S. Paley'']. Salley Bedell Smith. Random House. New York, 2002  p. 18 {{ISBN|978-0-307-78671-5}} William S. Paley, CBS, Edmund A. Chester on books.google</ref> This innovative radio network beamed both news and cultural programming live to North and South America in support of [[cultural diplomacy]] and [[Pan Americanism]] in accordance with President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s [[Good Neighbor policy]] during World War II.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ql_sDwAAQBAJ&dq=CBS+Pan+American+Orchestra+Alfredo+Antonini&pg=PT74 ''Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America''. Han, Benjamin M. Rutgers University Press, 2022 La Cadena de las Americas, Edmund Chester, William S. Paley, Cold War diplomacy on Google Books]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx00pQIkclMC&q=Edmund+Chester&pg=PA166 ''Dissonant Divas In Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda''] Deborah R. Vargas. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2012 {{ISBN|978-0-8166-7316-2}} p. 152-157  Edmund Chester, CBS, Franklin Roosevelt  and "La Cadena De Las Americas" on google.books.com</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xYoYAAAAIAAJ&q=Edmund++Chester+New+York+Times ''Current Biographical Yearbook Volume 2''. H. W. Wilson Co. New York, 1941 p. 148 Edmund A. Chester CBS Director of Foreign Broadcasting - biography on books.google]</ref><ref name="books.google.com"/><ref name="content.time.com"/>