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Hari Sreenivasan is a CBS News correspondent based in Dallas.

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Enjoy the silence.

No, I'm not making reference to the Depeche Mode song of the same name.... but I might as well be. Turn on a streaming radio station today, and that is likely what you'll be doing. Chances are pretty good if you use a major service like Pandora or Rhapsody or Itunes or Yahoo or Live365's streaming channels to get your whistle-while-you-work ON, that you are hearing a looped public service announcement asking you to call your member of congress or telling you to log onto an online site for more information about the national day of silent protest.

If you are reading a blog, you are probably part of the slightly more savvy net crowd, who knows what streaming radio is and what is about to happen come July 15th.

In March, new rules set forth by the Copyright Royalty Board will make it much more expensive- far too expensive say radio streamers- to stay streaming on the zeroes and ones because it will shift their fees from a percentage of revenue to a per song per listener fee. There is currently legislation attempting to overturn these changes, but congress can be well... not the most nimble at times, and we'll see if this silence is what we'll have to get used to within a few weeks.

Today, a First Look field trip!

Katie visits the history-laden CBS News Radio newsroom, meets some of the staff, and recalls her own radio roots.

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"Get a job, want to do it real bad, do it real good, and stick with it. Practice, practice, practice. Same old story." – Retired CBS Newsman Christopher Glenn, offering his advice to young journalists just starting out. Chris died yesterday at the age of 68.

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When I first moved to New York, I toiled as a writer in CBS News Radio. In those days, the place was a forest of redwoods, with towering giants like Douglas Edwards, Reid Collins, Charles Osgood, and Christopher Glenn. A short time ago, we got word that one of those giants has fallen. Christopher Glenn passed away at the too-young age of 68.

One of my earliest memories of news is the voice of Christopher Glenn, summarizing the week's events on the Saturday morning TV show In the News. He was the voice of space launches, and hourly news reports, and The World Tonight and The World News Roundup. He had a voice that mingled cognac and cigarette smoke -- he was an inveterate, ceaseless smoker -- and both Chris and that famous voice seemed ageless. More than that voice, he had a gift for words, and a way of weaving a story that made it real and immediate. He ventured into television a few times, but he always returned to radio. It was where he belonged, in the "theater of the mind."

I was there when Douglas Edwards retired, and passed the baton to Chris Glenn, who took over The World Tonight from him in the late '80s. And I was there earlier this year when Chris himself retired. You had the sense then that an era was ending. It was. And it has.

So many of the redwoods are gone.

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