[3] CityBeat continues to sponsor the San Diego Music Awards, which was initially organized by Hellman's SLAMM magazine.
The addition of Rolland and other local editors to the show's guest list led Bob Kittle, then editor of the San Diego Union Tribune editorial page, and the editors of the San Diego Voice and Viewpoint and San Diego Metropolitan magazine, who until then had been the show's only panelists, to leave the show.
[9] Times Media Group acquired CityBeat in August 2019, fired Combs within a month, and stopped publishing soon after.
In 2013 and 2014, Kelly Davis and Dave Maass co-authored a series of stories in CityBeat on dozens of deaths in San Diego county jails between 2007 and 2012 and citing its extremely high county-jail mortality rate.
[11] In 2017, county attorneys subpoenaed Davis for her work, a measure that was seen as city officials stifling criticism and intimidating investigative journalism.