The hourly tone at this point (heard between 5:04 and 5:05) was :00.7 sec. (700 ms) in duration, and was roughly ~750 Hz. Can't tell if it was sine or triangle, given all the processing and transmission artefacts. NBC's time tone durations over the decades ranged from 250 ms to 300 ms to 400 ms to 500 ms, and then this. Its frequencies ranged from as low as 687.5 to as high as 810 Hz.

This is so great, just I remember it. Thank you. Too bad it was recently changed completely.

The Blue Network became ABC.

Love this Charles You really bring me joy just to hear these news casts from years ago,a world that wasn’t as complex and dark as our present one.Thank you again Charles for these soothing memories

Thanks for this. Great to see new material.

It’s funny how many people want to do this again even though we KNOW it was a huge disaster the first time.

The Happy Days was a true classic. And nice to hear it recorded live from 1976 😊

No nonsense

History in the making cool

I Miss CNN Radio News!

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I think anything can happen with 1210 am in Philadelphia now , given the FCC approval of the new ownership of audacy

I think anything can happen with 1210 am in Philadelphia now , given the FCC approval of the new ownership of audacy

The opening and closing V/O was the late Gaylord Avery.

Good radio in nyc is dead 😢😢😢😢😢

Do you know where I can find more clips like this?

Thank you, I started to cry the second I heard "AM740". I grew up around this time and this was my grandmothers favourite station

The tone after the SSB from WPIX sounds like ~392 Hz.

The announcer who interrupted "The Waltons" sounds like Bob Hite.

Wow! This brought back so many memories. I would rush home everyday in Philadelphia, so I could listen through the static to hear Bob & Ray. Tippy The Wonder Dog, and The Orderlies were my favorite bits. I recorded their show almost every day. Sadly, those tape are now so faded from playing them so often. I also remember listening to The Mighty Memory Mobile. I'm not sure why it was such a fascinating show to a 13 year old, but it was!

Love this! All these years I thought I was the only kid constantly recording radio stations. Glad I wasn't the only one!

Murrow!!😊

If 1010 WINS - by then fully into "All News, All the Time" - ran ads for Denison Clothes on the overnights, who would've read the iambic pentameter ad copy supplied by their ad agency - Paul Sherman, or Stan Z. Burns? (Burns' delivery sounded a bit more "folksy" in comparison to Sherman's.) Or whoever was anchoring on the overnights (among them, at that time, Tuck Stadler, Brad Sherman, Clarence Rock, Dan Scanlan and Paul Lockwood)?

Also . . . Bill Fahan was only at WCBS 3-4 months when this was taped. His arrival there - as well as that of George Reading, who headed the station's coverage of the Feb. 7, 1971 blackout - was mentioned in the May 5, 1969 issue of Broadcasting magazine. Bob Glenn had been there since December 1967 (when he arrived, he was listed as "Robert A. Glenn"; the Dec. 11, 1967 issue of Broadcasting also had Gary Maurer joining the station at the same time).

Great video! I love this sort of thing very much. I wonder how many of us grew up really liking certain commercials, but we never told anyone else about it? I didn't think anyone else paid attention to things like this. The music in a lot of radio commercials was really well done and could linger in my mind just as strongly as the hit songs.

Growing up in the 60's was a blessing.

Good one! I remember Charles Osgood, He died in January at 91. This was at the time of that tower shooter, there were a few of those crazies back then, but a lot now.

I was only 19, and I was working at my first job as a nursing home dietary aide when this happened. I was cleaning up one of the patients' dining room when I heard this over the ABC Evening News. Although I'm not a huge Elvis fan, I do like his music

The 'V for Victory' hourly time tone, if based on Dick Bertel's last anchored 6 P.M. news on WTIC-TV (Channel 3) one week prior to Travelers' sale of that station to Post-Newsweek being consummated (and its call letters changed to the current WFSB-TV), would, as of the time of this aircheck, have been around ~825 Hz for the 'dit-dit-dit' and ~650 Hz for the long note. Both 'sawtooth' tones. The business of how time tones are generated (no doubt connected to and synchronized with a station's master clock that, in turn, would be synch'd in with the NIST [formerly NBS] atomic clock) would be a story in and of itself. Would the tones as used by different radio stations have been in 15 Hz intervals (a la GE's Type 99 paging tones that were also used for two-way radios)? For example, listening to old WOR 710 airchecks, and having digitized off the air in the early 2000's, I detected their tone from c.1971 to 2005 (as generated by an Allen Organ oscillator) as 757.5 Hz for :00.5 seconds, every hour on the hour. NBC was all over the place - 772.5 Hz as of the JFK assassination in 1963, 802.5 Hz on a TV aircheck of the Stanley Cup final game where the Philadelphia Flyers won the Cup in 1974, 717.5 Hz on a radio aircheck of New Year's Eve 1970 into 1971 . . .

Having grown up in the era of AM only (or mostly), this is very sad. As a kid, I would sit in front of my old 5-tube superhet and listen until the wee hours of the morning as all the night-time powerhouse stations boomed in. Locally, WIBC-AM went silent a few years ago although the callsign lives on as WIBC-FM. But it will never have the draw of listening to those nightly airwaves for 'who knows what' to roll in. In a way, it was like physically travelling the country to visit all those other places.

The voice heard before the start of the UPI radio news was Alison Steele (1937-1995), late of WNEW-FM, at the time on the AM. Pye Chamberlayne's reports were also heard for years on WCBS Newsradio 88.

Missed this just in and top of the hour was i grew up on WTOP am 1500 and other cbs newsradio stations remembered hearing 880 am from dc on clear crisp nights

I made a typo in my posting. I said July 1, 198. I meant to say July 1, 1987, for the date of WHN's demise. Posting 9-7-24.

KCBS LOS ANGELES AM It does not dishonor WCBS 880 AM. WINS 1010 is terrible. 😮

🎉😢 just isn't right. 💔

Wow!

Times are a changin!

WCBS

No wonder I'm not getting them on the radio anymore. I moved out of New York 11 years ago to Wisconsin. Every night I can still listen to. 880 am and hear them as clear as when I grew up in Brooklyn. How disappointing!

Need to trim off that last bit at the end.

Is it my imagination, or does the opening tone sound almost like a sawtooth 682.5 Hz (or as in those days, "c.p.s.") or something like that?

WBBM! News Radio 780 - Chicago!

I used to drive down to New York from New England daily my company had a terminal in Hackensack. It was 880 1010 and 1130 . three traffic reports in 10 minutes such a shame

I used to drive down to New York from New England daily my company had a terminal in Hackensack. It was 880 1010 and 1130 . three traffic reports in 10 minutes such a shame

I didn't know that Michael Cole of WWE worked for CBS Radio before going to WWE

WOW! When even CSB can't hold on to AM radio - it's a sad, sad day. Every day more and more is lost to time. I guess I am becoming my father and just miss the small things in life.

Retire the Callsign, Retire the Frequency. Goodnight WCBS

It saddens me to lose another station. In my youth I used to DX overnight in the late 70's and 80's. I had numerous QSL cards/letters from various stations all over. I have not done that in years and just a few nights ago a friend who is a ham operator and I were discussing the dying off stations.

Even though I was never a WCBS listener, this brings back so many memories. I'm in upstate, closer to the adirondacks, so our main station growing up in the 1970s was 810 WGY out of Albany. Fortunately they are still on the air , and recently I believe they celebrated their 100 year anniversary. But what caused me to leave a comment was this person's comment about listening to the radio every morning with their parents. I did the exact same thing. All of us, mom, dad, me and my sister at the breakfast table. The radio was always on in the morning, and it was always on in the evening. Our radio was a small Zenith tabletop model that sat on a shelf on the side of the kitchen. Yes television was on in the evening as well but the radio was always first. I can remember like it was yesterday lying in my bed working my energy to get up, and listening to the radio playing from the kitchen down the hall. At the time it was a man named Ray Faulkner who was the weather expert at Suny Albany College. And he would always say, "Reporting from the ASRC at the University at Albany." I can remember that so clearly. Actually I never really knew what he was saying with that asrc part, I thought he was saying something like arcy lol. It was until years later that I realize what it was saying was the abbreviation for the atmospheric science and research center at the college. But yes, listening to the radio was the way of life back then. It's where you got the majority of your news and weather. And as others have said, it was just the news, straight news, no political twist, no bias, just what you needed to know. No useless BS. It is really so very sad how much we have lost in society today. It brings a tear to my eye matter of fact. I have to say, I have other health issues on currently battling as well, but for numerous reasons, I would go back to those days in a heartbeat! Absolutely! How I wish that was possible... I'm sorry to all you regular WCBS listeners, I'm sorry for your loss. It truly is.

I'm sure a few tears were shed when realiising this is the last time anyone going to do this here.