I'm going to miss WCBS news radio 88. It was a staple of my routine in getting ready for work in the morning. I will never ever forget the morning of September 11, 2001, listening to WCBS news radio. I was getting ready for work when suddenly I'm hearing about an airplane crash into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. I immediately turned to television, but all the local stations were off air. I tuned to CNN and saw one of the towers smoking. Shortly after, I saw the second tower explode. Thanks to WCBS news radio 88, I witness that horrible day in history.
@tomahawkseven2 ай бұрын
That was great! So many voices bringing back memories.
@josephmushatt41992 ай бұрын
I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!!!!
@johnmerryman18252 ай бұрын
Such a shame. Wayne is such a class act, miss the WCBS sound. The passion for news and great radio was so evident in 880, nothing else compares.
@MrRobKS2 ай бұрын
I'm going to miss WCBS. I used to call it the top 40 of news radio. great presentation, great newsmen, Announcers. Like Wayne Cabot I Loved this station, and I'm sorry to see it go
@bribrindo35442 ай бұрын
Wayne has one of the BEST on air voices and delivery I've ever heard!
@stevenbrennon92842 ай бұрын
So sad even though i live in NC i would listen to WCBS when i drove big truck s overnight a legendary news station dont think they will ever be another WCBS just hope all of the news anchors find jobs RIP WCBS you will dearly be missed by all take care.
@davidsharp31102 ай бұрын
I have always listened to WCBS Newsradio 88, especially at night here in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in the late 70s through today. Gonna miss that place on my dial. Thanks Ellis for the audio.
@EllisFeaster2 ай бұрын
@@davidsharp3110 you’re welcome. I’m going to miss it too!
@jeffscheiner15532 ай бұрын
Great news station. Real pros.
@WilliamTBooth-xn4pc2 ай бұрын
This is the last few days of WCBS 880 on NYC radio..to be soon a Sports station why do we need another sports station..really it saddens me that it's over
@MattZ6532 ай бұрын
This reminds me a lot of when WMAQ in Chicago ended their over 12 year run as an all-news station on August 1, 2000. They were replaced, you guessed it--by a sports station. Everyone in NYC and surrounding states, you are not alone.
@rickkaplan82652 ай бұрын
880 has been a preset for decades. As of Monday it’s gone. What a waste of an incredible signal. Great for Audacy. Sucks for listeners.
@Jeremy-iy1zd2 ай бұрын
This station, as far as I am concerned will forever be a staple in my hometown. The greater New York City metropolitan area. And the surrounding New York, New Jersey ,and Connecticut tri-state area. No matter what happens. Thank you so very much for this and that you do Mister Ellis B. Feaster. It is greatly appreciated. And keep up the great work.
@wmbrown62 ай бұрын
@@MattZ653 - The precedent was set in New York in October 1988 when another "heritage" and "legacy" station, WNBC AM 660, signed off forever, replaced on the dial with SportsRadio WFAN. Ironically, both that and this involved stations that until then had presences on 1050 AM. Moreover, since the 1960's WCBS and WNBC's transmitter was at High Island off City Island in the Bronx.
@featurebroadcast2972 ай бұрын
Greatness.
@davidsweet53392 ай бұрын
Part of the fabric of my life. I’ll never forget Tom Kaminsky reporting about the planes striking towers 1 and 2 and countless other memories from WCBS NewsRadio 880
@CommackMark2 ай бұрын
Wow! Great job. I too like you listened in the 1970s. I too wanted what you did but alas not as passionate about it as you were. I remember all those broadcaster names and the sounds. It brings back a lifetime of memories ...the clock radio playing in my parents suburban LI bedroom and it could be heard through out all the upstairs kids bedrooms...in the mornings before school... in the evenings after homework was done. Those long weekend days. And special joy was when eventful weather was coming... an impactful snowfall. And on the national/international segments at the top of the hour the weather forecast was seldom a topic. But after about 10 minutes the broadcast would convert back to the familiar teams of anchors and off to the weather Center we would go to discuss the impending snowstorm. Or even those 1st hot days of spring when we would get our 1st taste of summer. The weather reports were magical. I will miss you News Radio 88. And thank you Wayne Cabot for your great work and soothing voice. Thank you for putting together this trip down auditory memory lane. I hope maybe you guys can put together another venue...a podcast perhaps. You and the legacy of the great personalities that shaped my youth will be missed. Take solace in knowing radiating out from earth into the light year distances of space there are places the signal from the 1970s is just reaching now. There exists a place in the Milkyway where all these great memories of sound are just reaching..... it lives eternally as a signal for the enjoyment of places in the far reaches of space .. great sounds from NYC and our beloved youthful decades is still alive!
@EllisFeaster2 ай бұрын
@@CommackMark Wayne did an incredible job! They all did.
@danaschneider93182 ай бұрын
😢As we say goodbye to a fabulous all news radio station, my heart breaks but, as a daughter of one of the anchors (Pat Parson) I will always treasure the memories of listening to my Father and Ben Farnsworth on the air and visiting the studio. I'm grateful, for the rest of my life.... I can, ( with a warm smile on my face) always tune into recordings of the past and listen as much as I want. It's Bittersweet. Goodbye and Thanks for all the years of being there, when we needed you. Dana Parson Schneider
@EllisFeaster2 ай бұрын
@@danaschneider9318 I think we are all grateful as well.
@steventulloch49962 ай бұрын
I'll miss WCBS AM. Radio is definitely changing.
@sldl042 ай бұрын
Terrestrial radio has been dying for years--Sirius XM and apps are killing both FM and AM stations.
@jerryconnors86632 ай бұрын
Will miss WCBS 880 on the dial. Was a morning listener from the days of Jim Donnelly, Neil Bush in the chopper, Rich Lamb ( who was a passenger on a TWA L1010 that aborted a takeoff at JFK and caught fire. Luckily, everyone got out including Rich). Lotsa memories and great news reporting. Other names Ben Farnsworth, Craig Allen and more. 😢 ❤
@victorha99232 ай бұрын
thanks for the post. I hope people will post hour long blocks of Newsradio 88, especially from the 80s to 00s, now that it's all history, sigh. can't find footage
@Kpop10top2 ай бұрын
Will miss them forever. I feel a piece of NY has gone missing.
@raymondkb2nzo7882 ай бұрын
Really going to miss it very sad.
@jeff110302 ай бұрын
This was a great piece of production by Wayne! The anchors, the quarter hour and top of the hour sounders, the reporters….there are the people I listen to. And others like Jack Welby, Gil Gross, Rita Sands , Bridget Quinn ( in her first appearances and her resent return) Robert Vaughn and fill-in Bill Crowley and Don Gould on sports were some of my favorites. While I like WINS, but 4:18 I loved WCBS. The anchors on CBS while friendly, were always respectful and professional. The anchors at WINS always seemed to me to be sort of “wise guys”. Like there was some sort of joke going on, but we weren’t in on it. Never heard anything like that from WCBS. I feel bad for all the anchor, reporters, technicians and staff that are loosing their jobs. I wish them all well. (Management I don’t care so much about, because it was mostly their fault the station is closing) Thanks Ellis for this post. WCBS was a great station.
@EllisFeaster2 ай бұрын
@@jeff11030 Glad you enjoyed it!
@wmbrown62 ай бұрын
Ms. Quinn actually had three runs with WCBS (her second was just before her 2014-2022 run with 1010 WINS, where initially she succeeded Judy DeAngelis as the bottom-of-the-hour AM drive anchor, before essentially being "traded" in '22 to 'CBS for Lynda Lopez who then became a WINS anchor). There were quite a few who worked at both WCBS and WINS, besides Ms. Quinn and Ms. Lopez - Allen Shaw, Palmer Payne, Ralph Howard, Wayne Cabot (he was at WINS briefly before beginning his long career with WCBS), Paul Murnane (another brief WINS'er who went much farther and longer at WCBS), Brian Madden, Maria Garcia - oh yes, and Lou Adler. (WINS even boasted at least one ex-WABC anchor from their Musicradio 77 heyday, John Meagher, the last 15 years of whose career was spent at 1010; plus a few WNBC alums - Doug O'Brien, Catherine Smith, and more recently a voice from 1010's Top 40 past - Mitch Lebe.) In the 1970's and '80's, you could also tell which station you were on by the teletype sound effect. WINS's sounded a bit muffled and muddy audio-wise; WCBS's was recorded up-close, apparently in the section of the teletype room where there were three Model 28 KSR's in a corner (as confirmed in a photo I saw). Having seen differing models in action on various KZbin videos, it does seem WCBS's teletype sound was derived from the 28 - whose sound was decidedly different from the workhorse Model 15's. Its "light as air" sound bespoke an elegance and class as befitting CBS's "Tiffany Network" status and reputation. Among their advertisers, besides Gramercy Park Clothes and Carvel Ice Cream, who remembers the late night ads for Mickey Rooney's Tabas Hotel in Downingtown, PA on WCBS? And does anyone know whether or not, in the late 1960's in the overnights, WCBS aired Denison Clothes ads, as WABC 77 had?
@jeff110302 ай бұрын
Yes, you are correct. Don’t forget Sandi Klein from NBC’s WYNY that also spent years at WINS
@wmbrown62 ай бұрын
@@jeff11030 - Ms. Klein wasn't the only WYNY alum who did time on WINS. So, more briefly, did Don Rollins.
@jeff110302 ай бұрын
I didn’t know about Don Rollins at WINS. Thanks for letting me know. I only remember Don doing business reports overnights on WCBS AM. Radio can be a small world.
@Charles-k9y3u2 ай бұрын
As a kid growing up in Norther New Jersey my first introduction to CBS radio was listening to Reid Collins who also happened to live in my town which made it more special.
@jeff110302 ай бұрын
Willard Scott, TODAY SHOW’s former weatherman loved Reid Collin’s.
@EarlHonaker2 ай бұрын
The best station on the radio 😢
@Miss_Chick2 ай бұрын
Terrible loss. 😢
@raymondkb2nzo7882 ай бұрын
It was so very important to driver's.
@roadsailor12212 ай бұрын
I would listrn to 88 on my shortwave radio from my dorm room in west virginia at night i loved the jingles and sports keeping up with the rangers and mets
@NerdNest832 ай бұрын
Probably the biggest change to radio in New York since WNBC went of the air in 1988 and became WFAN. Now the only AM radio station with the same call letters as a TV station is WABC.
@willgilbert19692 ай бұрын
It's a loss to those of us who love radio and to New York City. It's a shame these giant companies are killing radio one station at a time. All corporate greed.
@sheafan19712 ай бұрын
At 53 yo I remember hearing WCBS 880 in the car with my father when we lived in Brooklyn
@user-dh4mi6ir2m2 ай бұрын
Always good advice. 4:18
@wmbrown62 ай бұрын
How long did WCBS have their four tones at the *bottom* of the hour? We know they were on the top for years.
@ekop17782 ай бұрын
WE DONT NEED MORE SPORTS ON AM THERES LIKE DOZENS
@sldl042 ай бұрын
It's all about the money, but I agree. The market is oversaturated with sports radio.
@opticscolossalandepicvideo48792 ай бұрын
Wcbs died and so did Philly Donahue
@wmbrown62 ай бұрын
Here's another irony: Phil Donahue's show debuted the same year (1967) WCBS Newsradio 88 did.
@MinifigNewsguy2 ай бұрын
I believe this was recorded in 2005 because that’s when I found this.