50 Years of News in New York

[@dfutterman5078]

No matter where I am driving in the United States I get them thru the internet streaming. I have been listening to them since the last 1970s and I will be 55

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I'm 61, and have had a place in my heart for them since my teens. Shame they'll be retiring the call letters and format in nine days. Here's wishing them the best in their new phase. Posting 8-17-24.

[@Trevor_Spinelli]

Damn.

[@cats0182]

WCBS goes back in time way before 1967. WCBS was NY's station for the Columbia Broadcasting System; may have been owned and operated. "CBS, the star's address". Home to Jack Benny, Arthur Godfrey and so many more icons.

[@wmbrown6]

They had the calls from Nov. 2, 1946 to Aug. 25, 2024. Before that they were the first WABC, years before the Cousin Brucie station at 77(0) which, until 1953, had been WJZ.

[@tomahawkseven]

Happy 50th News Radio 880! 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Wcbs 880,i miss the old crowded newsrooms and studios

[@masonresnick5105]

And now they're being shut down and being replaced by sports radio. Audacity sucks.

[@ekop1778]

BOB GIBSON AND WAYNE 1990-1999 GOOD TIMES ILL BE LISTENING TO 1010 WINS NOW DONT THEY HAVE OTHER SPORT STATIONS ON AM?

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Is Bob Gibson still alive? I well remember him on WCBS. He was also on WINS. I hope WINS will carry the hourly CBS News.

[@babajinde]

🎯

[@rhythmfield]

Audacy SUCKS and should be ashamed for dismantling one of the great New York City institutions that people rely on every day. This was a sh*tty maneuver, and I hope they pay dearly for this awful decision.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

I also like Sean Adams. I live in Massachustts and tune it in as soon as I’m in my car. And I’ve been doing it for many, many years. And I still have a portable radio in the bedroom that’s tuned to 880 AM!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

I like to listen to "World news Roundup" at 7pm ET. I listen to it on WCBS when they're not doing Mets games. I live in West Virginia, and at night, it comes in as clearly as if it's in the next room, except for when a Spanish-language station takes over the frequency.

[@wmbrown6]

Teletype Model 28's in that pic at 0:22? No wonder they sounded so smooth on that longtime audio loop used by WCBS from about late 1972 into the mid-'80's (and as of the early '80's, by WCAU Radio 121 in Philadelphia). 28's have a different sound to them than the older Model 15's. I suspected it was the Model 28's heard behind the likes of Adler, Donnelly, Parson, Farnsworth, Maurer, Sands, Hauptman, Vaughn, et al. in "Newsradio 88's" heyday.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Wasn't WINS the first all-news station? They went to a news format on April 19, 1965 (53 years ago yesterday).

[@wmbrown6]

On an ongoing basis in New York, yes. Before that there was WNUS in Chicago and XETRA in Los Angeles. But the first in New York, during the 1962-63 newspaper strike, was WABC-FM (later WPLJ), after that strike ended they went back to classical music and show tunes in certain parts of the day and simulcasting the AM on other parts.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

OK, thanks.

[@Harveycartoonlvr11]

At .30-32 I still remember in 1968...WBBM Newsradio 78 in Chicago also used that jingle music at the top of the hour when it first premiered! I miss it.

[@rhythmfield]

SHAME on horrible Audacy - may their stock value drop to pennies on the dollar, NEVER to recover - WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER sports radio station in NYC!

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Steve Porter, who started this clip, was later an NBC Radio correspondent. Congratulations, WCBS-AM on over 50 years of news coverage, and keep up the good work till the end of time!

[@wmbrown6]

He also inaugurated the all-news format at KYW in Philadelphia in September of 1965. He came from there to WCBS.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

OK, thanks. Sure do miss WCBS. Posting 10-15-24.

[@gsnfan]

It will all end on August 25th at Midnight

[@luislaplume8261]

This was the station my family listened to in the 1960s. When the news was straight not WOKE!

[@garrysaint-vil725]

🪦

[@alexkije]

Ten Ten WINS was all news at one time. Don't know about now though. I sure miss NBC's NIS. There really is NO USA all news network. Sheesh. We have left wing NPR for a couple hours in the afternoon. That's the closest it gets.

[@greggmitchell4173]

1010 WINS is still all news.

[@EdwardCaffrey22]

You can still listen to these stations via the internet. The Apps Tune-IN and Audacity. Clear your mind, Right Wing is Nazism, the Center is Fascism, while Corporate Democrats are Republicans.

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Since 1995 (September, I believe it was), WCBS and WINS have been sister stations. They complement each other, in that WINS tends more to local news, while WCBS is national- and world-oriented. Also, WINS is more "in your face" and appeals to blue-collar listeners, while WCBS is more sedate and highbrow. Both are damned good stations, and I wouldn't change them for anything, except I wish that WINS would have a network newscast at the top of the hour. Much success to both of them!

[@dfutterman5078]

U give us 22 minutes we’ll give you the world

[@rhythmfield]

@@TheBrooklynbodinewell said except: why are you wishing continuing good luck to WCBS News radio? They’ve been shut down 8/25/2024 by the worst national radio conglomerate in the world: Audacy. SHAME on you, Audacy executives!!!