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WCBS 880 is ending its run as an all-news radio station after nearly 60 years. It's the end of an era in local news in New York City.
WCBS 880 will end its run as an all-news station later this month, after serving as a trusted source of information in the New York region nearly 60 years.
WCBS 880 radio will send its final transmission at midnight -- after 57 years of delivering breaking crime news, political happenings and subway delays to New Yorkers, many of whom now rely on apps.
WCBS 880 has been an all-news broadcast since August 1967, when it pivoted from music and radio shows.Through decades of turmoil and upheaval in radio in New York and across the country, the ...
WCBS 880 hosts special program looking back before going off air 02:02. NEW YORK - There was a reunion on the radio Thursday, with familiar names and voices.
WCBS has offered an aural chronicle of New York since 1967, when it began its all-news format. ... 75, a retired public relations executive and longtime WCBS Newsradio 880 listener.
WCBS 880 AM switched from music and radio to an all-news format in August 1967. This year marked its 57th year on air as one of the two all-news format radio stations in tri-state area.
WCBS, News Radio 880 AM, has a deep history in New York City and the suburbs. News broke Monday that the station as it's been known will be no longer.
WCBS/880 AM will wrap 57 years as a beloved all-news New York broadcast institution Monday morning at 12:01, but those six eventful decades will first be celebrated in a three-hour "commemorative ...
To make sure it was set properly, he tuned to the radio station he knew best, WCBS 880. A visit to the station around age 14 became the pinnacle of his desire to join the broadcasting force.
(WCBS 880 has employed — as Cabot's morning co-anchor, Paul Murnane, said last week — "a cast of thousands" over the decades.) Later in his remarks, Cabot said, ...
WCBS 880's news team narrated history and chronicled change in the city over the course of more than 50 years. It first went on air as an all-news station in August 1967 -- way before the era of ...