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I listened to the end, just heart breaking. Then the heart stopped beating, dead silence. A great loss.😢

It's just incredibly heartbreaking that New York City (nicknamed Radio City of course) lost 4 great radio stations in a span of over 3 and 1/2 decades, WHN, WNBC (both of which were dismantled by WFAN), WPLJ (pre-May 31, 2019, before the K-Love folks took over), and now WCBS. For THE Greatest City in the World and the top media market in the States to have to deal with this 4 times in that span is an absolute travesty.

ESPN is going down 👇... anyway...who cares about sports highlights...your can get those from your local TV station

WCBS is a New York stable.....Why change it to sports.....why change their historical call letters?.....it is unreal

They were so creative with the tones and they were using very old technology to make them.

NYC had two 24-hour all news stations until early this morning. Audacy should've left WCBS 880 as is moved ESPN radio to WINS-AM 1010; the latter has the more appropriate call for a sports talk station.

They cut in mid report... Jeez

4:18 - Gari Media’s _The Reporter_ or _CBS-AM Music Package_ or ABS-CBN’s theme

The teletype sound heard over Mr. Cabot's naming of all those who passed through WCBS over its long history of providing the news, and originally used by the station (and heard behind many of its anchors) from the latter part of 1972 until about 1987, sounds exactly like a bank of Model 28 KSR's (of which they had three in a corner of their teletype room, the section where that recording may've been made). As I've queried before in the comments sections of other clips, are there any plans anywhere to have that sound put up on its own as a token to remember "Newsradio 88" by, as Audacy had done on their website with KYW's teletype sound after they ditched it in 2020? And who'd've thought this self-confessed radio geek (I'm referring to Wayne now) would end up being the standard-bearer and torch carrier for the station in the same manner that Edward R. Murrow had been for electronic journalism? That's no mean feat or task, and he certainly proved his mettle in this way.

Thank you for this. Wanted to hear the final sign off but too late for me

I recorded the last 10 minutes of WCBS on my phone. Thank you Ellis for having the full 30 minutes and the flip.

Ugh.... listening to sports radio makes me want to vomit

Wayne Cabot---the silky, smooth voice of unbiassed news, on time and accurate. Glad he got to do the sign off.

Just like WCBS, WABC changed formats as John Lennon’s Imagine played in the background. The tears flow as another part of my childhood is taken away.

It's a shame that stations like wcbs had to go like that and how quickly they change the call letters too. It usually takes days or weeks for that to happen.

AM radio is almost finished here in the UK, only 2 national stations available, most local ones already switched off.

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Thank you for saving this, and everything else related to the final weekend. I was hoping someone would save these (as Audacy immediately pulled everything at the change of the clock). The end of this station brought tears to my eyes, and an ache in my heart. Your graciousness is much appreciated.

Sad to see WCBS go. Who needs another sports-talk station?

I stayed up to listen to it last night.

My six-year-old niece said you resemble "Uncle Remus" (context: we have an old VHS tape of a repeat of the Disney Song of the South among other 1980s tapes that we recently transferred to modern format). James Baskett (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baskett) was a good man and deserves a lot better than being a collateral posthumous victim of changing times.

I listened online last night. I used to work for CBS Radio as a jock for KLUV and KVIL-two radio stations Audacity has already destroyed. I cried for a few minutes when I heard WCBS was gone. Maybe it felt like when a surgeon loses a patient on the operating table. My last words were FUCK YOU Audacity! Goodbye WCBS..I wonder who is next, KRLD? WBBM, KNX or maybe KCBS.

Ellis --- This is a great post! Thank you. I'm very sad today about the passing of 880 WCBS. I'm also disappointed with the powers-that-be at ESPN. In 1982, 77 WABC transitioned from to talk with a final show by Ron Lundy and Dan Ingram. In 1988, 66 WNBC became WFAN, following a nice program and transition by Alan Colmes. In both cases, there was respect for the legacy of these AM O&Os. Not so with WCBS. As many of us heard, Wayne Cabot wrapped up a wonderful retrospective, to be followed by a minute or so of dead air, and an ESPN program already in progress. There was no acknowledment of WCBS by ESPN, no transition to the new programming. What a disappointment, and what disrespect to 880 WCBS and its legacy. They could have done better, and should have. Just my opinion .....

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What a run it was. A great run that will never be forgotten.

You said "Let's go back to the 1990s," yet this WCBS aircheck is from 1978, per your caption on this video.

The 2000s Traffic sound is the one I grew up on

Good Karma broadcasting changes WCBS news radio to ESPN radio. Sounds like BAD KARMA to me!

Mostly syndicated crap on ESPN radio. No real surprise that one of the 2 news stations in NY would go since Audacy owned WINS and WCBS. Radio is just about dead sadly.

I missed it last night but I'm glad 2 catch it now. WCBS NEWS RADIO 880 1967-2024

Thanks again, Mr. Feaster. I knew you'd come through with this...

What's a format chgange?

17:52 Already a bad omen with ESPN New York. Arizona did in fact swept the Sox this weekend. Problem was, they swept the RED SOX not the White Sox. Think that's a sign the greater good doesn't approve of this format flip.

4:14 - It was used on ABS-CBN as their News Patrol bed.

Thank you. I listened to this live. It was heartbreaking and then the transition to ESPN had all the pleasantness of a cold enema.

The final weekend of WCBS 880's schedule was mostly prerecorded. The last actual newscast on WCBS 880 was actually aired the preceding Friday evening.

So sad the day has arrived. Is this progress? 🤬 📻 Ellis, you've done a SURPURB job presenting the retrospective flashbacks! This is a 5 star exit!

Thank you. I listened to the final five minutes of it last night. I cherished this station

WCBS WHSQ 880 New York - Final Minutes of WCBS/ Launch of ESPN 880 - August 25 2024 - Radio Aircheck

ellis, is there any future for terrestrial radio? it's so sad, as it was my main source of entertainment during my childhood

Down the hall, some referred to the station as "useless one." I never did!

Like a death in the family.

Damn......I'm old.

Now KCBS 740 San Francisco, CA / KNX 1070 Los Angeles, CA / WBBM 780 Chicago, IL / KYW 1060 Philadelphia, PA & the rest of the CBS News AM stations across the USA will end & change to ESPN Radio with in the next few weeks. 98.7 FM in New York is also ESPN Radio & at the end of the month it will change format & WSHQ 880 ESPN Radio will also be on WCBS FM 101.1 HD 2 as well. -Cheers!

Listened to the end last night in my car radio in Clearwater Florida, time to take 880 out if the presets...

Thanks for posting this..will really miss listening to Levon at night

WCBS 88 was the Pan Am of radio. Great and now gone.😢

Thank you Ellis. This is a wonderful Eulogy. I have now grown to hate sports with everything in me. My cousins constantly ruin Thanksgiving day, they won't turn off the football game. And now it takes the place of an Icon. Yea, I'd rather hear a ball game then to know when a traffic jam will clear.

This is like a death in the family.

1967-2024 31:20 "Now a report on an electronic breakthrough. It's known as electronic video recording EVR. Will allow home television sets to playback motion pictures and other visual projections for the first time. Will become available early in 1969 in England and soon thereafter in the United States and elsewhere. It's expected to cost $280" (about $2600 today).