As my listeners may know, I left WCBS Newsradio 88 in November 2022, after the privilege of having broadcast on the iconic and historic station for 18 years. Working at WCBS had special meaning for me as I had grown up listening to the station.

On August 26, 2024, Audacy, the parent company of WCBS, shut the station down, ending its 57-year run as an all-news station in New York, and ending the station’s history just weeks shy of its 100th anniversary. As the flagship station of the CBS Network, the station carried the broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow from Europe during World War II and broadcast the CBS World News Roundup with Douglas Edwards. It served as the platform for countless other legendary broadcasters.

Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes, who I had the pleasure of interviewing twice during my career, on one occasion, upon seeing my WCBS microphone flag, exclaimed, “WCBS, where it all began.”

Audacy, which bought all of CBS’s radio stations in 2018, is in the midst of a bankruptcy reorganization.

My former colleague, Wayne Cabot, had the sad task of signing the station off the air and reading this incomplete list of names of those who had broadcast on the station over the decades. I was proud to be included in the list.

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