What a brilliant team of top-notch, first-class radio journalists. Not only did my parents listen to WCBS 880 AM when I was a kid, but these people became my family on 9/11. Thank you for the fantastic, in-depth coverage you provided to the NY, NJ, and CT area for so many years. What a loss to all of us that WCBS 880 AM isn’t with us anymore. Your excellence will live on in our hearts and minds.
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This episode was a load of fun right from the start. It was so much fun to hear the stories each guest shared and I learned that whoever had the great fortune to work at WCBS was incredibly lucky. I loved hearing about the camaraderie that they all shared. My special thanks to each guest and to you, Jim, for bringing them to Loveity Hall this evening.
Jim, I found this totally by accident and am delighted that it happened! As an avid listener to WCBS for many years, how great it is to see these people who are the voices of news and information. In the weeks following the sign-off of this iconic station, I still miss each and every one of the anchors and reporters that were familiar to me. Having no other outlet except 1010WINS now to depend on, the absence of WCBS is glaring on the radio dial. Kudos to you for packaging this and offering it to fans and NYers like me. WCBS is and always will be sadly missed. I don't understand, as a loyal listener, why Audacy made NO attempt to move them to FM if that was even possible. More so, to keep the station operational as a streaming service. I am sure their audience would have found them, tuned in and listened and never missed a beat. I know I would have. These talents are as familiar to me as the voices of my own family. I hope they ALL resurface here in NYC.
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What an incredible gathering of talented and masterful (pun intended) WCBS legends. Aside from the stories, their voices just bring back so much nostalgia and comfort. Our days are truly not the same without them, and the importance of having informative radio can never be lost. Hopefully, someone will figure out a way to bring back an all-news station that has the elegance and caliber of broadcast journalism that we saw with WCBS news radio 88/880. Although this may be a simplistic view, I bet if enough of us put our heads together, we can figure out how to do it. I miss you all immensely.
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What an awesome show with all guests from WCBS. So many wonderful stories and memories. A very special episode. Loved all the photos they shared. Thanks for putting this together Jim. And thanks to all your special guests for being here.
My fondest memory was waking up one morning, Jim Donnelly and Robert Vaughan were celebrating Jim's bday in the midst of the newscast. After Craig Allen, did the weather forecast, Bob asked him (Craig), pointing at Jim "Be honest does he (Jim) look 34?"
Sounds to me like Mr. Donnelly had an effect on two of his co-anchors. When Lou Adler started co-anchoring with him, he was clean-shaven, but within a year or two had grown a beard. Same with Robert Vaughn: He had a prominent moustache at the point he and Donnelly began anchoring together after Adler left in 1981 to become news director and morning anchor at WOR 710, but by the time Vaughn retired in 1988 he too had grown a beard.
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Speaking of missing - I miss that "behind-the-scenes" video of your anchoring on WINS. Though no longer applicable today, it is a time capsule as to how things were there then (as a radio geek myself, a la Mr. Cabot). I also saw your remarks on a certain message board about their direction today. A shame the news director took "The Daily Show" route in terms of the "tone" used by its anchors, especially in the key drive times, basically turning what is now the only all-news station in the city into the equivalent of Comedy Central. This makes WCBS's demise even more egregious and sacrilegious. (Especially with what's in the news now.)
@@tishtashtishtash - WINS' news director, Ben Mevorach, has openly admitted that he has been inspired by 'The Daily Show" in terms of the tone the anchors take, especially on AM and PM drive.
Bridgette Quinn was mentioned...she is going to be on WICC in Bridgeport doing a 12-2 program. But that's not the only big news about Park City's heritage station. In addition to 600 AM, WICC is now being heard in parts of Fairfield County, CT on 95.9 FM along with 107.3 FM. WICC along with AC WEBE 108, Hot AC Star 99.9 (WEZN), rock 99.1 PLR and Urban AC 94.3 WYBC operate out of Milford under the Connoisseur Media umbrella. And...CBS News airs at the top of the hour on WICC.
Ms. Quinn is one of a few who've done time on both 1010 WINS and WCBS Newsradio 88(0). Others over the years (whether on staff or part-time or freelance) included Spencer Ross, Brian Madden, Palmer Payne, Ralph Howard, Allen Shaw, Wayne Cabot, Paul Murnane, Maria Garcia, Bob Gibson, and Gordon Damer. Oh, and Lou Adler, near the tail end of his illustrious career. And, now, Mitch Lebe, as well as Lynda Lopez and Kevin Rincon (no relation to former WINS reporter/anchor Sonia Rincon). (Any names I missed?) (With Mr. Damer, it was especially ironic: After leaving WCBS, he went to ESPN radio. He and Larry Hardesty were let go just before ESPN took over the 880 dial.) And WICC: Oh, yes. That's the station that, from 1953 to 1960, had a UHF TV outlet on Channel 43 that literally no-one watched (and in spite of a young, long-before-"Hogan's-Heroes" Bob Crane being a staffer at one point).
Just a few days ago, Paul Murnane was heard on WINS in TOH PM drive, subbing for Larry Mullins. I heard scuttlebutt that he fit in like a glove. Plus, Tracy Johnke of Bloomberg is now doing "Bloomberg Money Watch" updates weeknights on WINS. And turns out I did miss one name heard on both WINS and WCBS: Cheryl Simone.
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I definitely grew up with the station, as my late mother had it on her radio much of the time. In fact, I even had, on my wall, a poster (derived from a 1974 two-page ad in New York magazine) of WCBS's schedule and postage-stamp size pics of the anchors they had at the time (such names and voices as Lou Adler, Jim Donnelly, Harvey Hauptman, Gary Maurer, Rita Sands, Pat Parson, Robert Vaughn, Bill Fahan, Bob Glenn and Palmer Payne). Don't know if it was the same as what Wayne spoke of in his growing up, but it was along those lines. I was definitely different from those in my age group for whom posters of, say, Donny Osmond, were more common in their bedroom. And as onetime producer, reporter and anchor Don Swaim put it in his appreciation site for the station, WCBS was as known, especially in the 1970's, for their ads for Carvel Ice Cream and Gramercy Park Clothes as for their reportage and all that passed through over their two-days-shy-of-57-year history. I myself remember, in the late nights in the '70's, ads for Mickey Rooney's Tabas Hotel in Downingtown, PA. I've oft wondered about their teletype sound (homemade, recorded in 1972 by their then-production technician and morning board technician, Charles Mascari). Barry Siegfried, who joined as engineer in 1975, said there were about 6 machines in their teletype room on the 16th floor of Black Rock (encased in glass); I wonder if the recording was made in a corner with a preponderance of Model 28's (such as in a photo of their "Weather Center" in 1979 where there were three Model 28 KSR's), as their sound was crisp, clean, precise, elegant, classy, and in keeping with the then-parent CBS network's "Tiffany" image. (Compared with 1010 WINS' in-house recorded sound which, in comparison, sounded almost muddy and muffled, and in any case by 1986 was replaced with a loop, edited in different ways at different points and derived from a famous sound effects album.) And I've heard vintage Teletype machines in operation on various TH-cam videos, and each one - Model 15, Model 14 reperforators, and Model 28 - all had a different sound to them. I know it was used up to 1986 on the air, behind their anchors (the master tape of that sound was dubbed every few years or so onto 10-minute carts played on a Gates Criterion). Sounds like somewhere out there, there's still a tape cart with that sound . . . being as Wayne brought it up again at different points in WCBS 880's final days, even within the last hour as he named all the various names of the past who were connected with WCBS.
As to Mr. Rooney's little venture - that was the later name. As of 1972, it was Mickey Rooney's Downingtown Inn. But whatever name, WCBS ran their ads in the late nights.
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Many are just now realizing there is a huge loss , especially when it comes to "Breaking News" with no WCBS880. Most of the stations out there do syndicated or bartered programming and on a weekend, not many are at a station ...much less break in for important news.
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What a brilliant team of top-notch, first-class radio journalists. Not only did my parents listen to WCBS 880 AM when I was a kid, but these people became my family on 9/11. Thank you for the fantastic, in-depth coverage you provided to the NY, NJ, and CT area for so many years. What a loss to all of us that WCBS 880 AM isn’t with us anymore. Your excellence will live on in our hearts and minds.
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I was late in, but while I got in - so interesting stories and memories they shared. So fun.
Thanks Jim.💚💖💚🎁🎉🎂🎊🇺🇲🇸🇪
This episode was a load of fun right from the start. It was so much fun to hear the stories each guest shared and I learned that whoever had the great fortune to work at WCBS was incredibly lucky. I loved hearing about the camaraderie that they all shared. My special thanks to each guest and to you, Jim, for bringing them to Loveity Hall this evening.
Jim, I found this totally by accident and am delighted that it happened! As an avid listener to WCBS for many years, how great it is to see these people who are the voices of news and information. In the weeks following the sign-off of this iconic station, I still miss each and every one of the anchors and reporters that were familiar to me. Having no other outlet except 1010WINS now to depend on, the absence of WCBS is glaring on the radio dial. Kudos to you for packaging this and offering it to fans and NYers like me. WCBS is and always will be sadly missed. I don't understand, as a loyal listener, why Audacy made NO attempt to move them to FM if that was even possible. More so, to keep the station operational as a streaming service. I am sure their audience would have found them, tuned in and listened and never missed a beat. I know I would have. These talents are as familiar to me as the voices of my own family. I hope they ALL resurface here in NYC.
A few have migrated to WINS since. But as you said, it ain't the same.
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Wow! What group of guests you had on tonight!! They sure miss radio jobs!!!❤
Thanks, Jim ❤
Thanks for watching and enjoying this tribute to one of the great radio stations!
Every one of these people should still be on air at NewsRadio 880. Of the two stations, they absolutely took the wrong one off the air.
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What an incredible gathering of talented and masterful (pun intended) WCBS legends. Aside from the stories, their voices just bring back so much nostalgia and comfort. Our days are truly not the same without them, and the importance of having informative radio can never be lost. Hopefully, someone will figure out a way to bring back an all-news station that has the elegance and caliber of broadcast journalism that we saw with WCBS news radio 88/880. Although this may be a simplistic view, I bet if enough of us put our heads together, we can figure out how to do it. I miss you all immensely.
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What an awesome show with all guests from WCBS. So many wonderful stories and memories. A very special episode. Loved all the photos they shared. Thanks for putting this together Jim. And thanks to all your special guests for being here.
Thank you very much Kathleen! We will all miss Newsradio 88 WCBS New York! A part of our lives for so many years!
My fondest memory was waking up one morning, Jim Donnelly and Robert Vaughan were celebrating Jim's bday in the midst of the newscast. After Craig Allen, did the weather forecast, Bob asked him (Craig), pointing at Jim "Be honest does he (Jim) look 34?"
Sounds to me like Mr. Donnelly had an effect on two of his co-anchors. When Lou Adler started co-anchoring with him, he was clean-shaven, but within a year or two had grown a beard. Same with Robert Vaughn: He had a prominent moustache at the point he and Donnelly began anchoring together after Adler left in 1981 to become news director and morning anchor at WOR 710, but by the time Vaughn retired in 1988 he too had grown a beard.
Well I guess a little fuzz during the morning rush hour never hurts 0:09 . Any idea if Neal Bush had any up there in the traffic watch helicopter?
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Jim, you’re doing God’s work here.
Thank your for your kind words!
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Bittersweet. Love 'em, miss 'em. And there is no replacement.
Speaking of missing - I miss that "behind-the-scenes" video of your anchoring on WINS. Though no longer applicable today, it is a time capsule as to how things were there then (as a radio geek myself, a la Mr. Cabot).
I also saw your remarks on a certain message board about their direction today. A shame the news director took "The Daily Show" route in terms of the "tone" used by its anchors, especially in the key drive times, basically turning what is now the only all-news station in the city into the equivalent of Comedy Central. This makes WCBS's demise even more egregious and sacrilegious. (Especially with what's in the news now.)
@@wmbrown6WINS is like The Daily Show? I don’t think this is true.
@@tishtashtishtash - WINS' news director, Ben Mevorach, has openly admitted that he has been inspired by 'The Daily Show" in terms of the tone the anchors take, especially on AM and PM drive.
@@wmbrown6 wow. Welp, that’s a travesty.
Absolutely Ted. I second that emotion!
Bridgette Quinn was mentioned...she is going to be on WICC in Bridgeport doing a 12-2 program. But that's not the only big news about Park City's heritage station. In addition to 600 AM, WICC is now being heard in parts of Fairfield County, CT on 95.9 FM along with 107.3 FM. WICC along with AC WEBE 108, Hot AC Star 99.9 (WEZN), rock 99.1 PLR and Urban AC 94.3 WYBC operate out of Milford under the Connoisseur Media umbrella. And...CBS News airs at the top of the hour on WICC.
Ms. Quinn is one of a few who've done time on both 1010 WINS and WCBS Newsradio 88(0). Others over the years (whether on staff or part-time or freelance) included Spencer Ross, Brian Madden, Palmer Payne, Ralph Howard, Allen Shaw, Wayne Cabot, Paul Murnane, Maria Garcia, Bob Gibson, and Gordon Damer. Oh, and Lou Adler, near the tail end of his illustrious career. And, now, Mitch Lebe, as well as Lynda Lopez and Kevin Rincon (no relation to former WINS reporter/anchor Sonia Rincon). (Any names I missed?)
(With Mr. Damer, it was especially ironic: After leaving WCBS, he went to ESPN radio. He and Larry Hardesty were let go just before ESPN took over the 880 dial.)
And WICC: Oh, yes. That's the station that, from 1953 to 1960, had a UHF TV outlet on Channel 43 that literally no-one watched (and in spite of a young, long-before-"Hogan's-Heroes" Bob Crane being a staffer at one point).
Just a few days ago, Paul Murnane was heard on WINS in TOH PM drive, subbing for Larry Mullins. I heard scuttlebutt that he fit in like a glove. Plus, Tracy Johnke of Bloomberg is now doing "Bloomberg Money Watch" updates weeknights on WINS.
And turns out I did miss one name heard on both WINS and WCBS: Cheryl Simone.
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That's right NEPatriot!
@@wmbrown6 Paul is a friend and he is now with 1010 WINS.
I definitely grew up with the station, as my late mother had it on her radio much of the time. In fact, I even had, on my wall, a poster (derived from a 1974 two-page ad in New York magazine) of WCBS's schedule and postage-stamp size pics of the anchors they had at the time (such names and voices as Lou Adler, Jim Donnelly, Harvey Hauptman, Gary Maurer, Rita Sands, Pat Parson, Robert Vaughn, Bill Fahan, Bob Glenn and Palmer Payne). Don't know if it was the same as what Wayne spoke of in his growing up, but it was along those lines. I was definitely different from those in my age group for whom posters of, say, Donny Osmond, were more common in their bedroom. And as onetime producer, reporter and anchor Don Swaim put it in his appreciation site for the station, WCBS was as known, especially in the 1970's, for their ads for Carvel Ice Cream and Gramercy Park Clothes as for their reportage and all that passed through over their two-days-shy-of-57-year history. I myself remember, in the late nights in the '70's, ads for Mickey Rooney's Tabas Hotel in Downingtown, PA.
I've oft wondered about their teletype sound (homemade, recorded in 1972 by their then-production technician and morning board technician, Charles Mascari). Barry Siegfried, who joined as engineer in 1975, said there were about 6 machines in their teletype room on the 16th floor of Black Rock (encased in glass); I wonder if the recording was made in a corner with a preponderance of Model 28's (such as in a photo of their "Weather Center" in 1979 where there were three Model 28 KSR's), as their sound was crisp, clean, precise, elegant, classy, and in keeping with the then-parent CBS network's "Tiffany" image. (Compared with 1010 WINS' in-house recorded sound which, in comparison, sounded almost muddy and muffled, and in any case by 1986 was replaced with a loop, edited in different ways at different points and derived from a famous sound effects album.) And I've heard vintage Teletype machines in operation on various TH-cam videos, and each one - Model 15, Model 14 reperforators, and Model 28 - all had a different sound to them. I know it was used up to 1986 on the air, behind their anchors (the master tape of that sound was dubbed every few years or so onto 10-minute carts played on a Gates Criterion). Sounds like somewhere out there, there's still a tape cart with that sound . . . being as Wayne brought it up again at different points in WCBS 880's final days, even within the last hour as he named all the various names of the past who were connected with WCBS.
As to Mr. Rooney's little venture - that was the later name. As of 1972, it was Mickey Rooney's Downingtown Inn. But whatever name, WCBS ran their ads in the late nights.
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Many are just now realizing there is a huge loss , especially when it comes to "Breaking News" with no WCBS880. Most of the stations out there do syndicated or bartered programming and on a weekend, not many are at a station ...much less break in for important news.
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Any updates regarding kyw newsradio and wpht that you can share
Any updates regarding the future of WPHT and kyw newsradio that you can share?
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Everyone is going to ask, will the election prompt changes at all of its audacy news and news talk stations across the country?
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