CBS Radio News signs off

WKOK will also continue to maintain its newsroom as one of the few independently owned news stations left in American radio. CBS is signing off, but the spirit of radio—that familiar and trusted voice in the background hasn’t gone anywhere;

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With the radio positioned above the refrigerator, WCBS Newsradio 88 was the soundtrack of our kitchen. For much of the 20th century, AM radio news was the country’s heartbeat.

CBS was the gold standard. It was the home of Edward R. Murrow’s rooftop broadcasts during World War II, Walter Cronkite’s war dispatches, and Eric Sevareid’s reports from a collapsing Paris that defined American news to the present.

Radio made a snowstorm, a blackout, a presidential address, a shared experience. The intimacy of a human voice cutting through static created a bond that television never replicated and digital platforms never attempted.

I recall helicopter traffic reporter Lou Timolat, calling live updates from the FDR and GWB to........

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