[media death spiral] WCBS AM *ENDING* its all news format

[danny burstein]

(I'm on a limited connection so can't send you the press release)

https://x.com/OneJerseySchorr/status/1823004089871159458

[Louis Epstein]

Post by danny burstein
(I'm on a limited connection so can't send you the press release)
https://x.com/OneJerseySchorr/status/1823004089871159458

Oh God no.

This would also end its
"only radio station I ever listen to" status.

I want to turn on the radio and KNOW I will ONLY
hear news...I am mad enough when they interrupt it
with baseball games.

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

[Louis Epstein]

Post by Louis Epstein

Post by danny burstein
(I'm on a limited connection so can't send you the press release)
https://x.com/OneJerseySchorr/status/1823004089871159458

Oh God no.

*sigh*

This is really happening.
Turned it on this morning and they have a reminiscence show
with people who've worked there over decades...I remember back
when Douglas Edwards retired he was saying goodbye and chatting
with the then-regulars,but now it's EVERYONE who survives (some
calling in from distant retirement)...some I listened to early
on have died,but this is like goodbye to radio.

I was actually a Nielsen sweeps reporter for a week last year,
and I faithfully recorded my radio listening...WCBS sometimes,
nothing else ever.

Post by Louis Epstein
This would also end its
"only radio station I ever listen to" status.
I want to turn on the radio and KNOW I will ONLY
hear news...I am mad enough when they interrupt it
with baseball games.
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

[danny burstein]

In <va7kgj$r9a$***@reader1.panix.com> Louis Epstein <***@main.lekno.ws> writes:

[snip]

Post by Louis Epstein
I want to turn on the radio and KNOW I will ONLY
hear news...I am mad enough when they interrupt it
with baseball games.

obligatory misc news reminder:

Back when the (as it was called then) the Citicorp
Skyscraper was in danger of falling over in a strong
wind (yes, really, [a]), and plans were made for
a five block evacuation 'cuz Domino Effect, this
otherwise Big Story was mostly ignored because, as
it happened, most of the NYC newspapers were shut
down from a strike.

Which, amusingly enugh, was at the same time as both
NYC's radio news stations (Westinghouse Broadcasting,
serving NY, NJ, and CT, with all news, all the time)
were locked into hours and hours of base ball game
broadcasting, so they didn't have it, either..

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_crisis

[David Samuel Barr]

Post by danny burstein
[snip]

Post by Louis Epstein
I want to turn on the radio and KNOW I will ONLY
hear news...I am mad enough when they interrupt it
with baseball games.

Back when the (as it was called then) the Citicorp
Skyscraper was in danger of falling over in a strong
wind (yes, really, [a]), and plans were made for
a five block evacuation 'cuz Domino Effect, this
otherwise Big Story was mostly ignored because, as
it happened, most of the NYC newspapers were shut
down from a strike.
Which, amusingly enugh, was at the same time as both
NYC's radio news stations (Westinghouse Broadcasting,
serving NY, NJ, and CT, with all news, all the time)
were locked into hours and hours of base ball game
broadcasting, so they didn't have it, either..
[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_crisis

This "Big Story was mostly ignored" because it was
not made public until 1995. I actually started
a two-year stint at Price Waterhouse (36th-42nd
floors) in the Citicorp Center (never called
"Skyscraper") at the end of July 1978, as it turns
out right when the discovery of the problem was
being made, and there was never any disclosure to
the tenants of any such problem with the building
nor of any building or area evacuation plan.
Citicorp and the few people in the NYC government
who had been told kept what they knew under wraps
and (as is now known) repairs were done at night
in secret in August. Meantime, it was all business
as usual in the building; our biggest challenge was
dealing with the two-story elevator cabins.

[danny burstein]

In <***@earthlink.com> David Samuel Barr <***@mindspring.com> writes:

[snip]

Post by David Samuel Barr
This "Big Story was mostly ignored" because it was
not made public until 1995. I actually started
a two-year stint at Price Waterhouse (36th-42nd
floors) in the Citicorp Center (never called
"Skyscraper") at the end of July 1978, as it turns
out right when the discovery of the problem was
being made, i

Gotta disagree with it being kept "secret". I certainly
knew about it (did not work in the building or
anything else..) but then again I was a news junkie.

[Louis Epstein]

Post by Louis Epstein

Post by Louis Epstein

Post by danny burstein
(I'm on a limited connection so can't send you the press release)
https://x.com/OneJerseySchorr/status/1823004089871159458

Oh God no.

*sigh*
This is really happening.
Turned it on this morning and they have a reminiscence show
with people who've worked there over decades...I remember back
when Douglas Edwards retired he was saying goodbye and chatting
with the then-regulars,but now it's EVERYONE who survives (some
calling in from distant retirement)...some I listened to early
on have died,but this is like goodbye to radio.
I was actually a Nielsen sweeps reporter for a week last year,
and I faithfully recorded my radio listening...WCBS sometimes,
nothing else ever.

Post by Louis Epstein
This would also end its
"only radio station I ever listen to" status.
I want to turn on the radio and KNOW I will ONLY
hear news...I am mad enough when they interrupt it
with baseball games.

With WCBS gone my only-radio-station-listened-to accolade
goes to WINS (NY area's other all-news station that had
come under common ownership with WCBS long ago)...I retuned
my car radio,and in recent days set to retune my nightstand
radio (rarely used,I actually won it in a raffle as a child
in the 1960s and have used it in the 1970s...not sure I got
the dial to WINS (1010) but the digging unearthed my father's
(originally HIS father's) ninety-odd-year-old pocket watch,
which I had suspected was buried in the papers by the radio
over a decade ago,and a Team Twin Towers REBUILD pin,which
I thought was,like all my others,lost forever.

While my maternal grandfather's Omega watch stops and needs
cleaning every few years,my paternal grandfather's Illinois
runs fine when wound despite its very long inaction.

Post by Louis Epstein

Post by Louis Epstein
-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

[danny burstein]

In <vg8e8h$jeo$***@reader1.panix.com> Louis Epstein <***@main.lekno.ws> writes:

[snip]

Post by Louis Epstein
With WCBS gone my only-radio-station-listened-to accolade
goes to WINS (NY area's other all-news station that had
come under common ownership with WCBS long ago)...

"Westinghouse Broadcasting, serving New York, New Jersey,
and Connecticut with all news, all the time."

Post by Louis Epstein
I retuned my car radio,

(approx quote):
"Tune us in loud and clear, then pull out the center
button all the way, and puch it back in..."