WNBC Radio sign-off on WCBS-TV
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- On October 7, 1988 at 5:30PM, WNBC radio in New York signed off for the last time. This is how WCBS-TV/channel 2 covered the news on their 5PM show that day. Reported by Jane Velez-Mitchell.
Who is here after WCBS 880's sign off in August 2024??
I am. . .and I just found out wnbc went off the air too only I'm like realizing this 36 years late.
Yes!
God, this brings me back.
RIP Frank Field 1923-2023. Died at age 100 on July 1.
I remember watching Jim Jenson on Ch 2 when I lived in New Haven, CT many, many years ago.
WNBC back in the late 70s, early 80s introduced me to disco, the Beatles, all that stuff as a kid raised in Connecticut.
Glad to see Bruce Morrow aka Cousin Brucie to us all New Yorkers going back to the 1960s Mad Men era of music radio. I am a New Yorker.
My childhood is calling me back
This year should have been 97 years thanks for the memories
Jim Jensen was my grandfather
Coolness sweetheart
No one cares
RIP WNBC(AM) (1922-1988)
The classic sound of AM music radio continues on WLNG 92.1 FM and streaming on the web.
Nothing to say but a shameless plug?
Wow, I remember listening to imus in the morning on WNBC 660 AM.
cooool...one of my fave nyc newscasters since i was a kid...
I remember watching this
Bill Cullen died two years after WNBC 660 did. But I know what was meant by "NBC started to focus only on television back in the early 70s," as it was 1972 (I think) that NBC sold WKYC-AM and FM in Cleveland, thus getting out of the radio business in that city.
I remember when WNBC was WRCA. (Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOLOL).
Jim was excellent. He played on The WCBS Softball team . He pitched he was good..i played against him. The birth of WFAN who knew it would be a great success.
AM music stations were dropping like flies during this period. Every city had a story like this.
I saw that guy jim jensen at my high school back in the day like in 93 or 94 he came to speak about something i forgot what it was but r.i.p.
Ever since WNBC changed it's call letters and format to WFAN,the station has never been the same. WNBC had more status and basically did for more than six decades. I listened to WNBC and really liked it. Now,I very seldom listen to WFAN. Like I said,the radio station has never been the same since the switch.
It has been better since the switch you dope
You don't enjoy listening to a bunch of halfwits and morons talking about sports? And that's just the hosts
When Jim Jenson dominated the news ratings.
Jane Velez-Mitchell is basically Nancy Grace-lite now.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
RIP Alan Colmes
2:01 - Boy, do I remember those rat hole offices all too well.
Timecode 2:54, North Mankato, Minnesota has both radio & Television Transmissions Radio: Hot 96.7 FM KDOG-FM. TV: KEYC News 12 ch.12 KEYC-TV
Screw talk radio bring back the music
I second that, and may God go with you.
Well at least WABC-AM 770 brought back the music though on weekends only. On Saturdays from 5PM to 12 Midnight and on Sundays from 5PM to 9PM
The Day The Music Died...again.
This time on 660 WNBC.
1:20 Wonder if anyone recorded the interviews with the other DJs to a cassette. It'd be great to hear the whole thing.
Wow, lots of familiar names and faces. Jane looked very hot back then.
1:24 Bill Cullen really got demoted by the WCBS byline by this time
Also after GE bought RCA and NBC in 1986, FCC rules at the time did not allow a new owner to keep both a radio and TV station in the same market. ABC sold its radio division to Citadel and WABC still exists. NBC should've done the same. I personally think NBC should create a new radio division, maybe get into satellite radio.
Radio is done, other then news and sports.
If I recall NBC Radio brand did go to Westwood One, and was used as a brand on-again-off-again. Now (it's off-again at Westwood One) it is also licensed to iHeartMedia for news, sports, and other things. Still, CBS is the only one of the big three that survived as a radio network to this day.
It's not that it won't allow a new owner to cross-own. The FCC didn't allow companies like GE (primarily an electric company) to cross-own radio stations.
Even without that rule, GE wasn't interested from radio ownership (it sold WJIB-FM/WBQT to NBC in 1983), and NBC was already slowly exiting the radio business (selling off WKYC/WTAM radio in 1972 and it officially began with the sale of WRC/WWRC/WTEM in 1984). GE didn't see radio (as well as the rest of RCA) to be important to their bottom line and sold everything except NBC-TV
Still, it's sad because the 4 big names in radio: Mutual, NBC, ABC, CBS, are no longer the way they were: broadcast networks for the public good.
Why, yeah, now that you mention it . . .
WNNNNNNNNBC
Howard Stern a comical genius alongside Bruce aka Cousin Brucie Morrow lol this aired 2 days after my boos Mom and a day after my mom's birthday 🎂🎉
Screw WFAN, WNBC was da best!
Cousin Brucie, wow
Jim Jensen was the best!
Copy that. (I met him).
Allowing those call letters to disappear was totally irresponsible‼️However, I wouldn’t expect any better from it’s owner, General Electric. Truly a sad day in radio history.
My uncle worked in the same building with jim jenson;
He said when he got into an elevator, he'd reek of alcohol
They could have just put WNBC on 1050 KHz. Smh
Crusty the PBS Kid it wouldn't have mattered, NBC's (then) parent company got rid of the radio division, so it couldn't have gone anywhere. The only way this could have been avoided, was if they sold the NBC radio division to another company, or GE kept it
WNBC 660 AM
Just as Musicradio 77 WABC signed off the air for good on Monday, May 10, 1982, 660 AM on your radio dial also don't mean music since Friday, October 7, 1988.. I AM A SIRIUS XM LIFER!
Stern got his REVENGE!!!
In This Clip, From 3:12 To 3:17, It Was WCBS-TV's Channel 2 News At 5 Video Close From Friday Evening, October 7, 1988.
@bobandrayfan1 I couldn't agree more. Radio plain sucks now. All syndicated voice tracked garbage with no local or live talent save for the big cities during the AM and PM drive. It's really sad what has happened to radio over the last 30 years.
"Goodbye farewell & amen am 660 wnbc-radio we will miss you".
In This Clip, From 0:00 To 0:23, It Was WCBS-TV's Channel 2 News At 5 Video Open And Video Bumper From Friday Evening, October 7, 1988.
Proffits thats all thats important today.How much more are they making today?
no it's not
Profits
If you ask me, this was idiocy. At the time WNBC was the top radio station in the country. Then they decide to stop it from broadcasting and down went radio from there.
That's where satellite radio is far superior. I personally think NBC can create a new radio division. If the rules on ownership have been relaxed, maybe there can be a new WNBC, but they probably wouldn't be able to buy back the 660 frequency from WFAN. They would need to buy another station with a new frequency or create a new one. There's no 990 AM in NYC. So the new WNBC-AM could be on 990, to keep with the tradition(WABC on 770 and WCBS on 880).
Jim Jensen was great - this is when news was real and anchors had an opinion now it's a corporate shut up. Disgrace - WNBC was great. When America was America
Jim Jensen was CBS Channel 2 New York City, actually. Yes, assuredly, though... Jim Jensen's CBS 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. reports were class productions, setting a benchmark standard. News shows now don't generally compare.
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I believe, btw, that the date here was after the embarrassment of Mr. Jensen, when he admitted to heavy drinking on the air, and then took some time off...
@@JGLewis-jn2km Yes they do compare.
Shut the fuck up dude, stop being nostalgic, news is still real, anchors still have a opinion, tf are you talking about you dipshit? It is not "corporate shutup", and America still is america, maybe you should have used that noose they through out, the window, your stupidity is killing the country
I don’t miss Alan B Colmes (rip);
I DO MISS Jane Velez Mitchell.
Jane is quite a man.
Alan Combs is dead now too. Sigh.
Don’t they mean WNNNNNNNNNBC?