WCBS AM 880 - Last Broadcast, Sign -Off - August 25, 2024, 1940 Zenith 8S463 Radio

we didn't hit the mark all of us here knew that our audience is engaged and smart and we need to treat our audience with the respect that a well informed well-educated news consumer deserves that's right deserves our News desert is getting bigger and drier just like we should get a second medical opinion we need to seek out more and more varied news sources that we trust because getting your information without the bias and brain watching in one place has given way to a fight to stay informed with each closing newspaper radio Newsroom TV Newsroom magazine and now even digital news operations the country we love is diminished so as we leave the news ecosystem after 57 years of all news and 100 years of service on New York radio we implore you to find that next trusted Source use it support it in word and deed it is the most patriotic thing you can do and the most satisfying to paraphrase a CBS News Legend good night and good luck you will asked why does this radio station mean so much why is the reaction the way it is and I really can't speak for others I can't speak for myself my parents split when I was 11 we split Christmas and when I was a b house he gave me a clock and this one had a beam at the top that shined the time onto the ceilling sub to the station I heard in the back of the car WCBS to make sure the time was exactly right and I listened and listened and before long I became hooked as a 12 13-year-old when I was 14 my dad drove me to the radio station in New York City during morning rush hour traffic and he introduced me to the place I'm now signing off in 2024 Ray Martell here's your last request Chris Alero Ben me Ivan Lee our Boston pushed for and got the authority to let us have our goodbyes to have a last show something very rare I thank them for that and I thank my dad for driving me into New York City in 1978 parents you never know what impact these random acts of love and attention may have on your children I'm Wayne Kevin and for the final time this is WCBS New York