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Pending FCC approval, the station’s call letters will change from WCBS to WHSQ-AM. WCBS-AM 880 has been an iconic New York brand, providing all-news coverage since 1967.
WCBS 880 AM, one of New York's leading news radio channels for nearly 60 years, will be replaced with ESPN New York on Aug. 26, as 1010 WINS becomes the main radio station for real-time news ...
Part-time WCBS meteorologist Todd Glickman, who filled in for Craig, was with the station from 1979 until 2024, when the station ended all-news programming. WCBS's promotional work was the inspiration for the title of the Fountains of Wayne album Traffic and Weather, according to an interview the New Jersey–based band gave to the station.
WCBS 880 radio will send its final transmission at midnight -- after 57 years of delivering breaking crime news, political happenings and subway delays to New Yorkers, many of whom now rely on apps.
A reassuring voice. WCBS was the station I heard in my dad's car, when he drove me to school in the Jersey suburbs. WCBS was the lullaby I listened to when I set my clock radio timer to "1 hr."
2000: WCBS leaves "Black Rock" for West 57th Street as part of a move to broadcasting using all-digital technology. Also around this time, the station begins referring to itself at Newsradio 880.
The move ends a 57-year run for 880 as New York's all-news radio station, and the end of the station's 96-year run as CBS Radio Network's flagship station, 78 of those years under the call sign WCBS. WCBS's remaining programming merged onto its sister station and erstwhile rival WINS beginning August 26. [23]
Today, CBS News Radio is best known for its news and public affairs programming distributed to more than 500 affiliates, including flagship station WCBS in New York (which ended their all-news format in August 2024 and is now known as WHSQ), [5] and several other all-news and news-talk stations.