💬 Opinion May 17, 2026 · Greg Maresca

CBS Radio News Signs Off

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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 int

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