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Artifacts, Pictures, Souvenirs
To contribute please email: Don Swaim
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HOWARD BARLOW ON THE AIR!
1930s matchbook cover extols the conductor of CBS's first network radio broadcast on September 18, 1927, via WOR, Newark, New Jersey. The network boasted 16 stations heard as far west as Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Story at AmericanHeritage.com
PARTY TIME! Todd Glickman sent this 1995 Newsradio88 party invitation.
CBS PROGRAMMING ON THE CHEAP
Before ABC existed as a radio (or TV) network, WCBS was WABC. No, not the later pop station with its top-40 DJs, now a burrow for far right-wing ranters. To learn about this anomaly go to The History of WCBS.
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On Sunday, Dec. 9, 1928, had you been listening to WCBS (then WABC at 860 on the dial), here's the program lineup as compiled by Eric N. Wilson. Note the amount of religious babble. Where was Howard Stern when he was needed?
WABC, New York, 860 (CBS)
10:50 AM: Church Services
3:00 PM: Symphonic Hour
4:00: Cathedral Hour (choral music w/ orchestra and soloists)
5:00: ABC of Religions
5:30: Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (sermon by Rev. Donald Grey Barnhouse)
6:00: Watchtower Program
7:05: Tucker's Orchestra
8:00: Randall Hargreaves
8:30: La Palina Program
9:00: The Majestic Theater of the Air (variety with Mack and Moran, The Two Black Crows, and MCed by Wendell Hall "the Red-Headed Music Maker." The first big sponsorship breakthrough for the CBS network.)
10:00: Audions
10:30: Come To the Fair
11:00: Musical Program
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 CBS Radio Network Ad 2/10/64
Ad in The New York Times 12/19/67
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CBS Radio Stations Ad 8/3/77
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CBS Radio News Ad I believe this newspaper ad dates to October 1973 after the start of the Yom Kippur War. If anyone can better date this ad please let me know.
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CBS Radio Stations Ad 12/14/64
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all CBS ad images courtesy Bob Gibson
ED JOYCE
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Ed Joyce was a producer-reporter at WCBS before becoming News Director, a duty shared with Marvin Friedman and Dick Reeves, when the station went all-news in 1967. Following CBS management tours in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, Joyce was the Number Two man to Van Gordon Sauter, CBS News President. After Sauter was deposed in 1983, Joyce held the post until his own ouster three years later. Joyce writes about his turbulent days with Sauter at CBS News in a memoir, Prime Times Bad Times (Doubleday 1988).
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 Ad in The New York Times, Nov. 14, 1963
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CENTER OF THE ACTION
WCBS NEWS PRODUCER'S DESK, MID-90s -- click to enlarge
Note the police, traffic, weather, and countless other radio monitors, mostly ignored in order to keep one's sanity. Gooseneck mike was used to holler at the anchor in the studio. BASYS computer monitor to the right. State-of-the-art compared to the just prior typewriter and teletype days. Many awards posted on back wall. During this period, technological adeptness began to replace journalistic knowledge, although nothing was digital yet as evidenced by the stacks of tape cartridges, usually one audio cut per cart. Don Swaim at the desk.
CBS KITSCHCool, oddly-shaped WCBS promotional umbrella that still keeps the rain off after a dozen years. Hey, they gave it away! |
NEWSRADIO 88 TOTE BAGS, 1980s
courtesy Mel Granick
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BEAR IN THE AIR Vermont Teddy Bear (the company was a sponsor) decked out in a pilot's uniform to commemorate Neil Bush's 25th year of helicopter flying for WCBS, 1967-1992. |
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CBS HAT COLLECTION
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WAKING UP BRANDED WCBS promotional card, 1970s. The first general manager of Newsradio88, Joseph Dembo, insisted WCBS was a News and Information station (because of its in depth feature reporting), to differentiate it from wire-fed, arch-rival WINS. Incredibly, both WCBS and WINS are now owned by the same company, Infinity (renamed CBS Radio), a division of Viacom. |
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BIG BILLBOARD Promotional postcard for WCBS, date unknown. Similar advertising was used in subway billboards. | |
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CLOCKING AND COMMUTING
Souvenir clock, given to the station's staff and sponsors on Newsradio 88's 25th anniversary.
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Nearly everyone on the news team, not to mention a few in administration and sales, had NYP plates on their cars which meant free street parking. Long after this plate had expired it was used as a car-window ice scraper (and still is).
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OLD FAITHFUL -- WITH A MIKE Original Sony portable tape recorder, microphone, and logo used by Newsradio88 reporters 1970s, 80s. To file tape from the field, reporters unscrewed either the mouth or earpiece of the phone, attached alligator clips to the output connections in the phone, plugged the cable into the Sony's earphone jack, and sent their audio.
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SAFETY FIRST WCBS outdoor safety vest. Most likely passed out in conjunction with some on-air promotion. They were made of cheap plastic, but mine lasted for years, and if they helped to save some lives that's a good thing. |
SCARF, SWEATBANDS, COFFEE MUG
collection of giveaway stuff
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