WNBC Radio sign-off on WNBC-TV
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- The October 7, 1988 signoff of WNBC radio, as covered LIVE by WNBC-TV on LIVE AT FIVE. Reports from Al Roker & Roger Grimsby. The TV station busted Grimsby's prerecorded package, as the final 2 seconds were counted down. Coverage continued with Al Roker at Shea Stadium, where a ceremonial switch was thrown marking the move of WFAN radio down the dial, from 1050 to 660.
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I remember watching channel 4 that day. It all connected, WNBC radio and WNBC-TV. Those words still stick in my head from Roger Grimsby.
This is where you find the 1929 NBC logo. Can't believe no-one ever commented about that yet.
"Good evening, I'm Roger Grimsby. Here now the news..."
RIP, Roger.
RIP John Donald "Don" Imus Jr. 7/23/1940-12/27/2019 IMUS IN THE MORNING ceased broadcast at WFAN in 2007 and went to WABC until 2015 when he moved to Texas from New York.
By 2022, WNBC would've hit the century mark
1926. 1922 Is BBC'S Birthday
@@jaycemacinnis2228 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC_(AM)
Hard to wrap one's mind around Roger Grimsby working at WNBC-TV. I will always and forever associate him with Bill Beutel and Channel 7.
RIP Don Pardo, Don Imus, Roger Grimsby and WNBC AM.
Now in WNBC heaven is John Donald "Don" Imus Jr. July 23,1940-December 27,2019. The booze finally caught up with him.
Another thing. Imus was (and maybe still is) a Yankee fan. When the Yankees were on WABC, he was on WFAN, now it's just the opposite. I have a tape from a 1982 WNBC broadcast, in which he said, "If I were at WABC, it'd still be MusicRadio.
The voice-over at the start of this newscast was of course, Don Pardo, best known as he off-camera announcer of "Saturday Night Live", but a 65-year veteran of NBC.
Pardo was actually the first to report the shooting of President Kennedy on NBC-TV in 1963, and anchored several bulletins until Chet Huntley, Frank McGee, and Bill Ryan were ready to take over in the news studio.
A very versatile person.
A West Coast "Radio City" for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was built in San Francisco in the early 1940s. It housed KPO-AM 680 (later KNBC-AM and still later KNBR-AM) and KGO-AM 810, the West Coast "flagship" NBC radio stations for the Red and Blue NBC networks. KGO-AM soon became an ABC radio station. The radio stations left that building long ago, but a very interesting mural remains: www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/tenderloin-san-francisco-december-11-2011.html The mural symbolizes the far reach of radio signals and how they tied together diverse cultures.
The late great Don Pardo doing the announcing, liked it when they showed him on camera at the mic on live at Five.
WFAN was one of the trailblazers of Sports Radio.
What the hell man! This is the first I'm hearing of this! You turn your head away for 26 years, and everything disappears!
wow u are preserving it for the next generation like me!
Yo ALAN COLMES!!!!!! HE JUST PASSED AWAY LIKE A MONTH AGO.
who did
it's closer that you'd think...
I remember when both the radio and television call letters were WRCA.
Don't figure out my age. LOLOLOLOL.
@tlance1: The calls remain the sole "ownership" of NBC, as long as WNBC-DT remains on the air. If I recall correctly, you still can't request a station's calls for use in another city on another service (AM or FM in this case) without the consent of the original holder. And NBC doesn't want the WNBC calls slapped on some cheap top 40 station in Oklahoma or something.
In today's world, Imus would have been fired right there in the parking lot, with his "Nazi" and "black people" remarks.
That's an ironic statement considering he did get fired for his remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
RIP Don Imus
al looks so different
WOR 710 AM band is now the oldest radio station in NYC since also being on since 1922. The first full time radios was KDKA Pittsburgh, PA. on November, 1920 for the Presidential and Congressional elections of that year and receiving telephone calls from election counting centers around the country.
R.I.P. Don Pardo The voice of WNBC AM, WNBC TV, & NBC's SNL.
+Vaughn Baskin ...and the original announcer of "Jeopardy."
Host Art Fleming would start every show with, "Thank you Don Pardo, thank friends, now, let's play Jeopardy."
@@Lafayette320 I met both Don Pardo and Art Fleming.
A few comments. First, I'd forgotten that John Tudor had pitched for the Dodgers (among several teams) till it was mentioned at 3:44. As I've said many, many times in the past, my favorite thing about WNBC was calling Big Jay Sorenson (overnights) on the Time Machine oldies show. I've lived in West Virginia all my life, and when I'd call Big Jay, he'd razz me for being a hillbilly. In later years he worked at WJRZ (New Jersey, I'm guessing in the NYC Metro Area), and he told me that New Yorkers got a kick out of my southern accent when he'd put me on the air with my requests. Wouldn't trade those days for being President!
WJRZ-FM, is a Jersey shore station. The studios are/were in Toms River, Ocean County.
Cleveland, Ohio connections:
Imus in the Morning was 1st on Cleveland's WGAR AM 1220.
Al Roker forecasted the weather on WKYC, an NBC O&O at the time. WNBC recruited him from there.
Judy DeAngelis nailed it.
jledonne8n8f Judy went to WINS and retired a few years ago.
Steven Hamburg - Judy still working on-air here in the NY market at 89.1 WFDU Fairleigh Dickinson University - Teaneck, NJ.
It was before game 3 of NLCS. Game was rained out and played next day in 39 degree weather.
The day real personality radio died. 66 years of broadcast excellence. R.I.P. 66 wNNNbc!
i often listened to this station.
It's still America's call letters, just on the television side.
Some former WNBC television personalities are joining the likes of Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams (NBC national news).
Also it is the first full time regular TV station in America since July 1, 1941. It was then known by the call letters WNBT TV. ch. 4 and is still ch 4 as of today.
Come Home To Channel 4!
+Marie K COME ON HOME!!
The weather for October 1988 will be Thunderstorms.
Because he was quite round in the middle at the time.
If WNBC(AM) wasn't bad enough to lose an uphill battle, it wouldn't have been so good to last 66 years!
@1:56 -- Actually, the call letters were changed to WEAF before they were changed to WNBC.
@godgundam10 Singing off in analog?
is al rooker from the weather channel
2:21 ding ding ding it's over
I heard part of this when I was in EAST GREENWICH.
oh, lol, i thought something was peculiar about this! it sounded like the narrator said "Jack Capity". and i never knew how different Sue Simmons looked back then. is she wearing contacts now cause i don't see her with glasses now.
at 5.30 pm on october 7th in 1988 it went off the air and silent forever.
I believe it was around the same time Viacom merged with CBS in 2000.
Firing of Howard Stern did in the station.
WNBC became WFAN WOW!''!!!!!!
He died in the summer of 1995 of lung cancer.
RIP Don Pardo
I can recieve WFAN in Crystal-Clear quality from Chicopee, Massachusetts in the car without DXing
Bring back WNBC-AM 660, we must start a campaign to bring it back!
Christopher Gagliardi: Good friggin' luck convincing NBC to buy the 660 license back from Entercom. And for far more money than what they got for it. But even then, what would NBC do with it? Not sure why Jack Welch sold it off in the first place, but sadly, it would probably hemorrhage money until it died again and NBC sold it...again. Do you know of any investors who would be willing to commit tens of millions of dollars to buy the license from Entercom since hell will most likely freeze over before NBC will drop that kind of money to get back a radio station they haven't owned in 30 years?
I agree with your comments. I just wonder how long terrestrial AM/FM radio has left though, having to wage war with iPod/iPhone web radios, satellite radios and mp3s?
Or maybe all the new tech stuff is actually helping generate revenue for the WFANs, WCBS & other stations. What do you guys think?
alan colmes and roger grimsby were the last voices on wnbc.
Roger Grimsby stayed on Channel 4 two years
The changeover must've taken place in time for the Mets' playoffs with the Dodgers that month.
It was in the middle of that series, yes. Which is why they were out at Shea. There was a game there that night.
I Think Is Carol Jenkins Wore Glasses Anyway?
after spending 10+ years in the 'net tv biz, i can say for sure that the broadcast networks are dying and cable/internet are rising.
surprised that the new owners didn't keep the legendary "WNBC call sign" and just swap the format. unless retiring the letters was part of the deal.
You're probably correct that retiring the callsign from the radio station was part of the deal. Beyond that, and I'm just guessing here, the WFAN brand, although only about 15 months old on their old 1050 frequency, was probably something that new owner Emmis wanted to continue with. Meanwhile, WNBC-TV, the television network's flagship, waited over 3 years before officially seeking FCC permission to use the "WNBC" callsign (without the "-TV suffix), as of June 1, 1992.
Al Roker with Don "Big Mouth" Imus.
OMG Jack Cafferty.
2:05 Jack Benny ?????
BABA BOOEY!
Well, I don't think GE will sell NBC. As a network, NBC may be struggling, but as a company, NBC is doing okay. All networks have their ups and downs. NBC will bounce back. They've done it before and they'll do it again.
Just an Update - GE sold NBC to comcast
this Jack Capity guy sounds like Jack Cafferty from CNN. anyway, the intro to this sounds nice! if anything, i bet WNBC was beter than WNBC radio! one reason is because you can see whats going on. and at 1:14 , its almost hard to hear the news correspondant.
Yes that is him
wEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENBC
meant it metaphorically. i worked on the 'net side there for 10 years and saw the erosion that made being there less attractive as time went on. ge won't shut the place down, they'd sell it first...
I like the way WNBC ended vs WHN
wnbc the only station you.ll ever need.
LOL 4:55 "what we've been doing", which is nothing
Who remembers WFAN replaced by WNBC
grimsby said you heard the countdown.it.s over.
George Steinbrenner ? Iman?? HES A NATZI LMAO funny laid back guy until he went to FOXnotBuisness
No hate, but Roker looks terrible in this old clip. He looks much better nowadays.
I'd prefer Roger Grimsby on WABC-TV instead of WNBC-Tv
Apparently, WABC-TV didn't. They fired him.
wnbc are still on-air
+Jowee Bondoc on TV 4, but not the radio station.
Yes. On TV4 but the radio is still owned by WNBC.
Foggy: no, the station at 660 AM is NOT "owned" by WNBC. It's now WFAN and has been for 30 years this October.
wannawatchu66 So who owns it?
@@theFoggyonYT Entercom, prior to them CBS radio.
it is permanantly off the air.
Goodbye WNBC
And ironically, Howard Stern outlived both Don Imus & WNBC. 📻
these were the slogans of wnbc.
@89990000 Roger Grimsby.
@atvrider7 Roger Grimsby
The way NBC is going right now, WNBC will sign off for good both analog and digital. NBC TV will follow NBC Radio and cease to exist.
Uhhh, no.
66 wnbc if we weren.t so bad we wouldn.t be so good.
I'm going to guess that you are a Libra.
@godgundam10 LOL
it was silenced forever.
Do you have proof that NBC is going to close down?
tv4 there be there!
Should've never fired Howard Stern.
double-u ENN-bee-cee.
To me radio is dead .
What a waste.....
Yeah, and Artie Lange had a little drug problem.
wnbc 660 am
wnbc is gonna make me rich.
This just in, WNBC-TV is singing off tonight at 6PM! WNBC-TV goes off the air forever tonight at will be replaced by WFAN-TV! New York's 24-hour sports TV station!
So is the NBC TV Peacock. WNBC-TV is probably headed for the same fate the way things are going.
I guess the scientific models placing the earth at the center of the universe is still true, and the sun still revolves around the earth. At least it was true for about 1,000 years….until it WASN’T!
why would somebody want wnbc back?it is not going to be back.not now not ever.
66 wnbc
Did WNBC Radio really die, or did they revive it later?!!!
In This Clip, From 0:02 To 0:39, It Was WNBC-TV's News 4 Live At 5 Video Open From 2 Video Bumpers From Friday Evening, October 7, 1988.
@jason24568 It was an April Fools Joke, albeit not a very good one. Yet the way things are going at WNBC-TV, it probably won't be long before that station goes off the air, too.