I learned by accident that WMAQ flipped from country to all-news. I was brushing my teeth preparing for bed, and I had the station on. I didn't hear any music for a long time till it dawned on me that they'd changed. This was early 1988.
Pat Cassidy,by the dawn's early early light. now on at WBBM.if WMAQ never would've switched over sports,i probably would still be listening to WMAQ,As I now switched over to WBBM.kinda surprised how clear the stations come in here in Milwaukee.
It's because, they're clear channel and 50,000 watts, and Chicago is relatively close to Milwaukee> I live in west Virginia, and can get them at night.
Posting on 1-22-21. Pat Cassidy is now on WBBM (780 AM) and WCFS (105.9); they simulcast. The voice is somewhat different after 25 years, but it is most certainly him.
@@patricklee4316 No, I'm from Fairmont, West Virginia, which is about 90 miles south of Pittsburgh. By the way I like how Pat Cassidy still says "by the dawn's early light."
NYC does have 2 all-news stations, namely WCBS(AM) and WINS. Interestingly, they're sister stations. WCBS is more into national and world news, while WINS focuses more on local news.
Posting at 9:01 am on 8-13-24. I saw the same thing online about 9 hours ago. While I wish 880 the best in its new life, I hope WINS picks up the hourly CBS News.
too bad that even in cities the size of Chicago and Los Angeles, there's not enough room for two 24-hour all-news stations. CBS tried it in DC with WNEW-FM but could not compete against WTOP. now WNEW runs talk and sports at night.
These sound like different packages between the jingle at 0:14 and the one for the top of the hour; the one at 14 seconds in sounds like CNN Headline News from the early 90s.
Before Westinghouse Bought CBS in the Summer of 95 Just Before Disney Bought ABC, Westinhouse's All News Radio Stations Were... KFWB 980: L..A. (1968-2014), Died a Slow Death, Thanks to its Step Brother, KNX 1070, Here in L.A.,KYW 1060:Philadelphia (1965-Present), Mostly CBS News radio now! WINS 1010: (1965-Present), Still Ticking, & Competing with its Step Brother CBS Station which Just Celebrated its 50th Anniversary in Late August... WCBS 880, WBZ 1030: Boston, Not Clear on When the News Format Began with that Station? WMAQ 670: Chicago (1922-2000), They Say All News 670 Wasn't that Great! It was All About WBBM 780, Which was King of Chicago Newsradio, I Got to Listen to the Station (670 WMAQ) when I Visited My Ex Hometown From L.A. in 94 & 2000, 5 & 1/2 Months Before CBS Switched it to the Current Sports Radio!
@@waynewright2886 WBZ start their all-news format (by day) a year or so after the former CBS-owned WEEI dropped theirs for sports in the 90s.. as the Boston Celtics had gotten hold of WEEI ... and the heiress of the Boston pizzeria chain Papa Gino's bought WEEI from CBS in the 80s. WBZ jumped at the chance to fill the void. But, even they knew you couldn't run it 24/7. WEEI wasn't all-news 24/7 either. The biz being crazy.. the all-sports WEEI is now under the same ownership again as WCBS. WBZ got spun off to iHeart as the merged Entercom with CBS Radio pushed them over the ownership cap and it needed to get rid of 4 stations.. WBZ Radio was one of them.
@@robertwelchny NOW I GET THE ANSWER WHY WBZ WAS SOLD OFF TO I-HEART. AS FOR THE ENTERCOM DEAL, ENTERCOM BOUGHT A QUIETLY BOUGHT A ROCK STATION FROM BONEVILLE BROADCASTING, KSWD, THE SOUND, 100.3, SOMETIMES LAST DECADE HERE IN L.A. LAST DECADE. THE HOLDUP WAS 100.3 THAT ENTERCOM OWNED, BECAUSE CBS RADIO L.A. OWNED 6 STATIONS. AM KNX 1070, ALL NEWS FM KCBS FM, 93.1, JACK FM 94.7 KTWV, THE WAVE 97.1 AMP RADIO 101.1 KRTH, K-EARTH 101 106.7 KROQ ENTERCOM WANTED TO KEEP ALL OF CBS'S RADIO STATIONS HERE IN L.A. & KSWD, THE SOUND 100.3 WAS THE FALL GUY & SOLD OFF TO A RELIGIOUS BROADCASTER WHICH FUMED SOUND LISTENERS & NOW JUST LEFT THEM WITH 95.5 KLOS, WHICH WAS ORGINALLY OWNED BY DISNEY, BUT SOLD OFF IN 03 OR 04 TO CITIDAL BROADCASTING, IN WHICH CUMULUS BROADCASTING TOOK OVER & MISMANAGED THE COMPANY & PUT THEM IN DEBT & HAD TO SELL STATIONS , KLOS GOT SOLD OFF TO MERCADO BROADCASTING & STILL PLAYING THE ROCK FORMAT. FORMER SISTER STATION KABC 790 TALK RADIO THEY STILL OWNED, BUT SOLD OFF SISTER STATIONS WABC 770 AM TO A BILLIONARE & WPLJ FM 95 WAS SOLD OFF TO THE SAME RELIGIOUS THAT BOUGHT L.A.'S 100.3. RADIO JUST AIN'T THE SAME ANYMORE IN AMERICA!2
@@waynewright2886 I liked WMAQ from 1979-88 (the country era, though that period started in '75). WHN (1050 NYC) from 1979-87 is my favorite station of all time.
Couldn't Radio.com move 670 The Score up to 780 AM and sell the 670 AM frequency to iHeart Media so that WMAQ can be restored as an all-news radio station, like it was meant to be? Besides, WBBM already has its all-news presence predominantly on the FM dial at 105.9. As before, WMAQ would be a full-fledged NBC News Radio affiliate. The JAM custom ID jingle should be kept intact, as it was heard in the 1990s, but added with "...an iHeart Media station" to the legal ID.
You're right. What I'd like to see, myself, is WNBC (660, NYC) come back. The current occupant of the frequency is WFAN, sister station to WCBS and WINS. For music, I'd like them to be oldies, and they could still be the Yankees' and possibly the Giants/or the Brooklyn Nets flagship. Not gonna happen, of course, but, as a very old song goes "I Can Dream, Can't I?"
NBC's midwestern hub for over 60 years, sold in 1987 as GE dismembered NBC Radio. Westinghouse, which first started KYW in Chicago, moved it to Philadelphia, then Cleveland, and back to Philly again, ended up with 'MAQ and, after a merger with CBS, had to dispose of WIND to keep it. CBS/Westinghouse decided two 50kw I-A blowtorches shouldn't compete for news, so 670 went sports. In New York, 880/WCBS and 1010/WINS are also part of the CBS/Westinghouse package, but agreed to keep the stations' operations separate. Whether new owner Entercom will continue those arrangements, time will tell.
Viacom owned WSCR 1160, when they bought CBS-Westinghouse, the merged company couldn’t keep 670, 780 and 1160, and they wanted to keep WSCR’s intellectual property.
One thing (maybe the only thing) to their credit is they were the Cubs' flagship in 2016, when they finally won it all. I guess they still are, assuming any MLB is played this year.
I learned by accident that WMAQ flipped from country to all-news. I was brushing my teeth preparing for bed, and I had the station on. I didn't hear any music for a long time till it dawned on me that they'd changed. This was early 1988.
I miss hearing that at night on the transistor radio under my pillow!
Ypi and me both
25 years ago today i was about 13 years old in elementary school at that Time.
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Pat Cassidy,by the dawn's early early light. now on at WBBM.if WMAQ never would've switched over sports,i probably would still be listening to WMAQ,As I now switched over to WBBM.kinda surprised how clear the stations come in here in Milwaukee.
That's how pat Cassidy open each morning
It's because, they're clear channel and 50,000 watts, and Chicago is relatively close to Milwaukee> I live in west Virginia, and can get them at night.
He just retired a few months ago - a really, really nice guy - I worked with him some when I was a newswriter at WBBM in the early 2000's
@@mksaelens i listened to that last brodcast he did,well the end of it that day
WMAQ used to come in crystal clear in Ohio when I was a kid.
Posting on 1-22-21. Pat Cassidy is now on WBBM (780 AM) and WCFS (105.9); they simulcast. The voice is somewhat different after 25 years, but it is most certainly him.
I think it pretty much sounds the same
@@patricklee4316 Yeah, pretty much, I must agree.
I live in West Virginia, but listen to WBBM (780 AM and 105.9 FM) online, several times a day.
@@TheBrooklynbodine are you from the Chicago area?
@@patricklee4316 No, I'm from Fairmont, West Virginia, which is about 90 miles south of Pittsburgh. By the way I like how Pat Cassidy still says "by the dawn's early light."
wmaq 1922-2000 gone but not forgotten
A-MEN!
NYC does have 2 all-news stations, namely WCBS(AM) and WINS. Interestingly, they're sister stations. WCBS is more into national and world news, while WINS focuses more on local news.
It was just announced that WCBS(AM) is going to be leased to the Karmazin family & will go sports.
Posting at 9:01 am on 8-13-24. I saw the same thing online about 9 hours ago. While I wish 880 the best in its new life, I hope WINS picks up the hourly CBS News.
Audacy has been leasing WXYT in Detroit (The Lone Ranger Station as WXYZ) to a Black group with a sports talk format.
Didn't know about Audacy leasing WXYT, but I do know that they were originally WXYZ and that they were the flagship station for the Lone Ranger.
too bad that even in cities the size of Chicago and Los Angeles, there's not enough room for two 24-hour all-news stations. CBS tried it in DC with WNEW-FM but could not compete against WTOP. now WNEW runs talk and sports at night.
Chicago has WBBM and WGN as news and talk
Best news radio jingle package ever.
These sound like different packages between the jingle at 0:14 and the one for the top of the hour; the one at 14 seconds in sounds like CNN Headline News from the early 90s.
Funny how several stations' jingles used the same little tune for the word "Chicago." WLS was another one.
They must've been associated with 1010 WINS in New York.
"Give us 22 minutes; we'll give you the world."
They were co-owned by Westinghouse. They still are, only 670 is now WSCR.
Before Westinghouse Bought CBS in the Summer of 95 Just Before Disney Bought ABC, Westinhouse's All News Radio Stations Were... KFWB 980: L..A. (1968-2014), Died a Slow Death, Thanks to its Step Brother, KNX 1070, Here in L.A.,KYW 1060:Philadelphia (1965-Present), Mostly CBS News radio now! WINS 1010: (1965-Present), Still Ticking, & Competing with its Step Brother CBS Station which Just Celebrated its 50th Anniversary in Late August... WCBS 880, WBZ 1030: Boston, Not Clear on When the News Format Began with that Station? WMAQ 670: Chicago (1922-2000), They Say All News 670 Wasn't that Great! It was All About WBBM 780, Which was King of Chicago Newsradio, I Got to Listen to the Station (670 WMAQ) when I Visited My Ex Hometown From L.A. in 94 & 2000, 5 & 1/2 Months Before CBS Switched it to the Current Sports Radio!
@@waynewright2886 WBZ start their all-news format (by day) a year or so after the former CBS-owned WEEI dropped theirs for sports in the 90s.. as the Boston Celtics had gotten hold of WEEI ... and the heiress of the Boston pizzeria chain Papa Gino's bought WEEI from CBS in the 80s. WBZ jumped at the chance to fill the void. But, even they knew you couldn't run it 24/7. WEEI wasn't all-news 24/7 either. The biz being crazy.. the all-sports WEEI is now under the same ownership again as WCBS. WBZ got spun off to iHeart as the merged Entercom with CBS Radio pushed them over the ownership cap and it needed to get rid of 4 stations.. WBZ Radio was one of them.
@@robertwelchny NOW I GET THE ANSWER WHY WBZ WAS SOLD OFF TO I-HEART.
AS FOR THE ENTERCOM DEAL, ENTERCOM BOUGHT A QUIETLY BOUGHT A ROCK STATION FROM BONEVILLE BROADCASTING, KSWD, THE SOUND, 100.3, SOMETIMES LAST DECADE HERE IN L.A. LAST DECADE.
THE HOLDUP WAS 100.3 THAT ENTERCOM OWNED, BECAUSE CBS RADIO L.A. OWNED 6 STATIONS.
AM
KNX 1070, ALL NEWS
FM
KCBS FM, 93.1, JACK FM
94.7 KTWV, THE WAVE
97.1 AMP RADIO
101.1 KRTH, K-EARTH 101
106.7 KROQ
ENTERCOM WANTED TO KEEP ALL OF CBS'S RADIO STATIONS HERE IN L.A. & KSWD, THE SOUND 100.3 WAS THE FALL GUY & SOLD OFF TO A RELIGIOUS BROADCASTER WHICH FUMED SOUND LISTENERS & NOW JUST LEFT THEM WITH 95.5 KLOS, WHICH WAS ORGINALLY OWNED BY DISNEY, BUT SOLD OFF IN 03 OR 04 TO CITIDAL BROADCASTING, IN WHICH CUMULUS BROADCASTING TOOK OVER & MISMANAGED THE COMPANY & PUT THEM IN DEBT & HAD TO SELL STATIONS , KLOS GOT SOLD OFF TO MERCADO BROADCASTING & STILL PLAYING THE ROCK FORMAT.
FORMER SISTER STATION KABC 790 TALK RADIO THEY STILL OWNED, BUT SOLD OFF SISTER STATIONS WABC 770 AM TO A BILLIONARE & WPLJ FM 95 WAS SOLD OFF TO THE SAME RELIGIOUS THAT BOUGHT L.A.'S 100.3.
RADIO JUST AIN'T THE SAME ANYMORE IN AMERICA!2
@@waynewright2886 I liked WMAQ from 1979-88 (the country era, though that period started in '75). WHN (1050 NYC) from 1979-87 is my favorite station of all time.
Couldn't Radio.com move 670 The Score up to 780 AM and sell the 670 AM frequency to iHeart Media so that WMAQ can be restored as an all-news radio station, like it was meant to be? Besides, WBBM already has its all-news presence predominantly on the FM dial at 105.9. As before, WMAQ would be a full-fledged NBC News Radio affiliate. The JAM custom ID jingle should be kept intact, as it was heard in the 1990s, but added with "...an iHeart Media station" to the legal ID.
You're right. What I'd like to see, myself, is WNBC (660, NYC) come back. The current occupant of the frequency is WFAN, sister station to WCBS and WINS. For music, I'd like them to be oldies, and they could still be the Yankees' and possibly the Giants/or the Brooklyn Nets flagship. Not gonna happen, of course, but, as a very old song goes "I Can Dream, Can't I?"
Sounded more like Ernie Anderson.
It was indeed Mr. Anderson.
"Group W?" I thought WMAQ was the NBC O&O in Chicago.
They were until NBC decided to get out of the radio business and sold off all their stations. WMAQ was sold to Westinghouse.
Ahhhh, The Love Boat voice on the radio!
The voice over clip at the very beginning is the late Bob Dayton.
Wasn't he at WABC in the '60s?
@@TheBrooklynbodine It’s a different person in New York.
@@MattSmithMe OK, thanks.
NBC's midwestern hub for over 60 years, sold in 1987 as GE dismembered NBC Radio. Westinghouse, which first started KYW in Chicago, moved it to Philadelphia, then Cleveland, and back to Philly again, ended up with 'MAQ and, after a merger with CBS, had to dispose of WIND to keep it. CBS/Westinghouse decided two 50kw I-A blowtorches shouldn't compete for news, so 670 went sports. In New York, 880/WCBS and 1010/WINS are also part of the CBS/Westinghouse package, but agreed to keep the stations' operations separate. Whether new owner Entercom will continue those arrangements, time will tell.
RJ McAllister
They've already announced a sharing of resources, similar to KNX/KFWB back 10 years or so ago.
Viacom owned WSCR 1160, when they bought CBS-Westinghouse, the merged company couldn’t keep 670, 780 and 1160, and they wanted to keep WSCR’s intellectual property.
@@RustyMuck For a brief time, when 670 was WMAQ and 1160 was WJJD, they were both country. This was about 40 years ago.
It is now WSCR, 670 The Score...
sucks
One thing (maybe the only thing) to their credit is they were the Cubs' flagship in 2016, when they finally won it all. I guess they still are, assuming any MLB is played this year.