WCBS (880 kHz), often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880" (pronounced as "Eight Eighty") is a radio station in New York City. Owned by CBS Radio, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network. Its studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan, and the transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx, New York.
Even though the station has been broadcasting as WCBS since ...
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WCBS (880 kHz), often referred to as "WCBS Newsradio 880" (pronounced as "Eight Eighty") is a radio station in New York City. Owned by CBS Radio, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of the CBS Radio Network. Its studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan, and the transmitter is located on High Island in the Bronx, New York.
Even though the station has been broadcasting as WCBS since November 2, 1946, its history goes back to 1924 when Alfred H. Grebe started WAHG at 920 kHz. WAHG was a pioneering station in New York, and was one of the first commercial radio stations to broadcast from remote locations including horse races and yachting events. Two years later, in 1926, Alfred Grebe changed the call sign to WABC (for his Atlantic Broadcasting Company) after concluding a business arrangement with the Ashland Battery Company (which had owned the call sign for a station in Asheville, North Carolina) and moved his studios to...
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