Word: wcbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...polls had been closed just ten minutes and 25 seconds when WCBS-XV called him the winner. Sheer primordial joy suffused the face of Edward Irving Koch, who normally has the contemplative features of a Talmudic scholar. The moment passed quickly. Feigning loud dismay, Koch cried: "I want it to be longer! I want to enjoy it more! It's too early! I refuse to accept victory...
...York teen-ager explained in a WCBS radio interview how he started at the age of twelve to rob old women. "I was young, and I knew I wasn't gonna get no big time. So, you know, what's to worry? If you're doin' wrong, do it while you're young, because you won't do that much time...
Denenberg is one of at least 50 TV consumer reporters in the U.S. They are a new and embattled breed. John Stossel of New York City's WCBS-TV faces $25 million worth of lawsuits, and Orien Reed, Denenberg's counterpart at KYW-TV in Philadelphia, says she has lost count of the actions filed against her. But Herb Denenberg? He has provoked not a single lawsuit. Not a single advertiser has threatened to cancel...
...XTRA, a station in Tijuana, Mexico, that beamed its signal to Southern California, all-news had until last week been adopted by fewer than 20 of the nation's 7,140 AM and FM outlets. But those form an elite group: New York City's WCBS, the nation's most listened to station; KNX in Los Angeles, which has climbed from eighth place to first place in L.A.-area ratings after switching to all-news in 1968; and first-or second-place stations in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and San Francisco, all of which have moved up sharply...
...impressive success, is its equally impressive cost. Instead of a skeleton crew of disc jockeys and rip-and-read announcers, an all-news station typically has platoons of street reporters, anchor persons, helicopter-borne traffic spotters, weather analysts, consumer reporters, writers, editors, directors and producers. New York's WCBS, for example, has 60 editorial employees, nearly three times its pre-all-news complement, and Chicago's WBBM went from 32 staffers to 64 when it made the switch in 1968. Says WBBM General Manager Bill O'Donnell: "We could run two or three stations with the overhead...