After 99 years on the air, the last of the original U.S. radio networks aired its last broadcast on Friday, May 22.
The final hourly CBS Radio News top-of-the-hour newscast at 11 p.m. Eastern time was devoted to what was arguably the biggest national news story at the moment: the end of that very broadcast. The entire four minutes was a tribute to the network’s history.
Here’s the final hourly newscast, as recorded from KDAL/610 (Duluth). (The mid-newscast commercial break has been removed.).
The actual final network broadcast was at 11:30 p.m. Eastern time. At that time, KDAL (10:30 p.m. Central) aired the news brief below, but as it turns out, it was not actually the final broadcast but a recording of an earlier broadcast:
(The last few seconds of the network broadcast was cut off by the station.)
Reporter Steve Futterman later posted the actual final broadcast from 11:30 p.m. ET:
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