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Farewell to CBS News Radio - Special Edition rebroadcast of their final show · BOB DOLE : 1995 Clinton's Comeback

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  SPEAKER_06: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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  SPEAKER_12: For as long as WCCO radio has been on the air, it's been CBS Radio News, a force to be reckoned with, according to longtime former reporter Bruce Hogovic, who recalled what it was like the first time he heard one of his reports on the network.
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  SPEAKER_05: I think, oh my gosh, how did I get here doing this?
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_05: I was a small town, you know, rural kid wind up doing that on CBS radio.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_05: Interrupt this program.
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  SPEAKER_05: President Roosevelt is dead.
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  SPEAKER_12: CBS radio executives made the decision to stop broadcasting because of a changing world and diminishing revenue.
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  SPEAKER_12: But former WCCO radio morning show anchor Steve Murphy told Adam Carter it's still very relevant.
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  SPEAKER_07: When news breaks, I think radio is still a leader.
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  SPEAKER_07: I'm a big fan and a big supporter of the medium, not just because I worked in it, but the immediacy of it as well.
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  SPEAKER_12: Susie Jones, News Talk 830 WCCR.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_06: The shuttle challenger with seven crew members exploded shortly after it was launched about 20 minutes ago.
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  SPEAKER_06: It had just been announced that President Kennedy is dead.
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  SPEAKER_06: Well, there he is.
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  SPEAKER_06: He's on the moon.
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  SPEAKER_06: Has he stepped with that left foot?
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_06: These Germans continue to pour across the Berlin Wall for visits to the West.
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  SPEAKER_13: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_16: Looking back, last night was May 22nd.
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  SPEAKER_16: This is May 23rd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_16: And last night was the final broadcast of CBS Radio.
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  SPEAKER_16: And we did a show earlier in the month when it was announced about a month ago when it was announced that they would be would be shutting down.
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  SPEAKER_16: They did that yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_16: A sad day for everybody in the broadcasting uh field, whether it's podcasting like we do or or journalism like CBS and NBC and ABC because CBS Radio is where they started it all.
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  SPEAKER_16: And uh we put together just a brief little show because we're afraid some of you may have missed it or might not have had access to hearing it.
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  SPEAKER_16: So here is a little bit from CBS News about CBS Radio as it prepared to go off the air, and then from WTOPFM in Washington, D.C., the final CBS Radio Bulletins from May 22nd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_16: So this is your chance to hear 100 years of radio.
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  SPEAKER_16: Sign off, and it's a sad day for journalism, as the grandfather of them all.
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  SPEAKER_16: Edward R.
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  SPEAKER_16: Murroe's CBS Radio closes up shop.
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  SPEAKER_10: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_10: I'm Steve Caithin.
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  SPEAKER_11: The voices of Steve Caithan and Deborah Rodriguez new Iranian attacks are familiar for millions of listeners.
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  SPEAKER_11: Part of the CBS News radio team that's on 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  SPEAKER_11: I've always thought that it's so important to get a thorough message out to listeners.
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  SPEAKER_10: It's an American institution.
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  SPEAKER_10: I mean, it's a place where broadcast journalism was born.
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  SPEAKER_11: For more than 15 years, Caithan has anchored the World News Roundup, the longest-running network newscast in history.
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  SPEAKER_10: Just that sort of linkage makes you want to lift your game up.
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  SPEAKER_11: The first roundup aired in 1938.
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  SPEAKER_11: This is Bob Trout speaking to you from New York, opening Columbia's shortwave transatlantic programs.
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  SPEAKER_11: And through World War II, CBS News Radio, led by Edward R.
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  SPEAKER_11: Murrow, became vital for the nation.
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  SPEAKER_19: Hello, America.
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  SPEAKER_19: This is Edward Murrow speaking from London.
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  SPEAKER_19: There were more German planes over the coast of Britain today than at any time since the war began.
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  SPEAKER_20: You didn't work for Murrow if you couldn't write well.
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  SPEAKER_11: Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather grew up listening to those broadcasts.
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  SPEAKER_20: CBS Radio should be remembered for becoming a national institution.
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  SPEAKER_20: Very important to the development of news other than newspapers.
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  SPEAKER_14: We're out there covering the war in Iran right now.
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  SPEAKER_14: What's going on there?
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  SPEAKER_14: What's happening in the Strait of Hormuz?
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  SPEAKER_11: Dustin Gervais manages CBS News Radio today.
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  SPEAKER_11: We went to the old newsroom where Walter Cronkite once anchored.
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  SPEAKER_14: This wall uh was the map that was behind Walter Cronkite when he was doing broadcasts.
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  SPEAKER_11: And radio correspondents use typewriters and reel-to-reel tape to report history.
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  SPEAKER_14: This morning, divers taken to the scene by another many submarines.
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  SPEAKER_14: What we do here at CBS has continued from when we started in the 20s to today.
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  SPEAKER_11: For journalists who've covered it all, their own sign-off is a defining moment.
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  SPEAKER_11: I think the heart and soul of an era in news telling is going to be lost.
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  SPEAKER_10: When you think about people who have done it previously and the history behind it all, it's been a real honor.
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  SPEAKER_10: The voices delivering the news.
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  SPEAKER_11: I'm Peter King.
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  SPEAKER_13: I'm Wendy Gillette.
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  SPEAKER_13: I'm Jennifer Kuyper.
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  SPEAKER_11: Leaving their own legacy.
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  SPEAKER_11: I'm Alison Keys.
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  SPEAKER_11: I'm Christopher Cruz.
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  SPEAKER_13: I'm Cammy McCormick.
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  SPEAKER_18: I'm Stacey Lynn.
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  SPEAKER_11: I'm Michael Wallace.
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  SPEAKER_18: I'm Linda Kenyon.
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  SPEAKER_11: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_11: Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, New York.
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  SPEAKER_17: You're listening to WTOP.
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  SPEAKER_17: News happens here.
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  SPEAKER_02: 103.5 FM, 107.7 FM, 103.9 FM.
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  SPEAKER_18: And worldwide on Alexa, the WTOP app and WTOP.com.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good evening.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Nick Ionelli.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is a historic moment right now as CBS News Radio is shutting down.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's radio news service after nearly a century on the air.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are taking these final broadcasts here on WTOP.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's 11 o'clock.
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  SPEAKER_09: This is CBS News on the hour with our team of reporters around the country and the world.
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  SPEAKER_09: In Los Angeles.
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  SPEAKER_07: In Chicago.
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  SPEAKER_15: In New York.
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  SPEAKER_07: Washington.
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  SPEAKER_07: At the Kennedy Space Center.
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  SPEAKER_15: At the Foreign Desk in London.
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  SPEAKER_15: On the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
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  SPEAKER_08: At the Vatican.
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  SPEAKER_08: You know.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Kiev.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Moscow.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Amon Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Baghdad, in Lobar Province, which is just south of Kabul.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Islamabad, Pakistan.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Beijing.
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  SPEAKER_08: In Seoul, Tokyo.
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  SPEAKER_09: And I'm Christopher Cruz from the Douglas Edwards room at CBS News headquarters.
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  SPEAKER_09: CBS News Radio has been the home of legendary journalists like Edward R.
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  SPEAKER_09: Murrow, who flew with bombers over Berlin during World War II.
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  SPEAKER_09: Berlin was a kind of orchestrated hell.
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  SPEAKER_09: A terrible symphony of light and flame.
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  SPEAKER_09: CBS News Radio brought the news into your home from the lunar landing.
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  SPEAKER_06: The Moon Age began less than two hours ago when American astronauts radioed, From the Moon, the Eagle has landed.
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  SPEAKER_09: To the Challenger disaster.
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  SPEAKER_09: Debris falling out of the sky, falling slowly, painfully, tragically slowly toward the Atlantic Ocean.
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  SPEAKER_09: From ground zero.
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  SPEAKER_15: The devastation that is before us now is unbelievable in terms of an entire world trade tower collapsing.
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  SPEAKER_15: There is nothing left of this thing.
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  SPEAKER_09: To foreign battlefields.
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  SPEAKER_13: The roads are lined with IEDs, and two Iraqi soldiers are killed when their Humvee is struck by a bomb.
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  SPEAKER_13: U.S.
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  SPEAKER_13: warplanes are eventually brought in to strike targets from the air.
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  SPEAKER_04: And through the pandemic, 39 lives have been lost to coronavirus at the Canterbury Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in suburban Richmond, Virginia.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's one of the worst concentrated outbreaks nationwide.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_09: The famed CBS Newsman Marvin Kalb said he always tried to be on the World News Roundup, a program started here that created the modern news format.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: Every time that I could do a piece for the Roundup, I felt honored.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't just a job, it was a calling.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_09: Dan Rather began his career in radio.
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  SPEAKER_20: Radio was a kind of magic carpet.
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  SPEAKER_20: They would take you there, they'd take you to the war.
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  SPEAKER_20: Radio had a certain immediacy about it.
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  SPEAKER_09: Thoughts echoed by now former CBS News correspondent Scott McFarlane.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_08: Try explaining a Supreme Court ruling in all its eccentricities in 20 seconds.
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  SPEAKER_08: CBS Radio could always do it.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_08: The biggest, the smallest, everything was told efficiently, conversationally.
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  SPEAKER_08: It's really what's the best of social media now.
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  SPEAKER_09: And now, for all of us at CBS News Radio, for the last time, this is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_09: As CBS News Radio comes to an end, we borrow a page from CBS News Radio correspondent and anchor Robert Trout, and his tribute to our first home, Studio 9.
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  SPEAKER_06: It's just a soundproof room, 15 by 20, surrounded on two sides by glass-encased control rooms.
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  SPEAKER_06: On the third, it looks out into the clutter of the CBS Newsroom.
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  SPEAKER_06: It's not the handsomest radio studio, not the most modern, not lovely at all.
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  SPEAKER_06: But for those who have worked here, it has a charm all its own.
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  SPEAKER_09: We shall miss it.
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  SPEAKER_09: For all of us at CBS News Radio, the hundreds of affiliated radio stations and the millions of listeners.
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  SPEAKER_13: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_09: This is Edward Murrow speaking from Vienna.
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  SPEAKER_09: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_13: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_09: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_13: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_13: This is CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_09: For the final time, I have the privilege to say, I'm Christopher Cruz, CBS News.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's 11.05 on Friday, May 22nd, 49 degrees.
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  SPEAKER_03: Rainy tonight lows around well, right now, 49, and we're not going anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tomorrow highs around 60, and the rain is going to continue.
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  SPEAKER_17: Good.
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  SPEAKER_17: You're listening to WTOP.
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  SPEAKER_17: News happens here.
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  SPEAKER_02: 103.5 FM.
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  SPEAKER_02: 107.7 FM.
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  SPEAKER_02: 103.9 FM.
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  SPEAKER_18: And worldwide on Alexa, the WTOP app and WTOP.com.
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  SPEAKER_03: Good evening.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Nick Ionelli.
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  SPEAKER_03: Juan Herrera's our producer.
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  SPEAKER_18: Breaking news on WTOP.
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  SPEAKER_03: The breaking news is the end of an era as CBS News is shutting down its historic radio news service after about 100 years on the air first started in 1927.
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  SPEAKER_03: The final broadcast right now.
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  SPEAKER_09: CBS News Special Report.
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  SPEAKER_09: After 99 years, CBS News Radio is going off the air tonight.
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  SPEAKER_09: For this final newscast, the news anchors you've been listening to for years wanted to say goodbye.
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  SPEAKER_09: The longtime anchor of the CBS World News Roundup, Steve Kathan.
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  SPEAKER_10: We are saying farewell this morning.
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  SPEAKER_10: America's longest running newscast signs off for the last time.
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  SPEAKER_10: Washington correspondent Allison Keyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to shout out my colleagues from Steve Kathan to Deborah Rodriguez to Cammy McCormick, Stacey Lynn, Linda Kenyon, Jim Crasula, and so many others who have given their hearts to this company and to the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks to our copy editors, desk associates, tape ops, and also our amazing engineers and IT folk.
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  SPEAKER_09: Morning anchor Deborah Rodriguez agrees.
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  SPEAKER_13: My gratitude to each and every one of you.
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  SPEAKER_13: And for one last time, this is CBS News Radio.
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  SPEAKER_09: And Edward R.
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  SPEAKER_09: Murrow.
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  SPEAKER_09: CBS News Special Report.
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  SPEAKER_15: I'm Christopher Cruz.