Alan Colmes
It was the day broadcast industry expert’s thought would never come. On October 7, 1988 the flagship station of the National Broadcasting Company, the legendary WNBC, was going off the air for good. NBC brass wanted the final show to be a fitting tribute to its incredible history. That’s why NBC’s afternoon talk host Alan Colmes was tapped to preside over its final hours.
As a little boy growing up on Long Island, in the shadows of the world's number one radio market, Colmes would stay up late into the night, hiding under his covers with an old clunky earpiece, listening to WNBC when it was New York's state of the art conversation station in the 1960’s.
Now television crews from every major media outlet, and historical radio figures, were swirling around him, following his lead, as he sadly put this radio icon to bed. As Colmes said in his closing remarks that day, “Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.”
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