Longtime New York news radio station WCBS 880 will end operations later this month, as the station’s parent company sold the rights to ESPN. The decision ends a nearly six-decade run for WCBS 880 as a ...

The author is a broadcast technology consultant who, most recently, was CTO of WAMU in Washington, DC. He was previously market chief for CBS Radio New York and began there as an engineer at WCBS 880.