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What happens to WCBS 880 now?

fybush said:
My Subaru, like most modern cars, has Android Auto (and Apple CarPlay, but I'm Android).

When I start up the car, it automatically connects to the phone. The Google Maps app automatically comes up on the screen. If I haven't already punched in a destination, I can use voice commands to tell it where I'm going, and it will give me what it thinks is the best route and the ETA. As I'm driving, it will offer me alternatives if traffic changes, warn me of speed traps ahead, etc.
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I think you may have lost some of our contributors at "automatically comes up on the screen". Immediately they started thinking about being able to watch classic Green Acres reruns in their Edsel someday.
 
TheBigA said:
WCBS does traffic reports because they're sponsored.
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Content that wouldn't otherwise exist unless it had a sponsor attached to it.

Those twice-hourly so-called "traffic" hits on non-music stations, where you get one or maybe two updates and the sponsor copy is always a longer read, are perfect examples.
 
fybush said:
My Subaru, like most modern cars, has Android Auto (and Apple CarPlay, but I'm Android).

When I start up the car, it automatically connects to the phone. The Google Maps app automatically comes up on the screen. If I haven't already punched in a destination, I can use voice commands to tell it where I'm going, and it will give me what it thinks is the best route and the ETA. As I'm driving, it will offer me alternatives if traffic changes, warn me of speed traps ahead, etc.

If I have driven the same route or searched for the same destination over the last few days, it will even guess where it thinks I'm heading and offer that as a suggested destination. One tap of the screen and I can confirm or dismiss that.
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And mine has CarPlay. If it suggests a route several times and I take another despite no difference in traffic or road conditions, it learns not to suggest that route and stops telling me to "make a U turn and turn right on Fred Waring" when I don't want that accident prone street filled with snowbirds.

I can also do things like "find me a gas station that is on my route" if I am in an area where I do not want to get off of the main streets but need fuel (for my last gas powered car, BTW... they only make my model as electric only now!).
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
That's part of a larger question about whether radio traffic reports are still relevant, given their replacement by in-vehicle navigation and apps that provide information which is both more timely and accurate.
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My Favorite Helicopter šŸš traffic reporter was Neil Bush. Tom Kaminski is great but Neil Bush was the best. Itā€™s been at least 30 years since 1010 WINS on 92.3 FM landed their Jet Bell Helicopter šŸš & Believe it or not 710 WOR also had a Helicopter at one time. I believe George Mead Flew & reported.
 
Always interest said:
I got to be honest I donā€™t remember him
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According to Don Swaim, Lou Timolat (please pardon the misspelling in my previous post) and Neal Busch had formed their own company, Luftspiegel ("air mirror" auf Englisch), in 1974. Ten years later, Mr. Busch bought out Mr. Timolat's interest in Luftspiegel and negotiated a new contract with WCBS.

Although Lou Timolat's book (1974) is out of print, its first chapter is available at Don Swaim's tribute site: "Traffic Beat."
 
Kemosabe said:
According to Don Swaim, Lou Timolat (please pardon the misspelling in my previous post) and Neal Busch had formed their own company, Luftspiegel ("air mirror" auf Englisch), in 1974. Ten years later, Mr. Busch bought out Mr. Timolat's interest in Luftspiegel and negotiated a new contract with WCBS.

Although Lou Timolat's book (1974) is out of print, its first chapter is available at Don Swaim's tribute site: "Traffic Beat."
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Thatā€™s Great History. Pretty cool thanks for telling me that I appreciate it šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Š
 
Always interest said:
Do they still have chopper 880 ? I ask because to me, if they eliminated that it would save Audacy a lot of money. Traffic information is mostly monitored these days by camera & other technology
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Apps are useful, but honestly when I need to hear some traffic info in a hurry, I'll put on Traffic and Weather on the 8's. I always preferred CBS to WINS because WINS tends to only focus on the five boros while CBS will include reports from the wider tri-state area.
 
Always interest said:
My Favorite Helicopter šŸš traffic reporter was Neil Bush. Tom Kaminski is great but Neil Bush was the best. Itā€™s been at least 30 years since 1010 WINS on 92.3 FM landed their Jet Bell Helicopter šŸš & Believe it or not 710 WOR also had a Helicopter at one time. I believe George Mead Flew & reported.
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I believe Fred Feldman was WOR's original helicopter traffic reporter. After being a staple of 710 from the early '60s thru the mid-'70s, he left on air work to become an executive with Shadow Traffic.
 
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