RIP Charles Osgood

[Neutral Corner]

Longtime CBS broadcaster and former "Sunday Morning" host has passed at 91.

 

[UPChip]

Well, there's someone for the Hail and Farewell reel.

 

[dixiehack]

(sad radio chirps)

 

[maumann]

Dang. Just a gorgeous voice and as good-natured and friendly in person as he was on the air. His Osgood File rhyming pieces are some of the best radio created. RIP.

 

[User 149557]

Is there a television show with a higher Q rating than CBS Sunday Morning? They beat Youtube to ASMR by four decades and the voices of Kuralt, Osgood and Pauley instinctively lower my blood pressure.

 

[DanOregon]

Its like CBS grows these types on the vine. Osgood and Kuralt were just excellent writers and broadcasters - I don't see news people like them lasting decades at a network, let alone in the business these days. Understated - low-key - and with those pipes - Osgood was a classic.

 

[MileHigh]

He was comfort food. Soothing. Not just Sunday Morning, but on the radio with the Osgood Files. RIP.

 

[Liut]

This hurts. An icon. Represented what radio needed to be.

 

[Liut]

CBS Mornings aired a nice tribute in its second hour. Tease for Sunday Morning indicated the program would be a 90-minute testimonial.
Occurred to me this morning there was a time I hit Osgood at :25 past and Paul Harvey at :30. Seems like a lifetime ago.

 

[Starman]

Osgood and Kuralt staked out some territory as the folksy, relaxed avuncular type --perfect for slices of Americana features.

Walter was the voice of authority. Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid the firm scholarly type. Roger Mudd and Mike Wallace were in that camp as well. Dan Rather when he arrived was the brash young cowboy journalist.

Before Kuralt settled into folksy middle age status, he did quite a lot of reporting from Vietnam, I believe.

 

[HanSenSE]

Osgood and Kuralt staked out some territory as the folksy, relaxed avuncular type --perfect for slices of Americana features.

Walter was the voice of authority. Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid the firm scholarly type. Roger Mudd and Mike Wallace were in that camp as well. Dan Rather when he arrived was the brash young cowboy journalist.

Before Kuralt settled into folksy middle age status, he did quite a lot of reporting from Vietnam, I believe.

Kuralt also did the "On The Road" segments - and he had one in every town.

 

[BTExpress]

Occurred to me this morning there was a time I hit Osgood at :25 past and Paul Harvey at :30.

Time very well spent.

 

[maumann]

Osgood and Kuralt staked out some territory as the folksy, relaxed avuncular type --perfect for slices of Americana features.

Walter was the voice of authority. Harry Reasoner and Eric Sevareid the firm scholarly type. Roger Mudd and Mike Wallace were in that camp as well. Dan Rather when he arrived was the brash young cowboy journalist.

Before Kuralt settled into folksy middle age status, he did quite a lot of reporting from Vietnam, I believe.

I can't remember exactly how many motorhomes Kuralt and his crew wore out, but it was at least four. Always wanted to do one season like that with NASCAR, driving between races and filing stories from the road but Turner refused to cover my expenses.

 

[dixiehack]

and he had one in every town.

What’s more All-American than that?

 

[Liut]

I can't remember exactly how many motorhomes Kuralt and his crew wore out, but it was at least four. Always wanted to do one season like that with NASCAR, driving between races and filing stories from the road but Turner refused to cover my expenses.

Vaguely recall one of his crew was a guy nicknamed Izzy (think he might have been sound man) who was driver ... and mechanic.
Bad on Turner, great idea.

 

[maumann]

Vaguely recall one of his crew was a guy nicknamed Izzy (think he might have been sound man) who was driver ... and mechanic.
Bad on Turner, great idea.

My boss suggested I drive between Pocono and Watkins Glen one summer to demonstrate to the "suits" how it would work. I stopped at the Baseball Hall of Fame and interviewed the curator about how a potential NASCAR Hall would work, went to Chemung to visit the home of the Bodines and a piece on Chemung Speedway, stopped at Mike Stefanik's house/garage to chat about his NASCAR Modified career and then drove the original Watkins Glen road course with whatever technology came before GoPro.

We showed the people in the corner office at 1015 Techwood all this content and how unique it was, and all they wanted to complain about was the amount of money I spent on hotel, gas and food. Beancounters.

(And three years later, David Levy spent some ungodly amount of money to buy amateur hour Bleacher Report.)

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I can't remember exactly how many motorhomes Kuralt and his crew wore out, but it was at least four. Always wanted to do one season like that with NASCAR, driving between races and filing stories from the road but Turner refused to cover my expenses.

Pretty sure they were made by FMC.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

My boss suggested I drive between Pocono and Watkins Glen one summer to demonstrate to the "suits" how it would work. I stopped at the Baseball Hall of Fame and interviewed the curator about how a potential NASCAR Hall would work, went to Chemung to visit the home of the Bodines and a piece on Chemung Speedway, stopped at Mike Stefanik's house/garage to chat about his NASCAR Modified career and then drove the original Watkins Glen road course with whatever technology came before GoPro.

We showed the people in the corner office at 1015 Techwood all this content and how unique it was, and all they wanted to complain about was the amount of money I spent on hotel, gas and food. Beancounters.

(And three years later, David Levy spent some ungodly amount of money to buy amateur hour Bleacher Report.)

Maybe it would have worked if you just walked, starved yourself and slept in a tent. Did you ever think about that?

 

[wicked]

Of all the people I’d have on the dual families Bingo card, Charles Kuralt was not one. I’m amazed with how he pulled it off, even back then.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Of all the people I’d have on the dual families Bingo card, Charles Kuralt was not one. I’m amazed with how he pulled it off, even back then.

I was today days old when I learned this.