Charles Osgood who anchored of CBS’s Sunday Morning for greater than 20 years and was host of the long-running radio program The Osgood File, and was known as CBS Information’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. Suzanne Plunkett/AP Photograph cover caption
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Charles Osgood who anchored of CBS’s Sunday Morning for greater than 20 years and was host of the long-running radio program The Osgood File, and was known as CBS Information’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91.
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Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for greater than 20 years, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was known as CBS Information’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91.
CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his dwelling in Saddle River, New Jersey, and that the trigger was dementia, in response to his household.
Osgood was an erudite, heat broadcaster with a aptitude for music who might write essays and lightweight verse in addition to report onerous information. He labored radio and tv with equal facility, and signed off by telling listeners: “I am going to see you on the radio.”
“To say there isn’t any one like Charles Osgood is an understatement,” Rand Morrison, govt producer of “Sunday Morning,” mentioned in a press release. “He embodied the guts and soul of ‘Sunday Morning.’ … On the piano, Charlie put our lives to music. Really, he was considered one of a form — in each sense.”
“CBS Information Sunday Morning” will honor Osgood with a particular broadcast on Sunday.
Osgood took over “Sunday Morning” after the beloved Charles Kuralt retired in 1994. Osgood seemingly had an unattainable act to observe, however along with his folksy erudition and his barely bookish, bow-tied fashion, he instantly clicked with viewers who continued to embrace this system as an unhurried TV journal.
Osgood, who graduated from Fordham College in 1954, began as a basic music DJ in Washington, D.C., served within the Military and returned to assist begin WHCT in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1963, he acquired an on-air place at ABC Radio in New York.
In 1967, he took a job as reporter on the CBS-owned New York information radio station NewsRadio 88. Then, one fateful weekend, he was summoned to fill in on the anchor desk for the TV community’s Saturday newscast. In 1971, he joined the CBS community and launched what could be generally known as “The Osgood File.”
In 1990, he was inducted into the radio division of the Nationwide Affiliation of Broadcaster’s Corridor of Fame. In 2008, he was awarded the Nationwide Affiliation of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award. He received 4 Emmy Awards, and earned a fifth lifetime achievement honor in 2017.
Jane Pauley succeeded Osgood as host of “Sunday Morning,” turning into solely the third host of this system.
When he retired in 2016 after 45 years of journalism, Osgood did so in a really Osgood vogue.
“For years now, individuals — even family and friends — have been asking me why I proceed doing this, contemplating my age,” the then-83-year-old Osgood mentioned in short concluding remarks. “It is simply that it has been such a pleasure doing it! It has been an important run, however after practically 50 years at CBS … the time has come.”
After which he sang just a few wistful bars from a favourite people tune: “So lengthy, it has been good to know you. I’ve acquired to be driftin’ alongside.”
