Back Stories: WCBS Starts Streaming

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- Did you know that WCBS was the first major market radio station to stream over the internet?

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Former WCBS engineer Barry Siegfried was the man who made it happen. He says the station's general manager, Steve Swenson "wanted very much to join the 21st Century and get a streaming presence on the internet."

Swenson then turned to Siegfried to get the job done.

"From there, a whole department at CBS Radio was born overnight," he says.