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50 People To Know: Living WCBS Legend Charles Osgood

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – This week marks the end of our 50 People to Know series.

Over the past 50 weeks, we have met some very special people who have touched their communities in a powerful and positive way. We've been proud to feature their stories as we celebrate 50 years of news coverage on WCBS.

Charles Osgood, WCBS 880
Charles Osgood stops by the WCBS Newsradio 880 studios for Hungerthon 2017 and poses with the station's Marconi Award. (Credit: WCBS Newsradio 880)

Find more 50th anniversary special features here, and be sure to follow the station on Facebook and Twitter.

For this final 50 People to Know, we chose to tell the story of someone very close to us: Charles Osgood.

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Charles Osgood with longtime WCBS reporter Rich Lamb. (Credit: WCBS Newsradio 880)

He's a living legend in our business – a storyteller's storyteller. He was also one of the first news anchors on WCBS when we flipped to our all-news format in August of 1967.

Sean Adams shares his story.

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