Charles Osgood, who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for greater than twenty years, 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.
CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his house in New Jersey and that the trigger was dementia, in response to his household.
Osgood was a broadcaster who may write essays and lightweight verse in addition to report laborious information, and he labored radio and tv with equal facility. He usually signed off by telling listeners: “I’ll see you on the radio.”
Osgood took over “Sunday Morning” after the beloved Charles Kuralt retired in 1994. Osgood seemingly had an inconceivable act to observe, however along with his folksy erudition and his barely bookish, bow-tied model, he instantly clicked with viewers who continued to embrace this system as an unhurried TV journal.
In 1967, he took a job as reporter on the CBS-owned New York information radio station. 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.
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