Chuck will proceed to be part of the WNBC household and supply particular reviews and contributions to particular station initiatives and programming.
To rejoice his retirement after 50 years with NBC New York, Campbell Brett and Grace Brett had a particular and loving message for his or her grandaddy, Chuck Scarborough.
Here is his message to viewers as he closed out his last broadcast:
Before everything, I’m profoundly grateful in your belief. With out that, I’d not have survived for greater than half a century on this job and been allowed to occupy this entrance row seat to the historical past of our fascinating metropolis and the world past for thus lengthy.
4 months after I arrived in 1974, President Nixon, who gained a landslide election simply two-years earlier, resigned. The primary presidential resignation within the nation’s historical past.
In 1975, New York Metropolis plunged into efficient chapter and the Vietnam warfare got here to a chaotic finish.
However simply as vital had been the tales of human achievement within the arts and sciences, of forgiveness, kindness, restoration, and resilience.
If there may be one overarching lesson I’ve discovered, it’s that we’re extra resilient than we understand – individually and as a metropolis and nation. We get knocked down, and we come again stronger.
On this age of algorithms and cable channels herding the citizenry into like-minded silos of A.I., and social media fictions suffocating reality, it has by no means been extra vital to do what they achieve this effectively: hue to the fundamental ideas of accuracy, objectivity and equity.
I urged my colleagues to do one thing I nonetheless do to re-establish perspective, appreciation, a way of mission.
Stroll out on Fifth Avenue, and look again by way of the Channel Gardens, throughout the skating rink, above the statue, at this towering constructing with awe, and say: “I work here. I work here, and this is important. What I do is important. I work for the National Broadcasting Company, the oldest and largest television network in this country, with a storied history.”
Really feel the burden of that historical past. The load of the accountability that all of us bear to get it proper, to do it effectively, to make it attention-grabbing. It’s an honor to work with you.
All of us must carry our eyes often from the political fevers and societal imperfections of the day and admire what we’ve, how far we’ve come, and the chance we’ve been given to proceed our journey towards a extra good union.
Thanks, and good evening.
For greater than 50 years, Chuck Scarborough delivered the information to NBC New York viewers. As he retires, they bought the possibility to inform him simply how a lot of an impression he is had on their lives as they tuned in for his broadcasts.
