R.I.P.: Ed Ingles, Longtime WCBS-AM NYC Sports Director

Ed Ingles

Ed Ingles, the longtime sports director at WCBS-AM whose mellow voice and friendly, professional personality painted many great radio sports pictures, including all the time he worked as the station's New York Jets reporter and sometimes gameday radio voice, died today.

He was 87, according to The NY Jets.

Ingles was a Bronx native who left the East for the University of Georgia and Georgia radio work before returning to New York radio. He joined WCBS in 1973 and worked there for 24 years, serving for many years as the station's morning drive sports anchor and also being involved in Jets broadcasts when the station first broadcast Green & White games from 1979-83. Jets games also aired on WCBS from 1988-92.

Besides covering the Jets, he also called St. John's University men's basketball as well as golf, tennis, horse racing auto racing and several Olympics. He's been credited for pioneering radio sports updates during his 60-year broadcasting career.

Of his lengthy career, Ingles last year told WCBS 880 program director Tim Scheld: "I didn't have a job, I had an adventure and the reason for that was, when I got up at 2 o' clock in the morning, I was happy to go to work."

Ingles in recent years returned to Hofstra as the school's Professional in Residence, where engaged in another of his passions, mentoring students and young broadcasters at the school's radio station, WRHU-FM.