NYC Radio: Pat Farnack Wraps-Up Career At WCBS-AM

Pat Farnack

A midday fixture on the New York radio news airways is stepping away from the microphone this week as Pat Farnack retires from her job anchoring news on Newsradio WCBS 880 AM.

Farnack leaves her full-time role on WCBS 880 after a nearly 19-year run at the radio station. Her final broadcast was Tuesday.

Her career spanned almost five decades working at iconic stations like 66WNBC and KYW in Philadelphia.

Farnack began her career in college at a small radio station in Berwick, PA where a surprise vacancy in the on-air booth led to her first shift.

“I was terrible, but I was hooked," she said.

.@wcbs880's @pfarnack retired today, after 47-years in broadcasting. On this page, Pat reminisces about her long career, and even shares a few photos from back in the day. https://t.co/bPbYpPhh8P

— Steve Scott (@SteveScottNEWS) December 17, 2019

Farnack worked over a dozen years at KYW Radio, and for a time KYW-TV before co-hosting a drive-time news show at WWDB with one-time WCBS Anchor Gil Gross. He calls her “the best co-anchor” he has ever worked with.

Farnack also spent time at WNBC in New York delivering news in the days of Don Imus and Howard Stern and even did a several-month stint as traffic report in the flying “N” Copter.

In December of 2000, Pat came to work at WCBS Newsradio 880 where she has been ever since.

“It encompassed everything that is me. Talking, writing … and I just love it," she said.