Audacy News 780 WBBM Chicago/105.9 WCFS-FM Elmwood Park IL morning news anchor Pat Cassidy announced today he will retire at the end of the year.

Cassidy spent his entire 50+ year career in Chicago starting as morning news anchor at 92.7 WEXI in 1969. He later spent time as morning news anchor at 102.7 WGLD turned WBMX before joining News 670 WMAQ in 1975. He would spend some time also on then sister 101.1 WNIS-FM and was promoted to Assistant News Director lasting through the end of the station’s format in 2000. He then moved over to WBBM when CBS Radio combined the two brands in the same morning role until a brief detour to co-hosting a 9-11am show on 890 WLS with Erich ‘Mancow’ Muller from August 2008 to March 2010. Cassidy would then return to his familiar morning anchor perch on WBBM.

As part of an internal email shared by Robert Feder, Cassidy wrote, “I leave WBBM in the very strong, good hands of talented journalists and broadcasters with a mantra of fairness, accuracy, and truth-seeking. I know you will continue to support each other.

I will miss all of you, our loyal listeners, and the energy of a breaking news story. I will not miss waking up at 2:30 for 51 years or seeing the hideous picture on my work ID each morning at the front desk.”