CBS News Radio shuttered on Friday after nearly a century of broadcasting, playing Edward R. Murrow and his famous sign off, “Good night, and good luck.”

Then came the final words around 11:31 p.m. ET, “CBS News special report. I’m Christopher Cruise.”

The network announced in March that CBS News Radio would be shuttering due to budget cuts under new owners Paramount Skydance. Earlier in the day, there were retrospectives of the radio network’s storied history, including Murrow’s famous broadcasts from London during the blitz of World War II.

Also heard on the final newscast were other current anchors, including Steve Nathan, the anchor of CBS News Roundup, who noted that “America’s longest running newscast signs off for the last time.” Among those offering his memories was Marvin Kalb, 95, who told the network, “Everytime that I could do a piece for the roundup, I felt honored. It wasn’t just a job. It was a calling.” Dan Rather, 94, said that “radio was a kind of magic carpet. They would take you there. They would take you to the war.”

The network had served around 700 radio stations, including those owned by Audacy, which purchased CBS’s radio stations in 2017. A number of those stations have already switched to ABC News for their regular newscasts.

The radio network dates to the birth of CBS in 1927.

Earlier in the day, the Writers Guild of America, East issued a statement criticizing the closure as “a single reckless and shortsighted decision” on the part of Paramount CEO David Ellison and Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News.

“This closure erodes a vital news source for listeners of more than 700-affiliated stations across the country and twenty-six WGAE members with decades of experience and dedication to journalism will be out of work,” the union said.

In announcing the closure in March, Weiss and Tom Cibrowski, the president of CBS News, wrote that a shift “in radio station programming strategies, coupled with challenging economic realities, has made it impossible to continue the service.”

They also noted the long history of the network.