thousand one, two thousand two", etc. End of broadcasting career On December 21, 2017, it was announced that Osgood would retire from the radio show due to health concerns ending his broadcast career. His final broadcasts were on December 29, 2017. Other works In 1956, Osgood wrote a three-act play called A Single Voice. He was voice of the narrator in the 2008 animated film Horton Hears a Who!. He wrote a biweekly syndicated newspaper column. He is the author of six books: Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis That Is Minor in the Morning (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979); There's Nothing That I Wouldn't Do If You Would Be My POSSLQ (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981); Osgood on Speaking: How to Think on Your Feet Without Falling on Your Face (William Morrow and Company, 1988); The Osgood Files (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991); See You on the Radio (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999); and the most recent, Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack (Hyperion, 2004). Personal life Osgood raised his family in Englewood, New Jersey. He and his wife, Jeanne Crafton, have five children. When they became empty nesters, Osgood and his wife moved to a 12-room duplex on West 57th Street at 7th Avenue in New York City. A road in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Osgood Drive, that's mostly used for the Logantown Centre, is named after Charles Osgood. Honors 1990: National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame, radio division 2004: Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. 2005: Paul White Award, Radio Television Digital News Association See also New Yorkers in journalism References External links Official CBS biography The Osgood File 1933 births Living people American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents American radio journalists CBS News people Military personnel from New York City Fordham University alumni People from Englewood, New Jersey People from Manhattan St. Cecilia High School (New Jersey) alumni 20th-century American journalists American male journalists 21st-century American journalists Journalists from New York City 60 Minutes correspondents WFUV people