At least ten of the top 14 were great songs. Bruce was 43 when this was taken. Port Jefferson Branch. When Capitol contacted the Beatles and asked for a cover photo for the Yesterday & Today album, the Beatles sent the now infamous "Butcher" cover as a statement about Capitol "butchering" their releases. SiriusXM radio host Howard Stern told Morning Joes Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist in an extensive interview that MSNBC is the network for him regarding cable news consumption. Almost as if the design of the survey also represented the importance of WABC. It reflects the maturity and integrity of the station (although it was broadcast on a Sunday night when relatively few people listened.) A whole $7.70 ($74.20 in 2022 dollars). The Yardbirds show up. Late summer of '63 surveys. Weeks ending August 17th, 24th, 31st, 1963. Surely, there is a deceit limit. Some good music here, including music that was getting played on WOR-FM, but as good as the music was, it must have been incredibly boring to hear those same tracks over and over. But obviously there was no impact until the first ratings book after the change was released. Police searched the house several months earlier as part of an investigation into the disappearance of Charlotte Lester, who has beenmissing for six months. This was given out to advertisers and anyone else
The Beatles only have one track at the beginning of the month- "Love Me Do", originally released in 1962. Legend says this stemmed from a dispute Muni had with Rick Sklar over a Four Seasons recording. American Pie: did WABC play the long version? The incident highlights the ongoing debate surrounding free speech, cancel culture, and the importance of context in understanding controversial comments. 12 out of the 21 songs listed were FM hits. Not bad music, but it didn't change much over the month. I talked about laws being violated.. Contributed by Rob Frankel via RadioMaven77 on Mixcloud. Not terribly different than what WOR-FM was playing, where the DJ's showed up on October 8th. It peaked at #12 and stayed on the Billboard charts for 8 weeks. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 postings on Mixcloud as originally recorded by Mark Yurko. The question was, with an increasingly fractured society and music starting to reflect that, did it still work? The station will no longer air the Ben Shapiro Show. I watch this channel exclusively for news. Didn't this get boring? is easy to see why program director Rick Sklar was so happy on
Radio Changes & Moves. "Chain of Fools", "She's a Rainbow", "Hello, Goodbye". Note that aside from the small number of tracks and LPs listed, almost all of the acts would also be played on progressive rock stations. Freedom 96.9 is teasing the addition of Dana Loesch to the lineup as well to enhance the rebrand further as the station begins a new chapter as it provides news/talk to the residents. However, the UK version of Rubber Soul had a different track configuration and contained four songs that Capitol would hold for Yesterday & Today: "Drive My Car", "Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone". One interesting note is that when the station ran a Beatles promotion asking listeners to submit an art design for a medal, they received over 50,000 entries. A few comments: Ron Lundy is promoted as appealing to the "modern woman", but they show a vintage drawing of a woman from the 1800s or even earlier. Dan Ingram on a warm Fall Saturday a few months before the Beatles would change everything. According to Stigall, after watching the video in question, Adams had a moment of way too much honesty and drawing logical conclusions from the Rasmussen study. Or maybe not.. The Beatles aren't listed on the January 11th survey, but from the January 18th survey, we can see that they were actually at #35 the previous week. fired). Even a public radio station wouldn't be that daring today. By this time, WABC seems to have pulled away from most of the acts that could also be heard on FM. The man who lives there, Mark Perkins, was also arrested the following day after he allegedlycharged at DePetro with a lawnmowerwhile DePetro was live-streaming. Im watching oldDatelines. More of the same, but we do get some Ray Charles late in the month. There's only a few tracks that wouldn't fit on a progressive rock station, but the question remains: would the same listener who wanted to hear Little Green Apples and Chewy Chewy also want to hear Janis Joplin sing Piece of My Heart and Fire by Arthur Brown? But if the playlist was a tight as the survey, it could have been excruciating to listen to. ABC7 New York 24/7 Eyewitness News Stream. This is the only one we've found so far, but we think it's a great portrait of a then-youthful Ron Lundy. Two months later and much of the music is the same. The Four Seasons are back on top. "Mr. Tambourine Man" and The Animals cover of "Bring It On Home To Me". At least they were supposedly playing some Stevie Wonder. A little position movement, but not much new since June. The lists are arranged by year. In any case, thanks to contributor Kimball Brandner, here's a photo of the medal. By 1962, the lineup included Herb Oscar Anderson, Charlie Greer, Sam Holman, Dan Ingram, Scott Muni and Bob Lewis. Sounds like an adult rock FM station. Full Story. What's interesting here is that if you compare the April 7 survey to the survey from April, 1967, there are actually somewhat fewer FM songs in 1968. Bruce ("Cousin' Brucie") Morrow is going to return to WABC radio on Saturday nights from 6-9pm beginning Saturday, September 5, 2020. 77WABC News. "Ticket to Ride", "Help Me Rhoda" and "Wooly Bully". Here's a short restored aircheck as posted by Rob Frankel (RadioMaven77) on MixCloud of the great "Bob-A-Loo", Bob Lewis. WABC-AM 770: Saturday, July 22, 1967 (35:56). The great Dan Ingram when both he and WABC-AM were at their peaks, eight months into Beatlemania, two years before rock DJ's on FM. Weekdays 6-9PM On Air Now Mark Levin Weekdays 6-9PM Show Schedule WABC WLIR Tuesday, Feb 28 Show Earlier Listing ON AIR NOW 06:00PM to 09:00PM Mark Levin Weekdays 6-9PM 09:00PM to 10:00PM Common Sense with Bill O'Reilly Weeknights 9-10PM 10:00PM to 11:59PM The Rita Cosby Show Weeknights 10PM-12AM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Her current partner Curtis Sliwa will remain in middays from 12-3 pm for the rebranded Curtis Sliwa Show.. The original Butcher cover and the re-release. Furthermore, with the rebrand possibly comes a new addition. Brian Shactman Added to Morning Team at Entercom Hartford, Key Networks Taps Deidra Hoye for Lead Sales Role, Your email address will not be published. Now instead of going through the arduous process of getting a constitutional amendment. The surveys for the week of September 1st and 29th 1975. O'Reilly, according to his attorney Fred Newman, is in . These schedules are sourced from newspapers, Radio Guide, Richard Neer's book on FM radio, personal recollections of myself and DJs and various postings on the web, especially those of Vince Santarelli. This section lists
The details include Juliet Huddy moving from middays to join Frank Marano on the 77 WABC Early News from 5-6 am. The WABC Air Personality Schedule This section lists the dates and times the WABC Disc Jockeys were scheduled for airshifts on WABC from December 7, 1960 until May 10, 1982. The mystery is why they chose the weakest of the four songs to play. It is easy to get the wrong impression that people
WABC Top Stories; 77 WABC Early News; Local; National; Sports; Entertainment; Science; WABC Radio Foundation. And isn't a marketing claim like "where the music sounds best!" the dates and times the WABC Disc Jockeys were scheduled for
It was put together by WNEW-FM's news director, Earl Bailey and features interviews with program director Rick Sklar, Bruce Morrow, Herb Oscar Anderson, Scott Muni, Bob Lewis and Dan Ingram as well as a number of great airchecks. 3:00 PM to . He began his professional career in Bermuda, where he was known as "The Hammer". Cracks me up every time I hear it. I made the case about Pennsylvanias constitution being violated because the constitution in Pennsylvania, it specifies in great detail, the only people that can vote by mail. Johnny Donovan and Steve O'Brien took turns with unusually short
A lengthy article detailing why WABC was so successful. For those who want to follow Shapiros show, it is now airing on Salem Medias 970 The Answer in the 5-6 pm and 9-10 pm hours. No reason not to move on new music faster. A survey from early January in 1963. One week later, WOR-FM would start broadcasting rock. Of course there was also pop and bubble gum. not on the air that much on WABC. However, talk show hostChris Stigall said Tuesdaythat Adams comments have been taken out of context and that he is being unfairly accused of going on a racist rant. He moved to WINZ in Miami before returning to NYC and joining WABC on August 28, 1961. Really? WABC Editorial Content Manager Lidia Curanaj follows from 4-5 pm, and Red Apple Media CEO John Catsimatidis hosts from 5-6 pm. This is just 22 days after WABC-AM officially became a Top-40 station, DJ's included Charlie Greer (in mornings), Farrell Smith, Jack Carney, Chuck Dunaway, Scott Muni, "Big Joe's Happiness Exchange" and "The All Night Satellite Show". It's legible, has the right colors and decent typography. This was 10 months after Disco KTU launched. But back then, marketing naivite made it very ethical. Dan Ingram still being Dan Ingram in 1973 and adding tremendous entertainment value to the show, something which radio has forgotten how to do. Brucie makes a big deal out of a "first and exclusive" Dave Clark 5 track called "Try Too Hard". While this show sounds dated compared to what was happening on FM by the end of 1968, WABC-AM was stil a powerhouse, achieving ratings in the 9 to 10 range. WABC is also dropping a program from its lineup. did. Champlin Broadcasting Conservative Talk The Eagle 96.9 KQOB Enid/Oklahoma City and 1640 KZLS Enid will look a little different for its listeners as the station has rebranded. The always great Chuck Leonard followed by Jay Reyolds. A really high-quality aircheck of Dan Ingram when WABC was at its peak before there was any rock on commerial FM radio. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 postings on Mixcloud. Symone coming on strong. Full Schedule. An incredibly upbeat and great sounding restored aircheck of the great Bob-A-Loo, Bob Lewis on the day the Beatles arrived in the U.S. The surveys for the weeks of February 1, 8, 15, 1971. Dylan and The Turtles. But Punk on AM? Horses, Picnics, Matchsticks, Angels & Darkness. The survey for the week of September 22, 1980. I wonder how that sounded coming out of Grank Funk Live (or vice-versa). And there's a newscast, which happens to mention the Lufthansa heist, which was the basis for the Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas". who had an "official" reason for needing the complete
MARKETING: "One of WABC's Many Faces" campaign, circa 1973. Beatles back on the chart with "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" and former Pick Hit "She's Not There" is #1. That was one of the things that was great about top-40 radio: if it was a hit, it got played regardless of genre. Any of the other three unique songs from the UK release would have been a better choice. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club is the best example. The Byrds and Simon & Garfunkle. Stern stated that hes a major fan of Morning Joe and went the extra mile to say that he and co-host Joe Scarborough share the same political idealogy. Lewis would later become a progressive DJ on WABC-FM, WCBS-FM and WNEW-FM. Schedule comments? The survey for the week of April 6, 1970. WABC-AM 770: Friday, December 27, 1968 (240:00). As the years went by, the weekend
Vic Dana singing "Shangri-La. There was no accommodation to uphold the law that allows partisan observers to observe. Maybe: the relative poor audio quality of AM radio might have been a good match for the roughness of the Punk sound. Contributed by Bernie Wagenblast via YouTube. station with respect to its air personalities, you will notice
Oddly, I agree politically with almost everything Joe says. And they claim to be playing tracks from the Concert for Bangla Desh, the Stones' Hot Rocks, McCartney, Led Zeppelin and Carole King. I really enjoy the show. I am not convinced that it was a racist rant. He would stay three years until August of 1977. In response to the controversy, Adams has maintained his stance and garnered support from individuals who oppose cancel culture, including billionaire Elon Musk. Note: The audio quality improves greatly a few minutes into the recording. The Spring and Fall 1978 ratings. "short" shift which varied from from a one hour shift
Saturday 6-10PM MiniCast On Air Now The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano Overnight 1-5AM On Air Now The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano Overnight 1-5AM More 77 WABC News Former Wide Receiver Released from Prison After 10 Years Ukraine leader pledges push for victory on war anniversary Fire breaks out at midtown hotel You could call in a news story and get paid! The station will instead feature a series of one-hour shows in the afternoon drive slot. Well, thats not how you amend a constitution by passing a law. AIRCHECK: Dan Ingram's Last Afternoon Show [mono], WABC-AM 770: Friday, November 23, 1979 (83:02). Why? He left in August of 1974 and moved to WNBC, replacing Wolfman Jack. KZLS started simulcasting on KQOB at the beginning of this year after the 96.9 signal was leased to Citadel and Cumulus Media for nineteen years. Give me a little more time to celebrate at the Psychedelic Shack because the thrill is gone. Looks like they finally decided to expand the playlist a bit to a big 34 songs. By the 25th, they're also playing "Matchbox" and "Slowdown" (sic). 13 Following. @WABCRadio. Treat her like a lady in hot pants, friend. So they went the unconstitutional route. For additional information, call 511 and say LIRR. Jus Mic (aka Mike Gaines) previously spent nearly two decades on the air in Central New York, beginning in 2000. Hempstead Branch. He left in 1977 and became an owner of numerous radio stations with Robert F.X. They're still playing "Fame". "Eight Days a Week" in its second week on the Survey and The Kinks. Were they moving too slowly on new tracks? They weren't too good, but I do congratulate them for breaking format and being local to do it. And WOR-FM was several months into the Drake format. Lennon, Led Zep, Elton, Santana, Harrison.WABC finally disovers the LP! Here's another of the WABC advertiser marketing campaigns. The survey for the week of January 18, 1969. Contributed by Rob Frankel via his RadioMaven77 postings on Mixcloud. The WABC team covers the New York, New Jersey and Long Island like no one else. To this day, I don't know what silver dollars had to do with anything. In this particular segment, we surprisingly don't hear any Beatles music except within a promo, but we do hear Dylan's "Positively 4th Street", a pretty radical recording for WABC-AM. program schedule (thanks to Jonathan Wolfert): Here is the cover side for this schedule. I guess Rick Sklar didn't know what Led Zeppelin was singing about. A message from Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch to Fox Corp. board member and former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan claimed Hannity had been privately disgusted by Trump for weeks, but was scared to lose viewers after the January 6th Insurrection. of interesting things to notice as you go through the schedules: In the early years
Here's a bit of Dan Ingram sitting in for Roby Yonge doing the annual review of the best 100 songs of the year. Cousin Brucie doing his Saturday Night Dance Party. Kirk joins WABC's lineup of conservative voices such as Greg Kelly, Rudy Giuliani, Bill O'Reilly and Brian Kilmeade. Weekday lineup changes are coming to Red Apple Media's 770 WABC in New York City. And then there was that Touchables novelty record by Dickie Goodman which I thought was very funny when I was ten years old. During his OReilly Update Morning Edition Wednesday, former cable news host Bill OReilly argued that everyone has been subject to betrayal at one point or another. AIRCHECK: WNEW-FM's Tribute to WABC [scoped - stereo], When I'm on the air, I know if the Lincoln Tunnel is crowded; I know if the guy in the tollbooth has a stomach ache; I know when Mayor Koch has a headache and I used to talk to him on the air; I know who was missing - I helped the police; I knew if a toothpaste tastes good, I'd tell people.you know that's what radio is: live and dynamic and they just didn't understand this. -- Bruce Morrow, On May 10, 1982, WABC(AM) ended it's 22-year run as a music station. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com. WABC/770 AM talk show "Common Sense with Bill O'Reilly," featuring the former Fox News commentator, will debut Monday night. In 2013, with WOR in a holding pattern, WABC's audience share has doubled and almost tripled WOR's. WOR is optimistic that will change with a mostly new lineup that also includes Elliot Segal,. In 1982, he started working primarily weekend shifts at "Oldies" WCBS-FM and stayed until 2005 when the station switched to the Adult Hits JACK format. Cousin' Brucie from the end of November, 1967 with WABC completely ignoring what was starting to happen on FM. And why exactly is he growing out of a plant? Bites" radio newsletter for contributing these lists to the
Rather than calling itself The Eagle 96.9, the radio station will now be known as Freedom 96.9 (h/tRadio Insight). Sillerman. Weeks ending September 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, 1963. Note when Bruce asks Ringo to read the inscription on a listener-designed medallion, Ringo thinks it's a promo for the station and won't mention the call-letters. OReillys insinuation that the 2020 Presidential Election was falsely reported comes at a time when his former television home Fox News is embroiled in controversy after it was uncovered that many at the network continually allowed and endorsed false claims about the election to be broadcast on the network while denying there was any wrongdoing behind the scenes. long gaps in time from one list to the next. Don't miss out on the latest local, sports, political & national news for the greater NYC area from WOR 710. Unfortnately, I was about 30 miles out of NYC at the time, the radio wasn't that great and there is a fair amount of static and whine. Bruce ("Cousin' Brucie") Morrow is going to return to WABC radio on Saturday nights from 6-9pm beginning Saturday, September 5, 2020. Catsimatidis: We have no changes planned. Red Apple Media Conservative Talk 770 WABC New York and 107.1 WLIR-FM Hampton Bays NY has announced a pair of programming changes. The surveys for the weeks of March, 1968. The station will no longer air the Ben Shapiro Show. The Beatles have fallen off of WABC's Survey. It was inevitable that the Beatles would win the music revolution. While WMCA also got some Beatle exclusives and WINS' Murray the K actually roomed with the Beatles in Miami and proclaimed himself "the Fifth Beatle", one of the reasons WABC got so much attention from the Beatles is reportedly because they thought that the "American Broadcasting Company" was the U.S. equivalent of the BBC. DePetro have been dismissed as he faced a trespassing charge related to an incident over the summer during a Monday court hearing. Longtime Syracuse Talent Jus Mic Joins WMVN (The Beat) Jus Mic joins Rhythmic CHR WMVN-FM (96.5/100.3 The Beat) in Syracuse for afternoons from 3-7pm, reports syracuse.com. Those same teeny-boppers are now 62 to 65 years old (as of 2014). "Daytripper" (sic) on the 8th. Location Duck Pond Road and Pearsall Avenue, off Norfolk Lane. Well maybe not the real reasons, but the reasons they liked to promote. Sometime between mid-February and April 1, the albums disappeared. What's also unique here is one of the first uses of wireless microphones. Prior to WFMD, he hosted an afternoon program at News Talk 103.7 FM in Chambersburg, PA. One surprise here is that the station was still playing Janis Ian's "Society's Child", a controversial song in its day about a relationship between a white young girl and a Black young man. And, from the
6:30 pm - ABC World News Tonight with Linsey Davis. Wow. situation existed from 10 PM to Midnight. "People Got To Be Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "Born To Be Wild", "Hush" - it was almost like FM. Maybe teach your children the summertime blues. NY Times: August 11, 2020. Rubber Soul, the sixth official album in the UK, was released on December 3rd, 1965 in the UK and on December 6th in the U.S. Full Schedule. Montauk Branch. Long Island Expressway or Northern State Parkway to Route 107 North Exit. If the latter, then why the disclaimer - even WNEW-FM didn't play every track from every album they chose to play. The survey for August 31st includes many tracks (with the exception of the Vogues) that a progressive rock station would be playing including some that would become part of the rock canon, such as tracks by the Rascals, the Doors, Cream, Donovan, etc. Part of that mix will include a one hour show with former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. According to NPR,Adams distributor, Andrews McMeel Universal, has also ended their relationship with the cartoonist, citing their opposition to any commentary based on prejudice or hate. It
Very tight playlista few decent songs. By this time Scott Muni had left WABC and Dan joined Brucie on the remote. Janis Ian's "At Seventeen" is the surprise track here. Through most of this
Thank God you dont play the oldDatelinesanymore on the weekends. Mama told me to get ready to save the country. Herb Oscar Anderson, Charlie Greer and Scott Muni were there at the beginning, along with Farrell Smith, Jack Carney, Chuck Dunaway and Bill Owen. Sean Hannity told lawyers during a deposition as part of the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News that he never believed former President Donald Trumps claims about the 2020 President Election being stolen. In fact, the reverse was true. Bruce would go to competitor WNBC, replacing Wolfman Jack, who was at WNBC trying to compete with Bruce. In recent months, WABC has made several changes to its weekday lineup including the addition of Charlie Kirk and former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani. Ryan Hedrick serves as the Assistant Program Director and Co-Host of the Morning News Express at WFMD. WABC Editorial Content Manager Lidia Curanaj follows from 4-5 pm, and Red Apple Media CEO John Catsimatidis hosts from 5-6 pm. Powell also told Hannity in an additional interview that Dominion voting machines were implanted with software that would change votes from Trump to Biden. Don't know if they were really playing all those albums, but Abraxas, Sly, Elton John, Joplin, Creedence, Chicago, George Harrison and Grank Funk Railroad would all be played on FM as well. Ingram also resented the fact that WABC hired someone who sounded like him (but without his quick intellect). WABC probably couldn't have competed with WKTU by going all-Disco. John Catsimatidis, CEO of Red Apple Group, and subsidiaries Red Apple Media and 77 WABC Radio, has announced that Greg Kelly has joined the station's daytime lineup beginning March 9th from the 1-3 p.m. Kelly is an experienced broadcaster and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. Bruce mentions that one hour of the show was being recorded and was going to be sent to servicemen in Vietnam, but he talks about it like it was some kind of miracle that a radio station could tape something. We originally thought this was 1971, but restorian Rob Frankel reminded us that Roby Yonge was let go in October '69 over the "Paul Is Dead" controversy.) He'll be heard over-the-air on WABC-AM 770 and WLIR-FM 107.1 in Hampton Bays and streaming on the WABC app and at www.wabcradio.com. There's also a (strange) sports segement in the middle of the show. #1 was "Eight Days a Week". Woman dragged when man steals her car as she's pumping gas. Greer, then Bob Dayton, then back to Charlie (when Bob was
The station started playing hit pop music primarily geared towards young people on December 7, 1960. Plenty to listen to and much of it became canon. Here's another of Rob Frankel's restorations as posted on MixCloud. Not much of a change from December, with "Pepino, the Italian Mouse" as the #1 song. Most of the music is actually pretty good and almost all of it, except perhaps for the Osmonds and the Jackson Five track would be heard on FM progressive rock stations: Don McLean, Al Green, Melanie, Badfinger, Betty Wright, Nilsson - even Dennis Coffey from Motown's Funk Brothers studio band is on there with "Scorpio", which became canon among musicians (and probably wasn't played on WNEW-FM). A commentary on censorship in radio by Richard Goldstein. Rick Sklar. And American "producer" Dave Dexter wanted to take credit for producing Beatle albums even though he had originally rejected releasing the Beatles in the U.S. His level of production amounting to adding unnecessary echo to the U.S. releases, making minor mix changes and taking the original 3-channel master tapes, which were never intended for stereo and making rechanneed "stereo" versions out of them. Regular Branch Timetables: Feb 27 - May 21, 2023. The Beatles chart 3x on February 1st and even "My Bonnie" makes an appearance on February 15th. They're skipping chart positions on the survey: there's no 21, 24, 27-29, 31-33, 35, 38-40, 42-45, 47 or 48 and the last track listed doesn't even get a chart position. Mailing Address 77 WABC P.O. What a mix of music! Notice also that we have caught the survey at a survey format change. This is right around the time I started collecting singles, Blue Moon and Runaway being among the first singles I purchased. None. I tune out on the weekend. An interesting marketing campaign to advertisers from around 1969. Weekday lineup changes are coming to Red Apple Medias 770 WABC in New York City. Far Rockaway Branch. I like news. Muni would leave WABC at the end of January 1965 and join WOR-FM in October of 1966 and WNEW-FM in December of 1967 and stay 31 years. Nine singles had been released in the U.S. by the time the show aired: Frankenstein only comes at night in Georgia. The second segment is actually coverage from WABC-TV. Part of that mix will include a one hour show with former New York City mayor and Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. And by today's standards, "Chubby" Checker wasn't all that fat. The Temptations are also on there with a still great-sounding track. The station will instead feature a series of one-hour shows in the afternoon drive slot. Limbaugh, who died in February, launched his national show in 1988 with WABC as the flagship station of a network that grew to 650 stations before he moved across town to rival WOR in 2014. Considering that WABC and WNEW-FM were owned by different organizations and that top-40 radio was supposedly the "enemy" of progressive rock radio, it was incredible that WNEW-FM paid tribute to WABC. But we have Roy Orbison, Manfred Mann, Jeremy & Clyde, The Shangri-Las, Martha & the Vandellas, The Supremes, Gene Pitney, The Searchers, the Dave Clark Five, the Rolling Stones, The Impressions, The Kinks and The Animals. 77 WABC - 77 WABC Radio New York's #1 News Talk Station with Bernie & Sid in the Morning, Brian Kilmeade, Rudy Giuliani, Greg Kelly, James Golden, John Catsimatidis, Larry Kudlow, Rita Cosby I cant explain it. Bob Dayton and company play a big April Fools trick on Dan Ingram as Dan is doing his show but doesn't realize he's not on the air. The title with the least longevity ("Don't Stop the Music") had been playing for a month! This is an interesting aircheck because it begins with five minutes of commercials, reports and promotions and it demonstrates that the sound of the ads was as important to the station as the sound of the DJ's and the music. These TV spots for WABC were created in 1980 by Chuck Blore & Don Richman Inc. Also included are similar spots for other stations. Bruce frantically responds, "It's not a promo!" Drive about 4 miles and make a left on Glen Head Road. Weekday lineup changes are coming to Red Apple Medias 770 WABC in New York City. That had to have been pretty boring, especially considering the short playlist. WABC Radio. The Beatles come together for the last time. 6 pm - Channel 7 Eyewitness News at 6. 77WABC News. Hmm, I think something is probably blowing in the wind. 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