WABC Radio last day of music (WCBS-TV report)

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WABC New York was America's biggest top-40 music station for most of the 1960s and '70s. It had millions of fans, and influenced a generation of people in the radio business. At noon on May 10, 1982 the "Musicradio" format ended and WABC became a news-talk station. This is how WCBS-TV covered the event on their local newscast that evening.

The jingles used by WABC from 1963 until the present were produced by PAMS Productions (www.pams.com), and then JAM Creative Productions (www.jingles.com), both located in Dallas, Texas. This is our tribute to a legendary station. -jmw

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: May 11, 2008 at 10:25 am
Author: JAMcreative

Length: 00:04:14
Rating: 4.82
Views: 7625

Tags: WABC Radio NY 1982 Musicradio 77 WCBS-TV WNBC Downey Lundy Ingram Sklar JAM PAMS jingles

Video Comments:
carl22069 (October 14, 2008 at 10:38 pm)
Where is the commercial with the hot woman lip syncing to all the music and announcers, that was really neat!
radioman66 (October 10, 2008 at 10:50 am)
You know for a brief blip in time last year 2007 I got the chance to somewhat re-create the MusicRadio sound at a station I worked at. The owner was a big WLS fan as a kid and so we took their jingle package and did it up with heavy reverb major compession and a PHATT oldies library.I brought my WABC/WNBC Time Machine & WFIL growing up style to the table and it worked great for about 5 months,the owner buckled under pressure & switched format to Classic Rock.Have no video,but cool audio!
nutballgazette (October 4, 2008 at 3:54 am)
This was the beginning of the End Of The World!
Bring back Dan Ingram
keiichiudagawa (September 22, 2008 at 2:41 pm)
anpanman!
Bill463 (July 29, 2008 at 9:52 pm)
Gosh! I remember these folks on Channel 2! I loved growing up with WABC. Anybody remember the spotting buttons that we all wore that were given away at McDonalds? When WABC went to all talk I switched to 99X Fm, which was also fantatic at the time.
randal2477 (July 6, 2008 at 11:11 am)
PIG VIRUS!

Paul Giamatti did him a favor.
mrsmagloo (July 3, 2008 at 3:33 pm)
I feel gifted that I was able to live at the time when WABC was first playing the Beatles and Beach Boys, etc. Cousin Brucie! Dan Ingram! all the other great disc jockies! It was one of a kind. Incredible.
prausch65 (June 25, 2008 at 4:32 am)
I still own the small transistor radio I received as a gift in 1972, my first one, and will never forget listening to WABC and Dan Ingram.
USAGiant (June 8, 2008 at 11:14 am)
Now almost 30 years after WABC-AM disappera forever as a music station, radio is going through a similar change ie salelite, the internet etc.
patrickguice (May 24, 2008 at 1:43 pm)
Could you please I would love to see it. I am curious to see what WABC had to report about their own station.