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

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Uploaded: May 11, 2008 at 3:25 am
Author: JAMcreative

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dann2ptf (November 22, 2008 at 7:11 pm)
I'm listening to WABC's sat nite oldies right now on a '58 Grundig
writerspells (November 15, 2008 at 10:41 pm)
Ironic. The last minute of WABC's music station was "Imagine" by John Lennon and news/talk radio with names like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity took over.
JAMcreative (November 16, 2008 at 2:08 am)
I understand the irony, but it was many years later before Limbaugh and Hannity arrived. In the beginning, WABC's talk shows were fairly mellow and not totally political. Many of them originated on the west coast and were part of the ABC Talkradio network. In fact, Ross and Wilson continued to do the morning show for a while and even played some music!
pkennyburns (October 22, 2008 at 9:47 pm)
WOW!!! PIG VOMIT!!! (at 3:10)
carl22069 (October 14, 2008 at 3:38 pm)
Where is the commercial with the hot woman lip syncing to all the music and announcers, that was really neat!
JAMcreative (November 16, 2008 at 2:17 am)
That commercial was called "Remarkable Mouth" and was created by Chuck Blore in Los Angeles. I don't believe it was ever used by WABC, but there are several of them posted on YouTube. Try searching for "Remarkable Mouth Radio" and you'll find a few.
carl22069 (November 16, 2008 at 11:17 pm)
I have seen the ones on here, this one was like from the late 70s, MAYBE '78 or '79. It was some NY station as I lived in the city. I have seen a few of them on here, but not that, its the original one.
radioman66 (October 10, 2008 at 3:50 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 3, 2008 at 8:54 pm)
This was the beginning of the End Of The World!
Bring back Dan Ingram
keiichiudagawa (September 22, 2008 at 7:41 am)
anpanman!