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The day the music died I
« on: May 10, 2012, 05:35:29 AM »

30 years ago today, WABC-AM flipped from what I consider Hot AC to TalkRadio. All of the DJS left and wound up on CBS-FM. Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy were at the helm when the station went down at 12 noon, May 10th, 1982. Lennon had the last song on WABC.... ("Imagine"). Then after "Chime Time" and after the first jingle, WABC began talking and never looked back.

RIP MusicRadio 77 WABC!

I call this "Day the Music Died I" because of what happened in 2005 with CBS-FM (or, otherwise, WYNY in 96 or WNEW in 99).
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 05:44:59 AM »

"Talk to us, W-A-B-C..."

Here's recounts and audio from this day in 1982:
http://www.musicradio77.com/died.html
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2012, 07:10:22 AM »

Excellent post to begin with. Just a reminder that this weekend, the "DJ Hall of Fame" will focus on the last day of WABC when it was heard 30 years ago this week. I'll look forward to this when it comes on Rewound Radio. I didn't listen to WABC since I was three years old before the station flipped to talk, I was in a nursery school on Strong Pl. in Brooklyn. That was a week and a half before my parents moved to Puerto Rico at the time which is down south.
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2012, 09:02:15 AM »

Was WNNNNBC still a music station?
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2012, 09:44:02 AM »

Was WNNNNBC still a music station?

Yep! WNBC was still Top 40 on AM, when WABC flipped to talk, many listeners goes to WNBC to get their music fix, but it might stick around until a year later in July, WPLJ went to Top 40 after the "New York's Best Rock" era was over, and finally a month later in August 1983, WHTZ's "Z100" came on the air, and it was a very successful Top 40 station and it has putting the station on top. Scott Shannon, Russ Britian, Mr. Leonard and rest of the gang had a successful morning show called the "Z Morning Zoo", the longest running morning show in radio. That has been filling the void a year after WABC went to talk.
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2012, 10:12:38 AM »

You need to go to musicradio77.com and listen to the day the music died.  You will notice it was NOT Harry Harrison.  It was Big Dan with Ron Lundy.
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2012, 10:22:40 AM »

<<<30 years ago today, WABC-AM flipped from what I consider Hot AC to TalkRadio. All of the DJS left and wound up on CBS-FM. Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy were at the helm when the station went down at 12 noon, May 10th, 1982>>

Since I was hosting AM Drive and in the room at the time, here are a couple corrections:
It was Ron and Dan Ingram who did the last couple hours of MusicRadio. Harry was already doing AM's at CBS. While Ron was quickly added, Dan didn't CBS for a few more years.

Ross and Wilson continued doing AM Drive in a modified Talk/AC format (we could play 2-4 songs/hr) until Sept 82 when Ross was fired. No music was played during AM Drive (or any other daypart) after Labor Day 1982.

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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2012, 10:50:41 AM »

From Jam & WCBS-TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCthwOdTsJI
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2012, 11:00:49 AM »

exactly 30 years to the moment
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Re: The day the music died I
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2012, 01:02:23 PM »

Did anyone hear what WABC did today?
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