WABC 770AM - Musicradio - NYC

 

WABC 770 AM radio station licensed to serve New York, New York. The station airs a conservative talk radio format known as "Talkradio 77". 

1945, "The Blue Network" was officially rechristened the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). 1953, WJZ changed its call letters to WABC.  1958–1959, rock'n'roll disk jockey Alan Freed hosted a daily evening show on WABC, which was similar in format and musical policy to the early rock shows he had hosted on WJW in Cleveland, and later WINS in New York. 

Musicradio - 1960, WABC was committed to a nearly full-time schedule of top-40 songs played by upbeat personalities.

1982 - NewsTalkRadio 77

New York World's Fair : 1939-1940

1939–1940 New York World's Fair was an international exposition held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. The fair featured exhibitions, activities, performances, films, artworks, and food presented by 62 nations, 35 U.S. states and territories, and more than 1,400 organizations and companies. Slightly over 45 million people attended across two seasons. Themed to "the world of tomorrow" and promoted with the slogan "Dawn of a New Day", the 1,202-acre fairground was divided into seven color-coded zones and two standalone focal exhibits, with approximately 375 buildings.

NYC Foods x NYC Animals - Diana Teeter :: NYCC 2021

1.25-inch pin-back button

My primary goal as an artist is to make people smile and reconnect with all the whimsy and imagination that exists the the most idealized of childhoods. I like to use animals to convey my humor putting them in human clothes or enjoying human food.  4-button set featuring New York City animals and food. The pigeon and a pretzel, a raccoon and a hot dog, a rat and a bagel with a smear, and a squirrel with a pizza - Diana Teeter

WPLJ 95.5fm - Dr Pepper Musis Festival : 1980 NYC

1977, Dr. Pepper assumed sponsorship of the Schaefer Music Festival concert series, renamed the Dr. Pepper Central Park Music Festival, at Wollman Rink, Central Park NYC. Due to residential noise complaints, this series was moved to Pier 84 on the West Side in 1981.  In 1983 Miller Brewing Company took over sponsorship with the name Miller Time Concerts on the Pier until 1988. In 1989 Reebok took over sponsorship of the concert series at Pier 84, renamed Reebok Riverstage, which lasted through 1990.

 

WPLJ 95.5fm - New York : 1975-1983

At the start of 1968, ABC split its radio network into four distinct components, one of which was dedicated to FM radio. The following year, WABC-FM and its sister stations—KABC-FM in Los Angeles; WLS-FM in Chicago; KGO-FM in San Francisco; WXYZ-FM in Detroit; KQV-FM in Pittsburgh; and newly acquired KXYZ-FM in Houston—began carrying an automated, youth-oriented, progressive rock format known as Love.

In late 1970 ABC dropped Love and installed completely live-and-local, freeform rock formats. The network also applied for call letter changes for the seven stations. On February 13, at midnight, the station's call letters changed to WPLJ chosen after Allen Shaw noticed the letter combination as the name of a song on the 1970 Mothers of Invention record, Burnt Weeny Sandwich. The song, "W-P-L-J", was originally performed by the Four Deuces in 1955, and stood for "White Port and Lemon Juice". 1971, WPLJ pioneered the very first album-oriented rock (AOR) format, playing only the best cuts from the best-selling rock albums with a minimum of disc jockey talk.  1983, the station began a transition from AOR to contemporary hit radio. WPLJ provided pinback buttons to attendees of several concerts in the New York-New Jersey area. A practice they continued while sponsoring the Dr Pepper Music Festival