Freed's career ended when it was shown that he had accepted payola, a practice that was highly controversial at the time, resulting in his being fired from his job at WABC.

Limbaugh's radio home in New York City was the talk-formatted WABC, and this remains his flagship station ( although Limbaugh now hosts his program from West Palm Beach ).

The series, sold to many ABC affiliates ( including the network's owned and operated stations such as WABC in New York ), was produced by Goodson-Todman and distributed by Jim Victory Television, G-T's syndication partner for Concentration.

Seeing that WXYZ was the only one of ABC's radio stations making money at the time, and with a decline in listenership and far less network programming at ABC's other stations, Neal, after moving to WABC in New York to become general manager of that station, hired Mike Joseph ( later known for developing the Hot Hits format ) as Music Consultant to program contemporary Top 40 music on WABC.

When working at WABC ( AM ) as a morning-drive radio personality and doing a mid-morning television show for NBC, Kovacs disliked eating breakfast alone while his wife was sleeping in after her Broadway performances.

His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and whose job was to make breakfast for them both, then take him to the WABC studios.

A few weeks later, WABC tried again with Good Morning New York, hosted originally by Spencer Christian and Andrea Kirby ; Kirby would eventually be replaced by Judy Licht, and Christian was followed by the likes of Dick Wolfsie and longtime Eyewitness News reporter and anchor Doug Johnson.

The series returned to the NYC airways on WJZ-TV ( Channel 7 ) ( now WABC ) on Monday September 21, 1953, and was retitled Buster's Buddies !.

The show was conceived as a competitor to WABC / Disney-ABC Domestic Television's Live With Regis and Kelly, which has dominated mid-morning television since its national premiere in 1988.

ABC did not retract the story ( the WABC TV producer insisted that Skaggs had said it was a hoax to avoid prosecution ), possibly because the piece had been nominated for an Emmy Award.

One station, KOB in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fought a long legal battle against the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) and New York's WABC for the right to move from a regional channel to a clear channel, 770 kHz, arguing that the New York signal was so weak in the mountain west that it served no one.

Harrison was followed in the WABC day by Ron Lundy.

Harrison was let go from WABC as the station changed direction in November, 1979.

For example, ABC already owned WABC-TV, 77 WABC and WABC-FM ( now WPLJ ), and so could continue to own all three stations after the law was passed.

Godfrey eventually moved his base to the CBS station in New York City, then known as WABC ( now WCBS ), and was heard on both WJSV and WABC for a time.

Though Freed's spot was briefly occupied by Bruce Morrow, who later became known as Cousin Brucie on WABC, Murray soon was moved into the 7-11PM time period and remained there for the next seven years, always opening his show with Sinatra and making radio history with his innovative segues, jingles, sound effects, antics, and frenetic, creative programming.

The station was the most listened to AM radio station as well as the most listened to news / talk radio station in the country, beating out WABC in New York City and WSB ( AM ) in Atlanta.

After John R. Gambling's edition of the show was dropped, he moved to WABC, where he hosted a late-morning show until January 2008 ; he returned to WOR mornings in May 2008.

Among his early career stops was a stint as morning man at New York City top-40 station WABC ( AM ) when it first adopted a pop music format in 1960.

Even though WMCA had a signal in about one-third the ratings area of WABC, it still showed up # 1.

This is basically because anywhere WMCA had a listenable signal, the audience strongly chose WMCA over WABC.

WABC, with its 50, 000-watt non-directional signal, had the advantage of being heard in places west, south, and northwest – a huge chunk of the suburban population – and this is where the station began to draw ratings.

This would be consistent with WMCA's 5, 000-watt directional signal, although WMCA had the benefit of a lower frequency than WABC.

WABC could be heard in the New London / Waterford area of Connecticut, but there was always a slight squeal in the signal due to the nearly 125-mile distance.

After then-sister station WEPN became the Jets ' flagship, WABC began simulcasting the games over their airwaves due to its stronger signal.

Because of WEPN's limited signal, all Jets games once were simulcast on WABC, which reaches more of the suburbs.

In response, WABC began using deejays playing recorded music in greater frequency.

Because 770 is an FCC-defined clear-channel frequency occupied by fulltime station WABC in New York City, it couldn't be used by other stations at night ; as daytime-only stations, WCAL and KUOM each broadcast an average of about six hours per day.

The station has broadcast on the AM band at 770 kHz since the 1920s, but is subject to clear channel restrictions on that frequency and shuts down at night, in order to protect New York City's WABC and KKOB in Albuquerque.

KOB was involved in a 38-year-long dispute with New York City station WABC ( originally WJZ ) over the use of the 770 kHz frequency.

In 1941, WABC moved to the frequency it currently occupies, 880 kHz, and changed its call letters to WCBS on November 2, 1946, to identify more closely with its parent network, the Columbia Broadcasting System or CBS, and avoid possible confusion with the rival network of the American Broadcasting Company which had begun operation in 1943.

However, in the late 1960s and 1970s, top 40 rock and roll stations in the U. S. and Canada such as WABC and CHUM transmitted highly processed and extended audio to 11 kHz, successfully attracting huge audiences.

WABC ( 770 kHz ), known as " NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC " is a radio station in New York City.

( This station has no relation to the longtime American Broadcasting Company 770 kHz flagship station that began in 1921 as WJZ, and has operated as WABC ( AM ) since 1953.

Some of the most famous Top 40 stations have been Musicradio 77 WABC / New York City, Boss Radio 93 KHJ / Los Angeles WLS / Chicago, 1050 CHUM / Toronto, Famous 56 WFIL / Philadelphia, and The Big 68 WRKO / Boston.

In 1988 Limbaugh began broadcasting his show nationally from radio station WABC in New York City.

Former music stations such as KLIF, Dallas, Texas ), WLW ( Cincinnati, Ohio ), WHAS ( Louisville, Kentucky ), WHAM ( Rochester, New York ), WLS ( Chicago, Illinois ), KFI ( Los Angeles, California ), WRKO ( Boston, Massachusetts ), WKBW ( Buffalo, New York ), and WABC ( New York, New York ) made the switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band.

During Louchenheim's brief regime, Columbia paid $ 410, 000 to A. H. Grebe's Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the network's flagship station.

This set off a flurry of renaming ; to avoid confusion, CBS changed the call-letters of its New York flagship, WABC 880, to WCBS in 1946.

In 1953, WJZ in New York and its sister television station took on the abandoned call-letters WABC and WABC-TV.

Neal also hired Dan Ingram to host the afternoon time period and hired Bruce " Cousin Brucie " Morrow to host early evenings on WABC.

On Memorial Day 2007, WLS took a cue from sister station WABC and ran a special day of musical programming, " The Big 89 Rewind ," featuring live visits from Larry Lujack, Tommy Edwards, Fred Winston, Chris Shebel, Jeff Davis, John Records Landecker, Tom Kent, and other D. J. s, sounders, and airchecks from the Musicradio era.

On January 3, 2012 Rivera began hosting a weekday radio talk show on WABC ( AM ) in New York.

Both Free Radio and Gold ( formerly Radio WABC ) have broadcast since 1976 from transmitter sites from Turner's Hill in neighbouring Rowley Regis, with the studios being located in Wolverhampton.