Epilogue from ROCKING AMERICA by Rick Sklar

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English

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Senior (55+)

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North American (General)

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I left W ABC in March 1977 with the station still Number one of the ratings, having been promoted to vice president of programming of ABC, is Radio division WNBC passed into other hands, and for the first time in 15 years, I was no longer picking the music or calling the shots. In October of 1978 W, ABC dropped almost to share points in a single rating book and lost its standing as the market leader to a new FM station, W K T you that it come on the air during the summer with the format based on the then new disco craze. After the audience loss, WNBC is dis jockey lineup in music policies were modified and additional changes were made. Over the next four years, the ratings continued to decline in the market situation. That's all music audiences tuning to FM for their radio entertainment. By the winter of 1983 W ABC was down to a 3.8 share in the New York ratings. In May of that year, music Radio W ABC changed formats and became talk radio W ABC. Some of its new programming came from a satellite distributed Talk Network, on which I had just completed development work for ABC. The impact of Music radio W ABC cannot be summed up in a corporation's profit and loss statement to the listener. Radio is personal During the dozen years of its heyday. W. ABC It's music and his air personalities became an intimate part of tens of millions of people Mornings without Herb Oscar Andersen or Harry Harrison afternoons without Ron London or Dan Ingram. Evenings without Cousin Brucie were unthinkable to W ABC listeners. These voices were friendly, they were family, and the songs that they played were so popular that they became the national hit Music for America, hundreds of tunes that everybody knew and could sing their appeal across every demographic barrier, whatever their ages.