Harry Harrison at the WABC Microphone in 1968

(courtesy Harry Harrison)

Congratulations to Harry Harrison on his election to the Radio Hall of Fame!
He will be inducted in November.

Ron Lundy, Chuck Leonard and Bruce Morrow in 1967

(courtesy Vince Santarelli)

The WABC Cruiser!

Photo courtesy of Richard Silverberg

This is a photo of a group of WABC engineers on board the "WABC Cruiser".

The boat was the idea of then WABC General Manager Wally Schwartz.
In the mid sixties he decided to impress the advertising community by
having a WABC yacht cruise the New York City waters entertaining clients.

To convince ABC corporate hierarchy that WABC radio needed its own boat,
it was decided that WABC would carry marine reports from the "new WABC Cruiser".
In actuality, the reports came from the Coast Guard.

Of course, the boat wasn't used only for impressing clients.
It was also used for contests:

Cousin Brucie Boat Ride Promo
June, 1967

Johnny Donovan Behind The WABC Microphone
(1974)

 
(courtesy Johnny Donovan)

Before Johnny began his four decade career at WABC, he was a DJ at New York's WOR-FM...

WOR-FM Rewound on Rewound Radio Labor Day Weekend!

Rewound Radio will be re-broadcasting original shows from WOR-FM all weekend long.
It's the DJ's, the commercials, and a few newscasts all in FM stereo as it was originally broadcast!

It's three days of 'OR-FM starting Saturday morning on Rewound Radio!