THE QUEENS NEW YORKER EPISODE 213: THE HISTORY OF 77 WABC AM RADIO

WABC (770 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a conservative talk format known as "Talkradio 77". Owned by John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Media, the station's studios are located in Red Apple Media headquarters on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is in Lodi, New Jersey. Its 50,000-watt non-directional clear channel signal can be heard at night throughout much of the Eastern United States and Canada. It is the primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System in the New York metropolitan area and New Jersey. WABC simulcasts on WLIR-FM in Hampton Bays, New York, on eastern Long Island.[3] It is one of the country's oldest radio stations, WABC began broadcasting in early October 1921, originally as WJZ in Newark, New Jersey. From 1943 through 2007, the station served as the flagship for the original ABC Radio Network (and its direct predecessor, the Blue Network) and ABC's radio news service. While WABC has been a talk radio station since 1982, the station broadcast a Top 40 music format from 1960 to 1982. Prior to 1978, WABC was not only the dominant contemporary music station in New York City, but was also among the most-listened-to radio stations in North America, serving as a template for many other Top 40 stations around the country. PICTURE:  https://wabcradio.com/ LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzyAwZGTgAdonBKhTxUiC2Q