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5 unusual facts about WABC-TV


Edward Burger

He has delivered more than 400 lectures worldwide and has appeared on more than 40 radio and TV programs including ABC News Now on WABC-TV in New York and National Public Radio.

El Show de Renny

While on one of his breaks in 1960, Renny Ottolina hosted an English language program on the New York City television station WABC-TV.

WABC

WABC-TV, a television station (channel 7) licensed to New York, New York, United States

WJZ

WABC-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/digital) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which used the call sign WJZ-TV from 1948 to 1953

WNYJ-TV

The channel 66 allocation in the New York City area originally began operation in 1970 as W66AA, which served as a repeater for WABC-TV channel 7.


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Alfred H. Grebe

) He set up a broadcasting company called the "Atlantic Broadcasting Corporation" (changing WAHG to WABC on November 1, 1926) which operated his stations until he sold them to CBS in January 1929.

Bayway Refinery

The refinery has had and continues to have environmental issues; a 2010 investigative report conducted by WABC-TV, the ABC flagship station in New York City, characterizes the Bayway Refinery as a "repeat offender" of environmental regulations.

Chuck Leonard

During his over 40-year career in broadcasting, Leonard worked virtually every shift and played all styles of music at stations including WWRL, WABC, WXLO, WRKS, WBLS, WQEW, WNSW-AM and WJUX.

Classic Gold WABC

WABC's inaugural Breakfast show on 15 January 1989, was presented by Mark Edwards, who kicked proceedings off with Frank Sinatra's Nice 'n' Easy, a song which it was felt would reflect the feel of the station, and which was used as its strapline.

Clayton Williams

During the campaign, Williams publicly made a joke likening rape to bad weather, having stated: "If it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it" (the statement had previously caused controversy amongst women's groups over the same statement by basketball coach Bob Knight, and caused WABC-TV weatherman Tex Antoine to be fired after saying that sentence, ironically, on a weather report after a story about a child rape).

Cyndy Garvey

From 1983 to 1984, she was Regis Philbin's co-host on The Morning Show on WABC-TV in New York City, a show which later became the nationally syndicated Live! with Kelly and Michael.

David Novarro

His producer credits include the Morning Show with Regis Philbin at WABC-TV,Two on the Town with Leeza Gibbons & Rob Weller and music video show Hot Tracks.

Direct support professional

Direct Support Professional training and community placement/living became more prevalent following the Willowbrook State School scandal where it was uncovered following an investigation by then WABC journalist Geraldo Rivera, that residents were being physically mistreated and kept in poor living conditions.

DXing

By the 1950s, and continuing through the mid-1970s, many of the most powerful North American "clear channel" stations such as KDKA, WLW, CKLW, CHUM, WABC, WJR, WLS, WKBW, KFI, KAAY, KSL and a host of border blasters from Mexico pumped out Top 40 music played by popular disc jockeys.

Green Acres Mall

In the early days of the mall, WMCA `Good Guys' would broadcast from the mall as would WABC.

Jersey's Talking

Leonard worked previously for CBS Sports’ The NFL Today, NBC Sports, ABC Talk Radio, WNBC-AM, WABC-AM, WNEW-TV’s Midday Live and Sports Extra, and CNBC.

Joe Crummey

Geraldo Rivera took over Crummey's 10 a.m. slot effective January 3, 2012, with regular WABC fill-in hosts Bernard McGuirk and Mark Simone substituting in the interim.

Johnny Donovan

With the assistance of Peter Kanze, Rob Frankel and Allan Sniffen, he produced the annual, now defunct, WABC Rewound program each Memorial Day.

Michelle Charlesworth

She was recently on a long list of WABC-TV reporters in line to replace fired Eyewitness News This Morning co-anchor Steve Bartelstein.

Partridge Family 2200 A.D.

(During a February 2, 2008 New York radio interview with Mark Simone on WABC's Saturday Night Oldies show, Shirley Jones, who played mother Shirley Partridge on the live-action series, apparently was never even told of the show's existence and had no recollection of any animated version of the series ever being produced.)

Paul W. Smith

In Toledo, Ohio, Smith began his career hosting both radio and TV shows, and he has hosted programs on the New York City stations WABC and WMCA.

Rocky Allen

The move was designed to complement WABC's non-political morning talk lineup of Art Bell and Laura Schlessinger.

Ron Lundy

The first one was in an early scene in Midnight Cowboy, when Joe Buck, hearing a Lundy WABC broadcast while listening to his portable radio, realized that the bus he was riding soon approached New York City.

Sade

Sade Baderinwa, the WABC-TV Eyewitness News correspondent and anchor

Steve O'Brien

O'Brien has worked at several stations, including WCBS-FM, WABC, WMGQ, WPLJ and WIBG.

Tamara Holder

Holder is a frequent radio guest on WABC’s “Hannity” and guest co-hosted the show on December 26, 2012, with Bernard McGuirk.

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

WABC

WPLJ, a radio station (95.5 FM) licensed to New York, New York, United States, which formerly used the call sign WABC-FM

Why Leave Astoria?!

Since its inception, WLA has been featured locally in the NY Daily News, Gothamist, New York Magazine, NY1, Metro International, WPIX, and WABC.


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