Saturday Night Oldies

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Saturday Night Oldies is the Saturday night music show on WABC Radio in New York City.

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[edit] History of the Radio Program

WABC radio (770 AM, New York City) played rock and roll from 1960 until May 10, 1982, before changing to a talk radio format. With talk shows not quite as popular on the weekend, Tim McCarthy, WABC President and General Manager, and Phil Boyce, Operations Manager and Program Director, decided to bring back the oldies music on Saturday nights. "Saturday Night Oldies" premiered on December 3, 2005, exactly 6 months after WCBS-FM (also in New York City) dropped the oldies format on June 3, 2005.

Mark Simone hosts the show. The show features music popular music from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s with an emphasis on songs that became popular but have largely been forgotten. Original WABC jingles from the stations Top 40 era are played and the DJ takes phone calls and reads posts from the message board discussing a wide variety of events in popular culture from that time period.

The program's production crew includes Mike Gungerman, the producer, who answers the phones, and Robert Paul on the controls.

[edit] Slogans

  • "Saturday Night Oldies. What an awesome idea!"
  • "Who else could pull this off?"
  • "This is the station you grew up with. Who said you had to grow up?"

[edit] Guest Interviews

[edit] ”Mystery Deejays” (original airchecks played on the program)

[edit] External links

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