WABC (AM)
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WABC is a commercial AM radio station licensed to New York, New York and the flagship of John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Media. The station airs a conservative talk radio format known as "Talkradio 77".
Original WJZ Newark studio. The microphone is the horizontal cylinder located at the upper right.
The nightly "Man in the Moon" bedtime stories were a popular early feature.
Beginning in May 1923 the WJZ studios and towers were located (along with WJY) at Aeolian Hall in New York City.
Early broadcast chains for WJZ and WEAF, 1926
Blue Network
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The Blue Network was the on-air name of a former American radio network, which broadcast from 1927 through 1945.
WABC (AM)
…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…
NBC networks, 1933
Advertisement placed by the Enna Jettick Shoe Company promoting the appearance of Sir Harry Lauder on its NBC Blue program, December 1, 1929. Note that the text implies that the NBC Blue, NBC Orange (West Coast) and NBC Red networks were all participating in the broadcast.
Advertisement advertising the debut of the Lux Radio Theatre, which had a brief run on NBC Blue in 1934–35 before moving for a long run on CBS.
This 1944 advertisement for KATE in Albert Lea, Minnesota, while it dates from after the sale by NBC of the Blue Network, shows how the Blue Network continued to have access to NBC facilities; in this case, the famed radio studios at Rockefeller Center in New York City.