As early as May of 1966, two months before WOR-FM started playing rock, Bob Lewis and Dan Ingram had Saturday night shows. Billionaire supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis' media group has bought 77 WABC radio in a $12.5 million cash deal, according to an announcement Thursday. Dan Ingram spent the early days of his career jumping back and forth between radio stations on Long Island. Stream News & Talk songs online from this radio station, only on iHeartRadio.

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Throughout the 1960s and '70s, New York's WABC, a 50,000-watt powerhouse heard up and down the East Coast, was the Top 40 gold standard. Dan Ingram also worked in the cities of St Louis, Dallas and the State of Connecticut.

Listen to 77 WABC Live for Free! WABC-FM / WPLJ 95.5. It frequently alternated between simulcasting WABC-AM and playing classical music.
Enlarge this image WABC's Dan Ingram in 1981.

Hear NYC's Breaking News & Stimulating Talk, only on iHeartRadio. It started broadcasting in stereo on August 1, 1963. Many of the jingles used by WABC during its reign as a music station are legendary, and are permanently imprinted in the memories of millions of listeners. For most of the 1960s and '70s, WABC New York was one of the most dominant and influential top-40 radio stations in the history of broadcasting. However, it was the job he landed at New York’s WABC AM radio station in 1961 that lead to Dan Ingram’s legendary radio status. WABC-FM joined the airwaves on May 4, 1948.