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Don Imus-WNBC-New Years 1972-AFRS

wow...he's been being not funny for nearly 40 years.

pretty amazing that they used to play contemporary music on am radio and also that mcdonalds didn't serve breakfast.
 
McDonald's was serving breakfast back to the mid 60s - maybe just not the New York area franchisee.

Then again, Manhattan was the last place in the country get McDonald's at all and that was around 1976. About the same time Horn and Hardart was turning Automats into Burger Kings.

WABC played contemporary music until 1981. WNBC had music for a few years after that but by the mid 80s, Imus and Howard didn't play many records and a midday all-request show was dropped for Soupy Sales.
 
FWIW: There was a McDonald's in my area (upper east side) by early 1974, it's still there.


Most of Imus' prank calls were set-ups.

WABC played music 'till May 1982 though by then it was more of a AC than Top-40.

WNBC was had a music format 'till Oct. '88 when it bacame WFAN. The IMUS show did continue with a fair amount of music but cut back after he mentioned that the station now had a more restricted music license agreement. Copyright strikes again.
 
anyone know of any existing footage of IMUS PLUS, the short lived saturday night TVtalk show that don did for metromedia in the very late 70s?(channel 5 in new york)
 
SUPERCASTER said:
Here is the link:
http://airchecks.podomatic.com
Click to expand...


...where the hell is the aircheck? There's nothing to play or download at the page you link to as of 3:19 A.M. Eastern on March 31st...

...if the prank call being discussed is one where Imus calls a McDonald's to get 1200 hamburgers for his Air National Guard troops, that was done when he was still at KXOA in Sacramento in 1970. RCA Victor, then co-owned with NBC, put out an album of Imus bits in 1972 and made that the title track...
 
You need to have javascript turned on to download it, and they intentionally obfuscated the download link do you'd have to manually decode it in order to get around that. That makes me think there's likely some malware involved.
 
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