This
is the home of 77 WABC Radio. We're way up there on the
17th floor of
2 Penn Plaza, high above the world renowned Madison Square
Garden in New
York City.
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This
is the 17th floor entrance to WABC and what greets you when
you get
off the elevator.
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Just
down the hallway, you'll find Co-host Curtis Sliwa's poor
excuse for
an office, cluttered with milk cartons filled with newspapers.
He refuses to
use a computer. |
Right around the corner from Curtis' office is the bustling
WABC newsroom.
You're looking at a pair of edit stations where producers,
reporters and
anchors edit tape and copy.
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WABC's
morning show editor, Chris Brandimarte.
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WABC's
Don Gould taking a break from writing his sportscast for
his next
report.
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This
is former WABC intern Matt Thomas standing outside Macy's
doing some man on the street interviews. Matt just got his first paid
radio job as a traffic reporter for Metro Traffic in Dallas. |
Executive
producer Erik Hastings in the production studio recording
another
parody for the Curtis and Kuby show.
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Andre
is the call screener for the WABC morning show, which means
he screens
out nut jobs and picks the best callers, kind of like the
guy who picks the
hit records at a music radio station.
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Gene
may have one of the toughest jobs on the WABC morning show,
engineering
the sound of the program from his giant master control panel
and bay of
computers and switches. He mixes the sound, plays the audio,
orchestrates
live reports and breaking news and insures that
everything's on time. |
These
are the stars of the WABC morning show, Curtis and Kuby (aka
Curtis
Sliwa and Ron Kuby). |
That's
me, your tour guide and news guy getting ready to deliver
a newscast
full of death and destruction. |
After
a long radio show, many of us retire here to the WABC cafeteria
for a
gourmet meal prepared on a variety of high tech gadgetry.
Here you'll find a
microwave oven, mini-fridge, toaster , a sink and two hot
plates--capable
of preparing the finest of foods from around the globe. |
This
is the view from the state-of-the-art WABC master control
room looking
into the main WABC on-air studio. |
