Brother Love Offed
NEW YORK—The ABC network of FM stations, long the bane of the progressive rock radio scene with its douse Love format, is making all sorts of moves in the right direction. They’ve hired Larry Yurdin, formerly head of the Alternative Media Project (CREEM, Vol. 2, No. 14) as national production director for the entire group of stations and are busy making plans to move towards more community orientation in several key areas.
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Brother Love Offed
NEW YORK—The ABC network of FM stations, long the bane of the progressive rock radio scene with its douse Love format, is making all sorts of moves in the right direction. They’ve hired Larry Yurdin, formerly head of the Alternative Media Project (CREEM, Vol. 2, No. 14) as national production director for the entire group of stations and are busy making plans to move towards more community orientation in several key areas.
ABC owns stations in New York, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles and farms out its syndicated programs to places like Peoria, Illinois, Muncie, Indiana and San Diego, Calfiornia.
The syndication of various shows does continue, though WXYZ in Detroit, for example, features 10 hours a day of live programming now whereas before none of the station’s broadcasting had been done live and very little had been locally done.
In the case of WXYZ, as well, there seems to be a strong move towards involving people who are part of the city’s hip/rock community. Peter Werbe of the Fifth Estate presently hosts a Sunday evening show with guests and so does longtime beatnik writer Hank Maline. In addition, Jerry Lubin now does a daily show on XYZ, moving from WABX (still definitely the power in the market) after an alleged feud with music director Dave Dixon. Lubin was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying that he and Dixon just couldn’t get it on anymore. “Dave wants to have the most successful station in Detroit and I want to have the best station and the most successful,” Mike Gormely quoted Lubin as saying.
Nationally, ABC plans to have syndicated programs sent out by Murray Roman, comedian and former Smothers Brothers writer, Tony Pigg, formerly of KSAN in San Francisco., Dave Herman formerly of WMMR in Philadelphia.
