Comments on: Dan Ingram: SuperRadio Network Demo | 1982 (13:57) Scoped

By: Steve West

Steve West — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:26:28 +0000

I’m not sure that the industry necessarilly could see that far ahead and thus criticize and/or sabotage Superradio. Remember, we’re talking about an industry that can’t see beyond it’s nose… even things that are obvious are ignored.

By: BobTheMediaGuy

BobTheMediaGuy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:57:36 +0000

Gr8 find! Classic Ingram. Lousy idea. Where to begin?
First, the Rick Sklar/Glenn Morgan format hadn’t been working since in the mid ’70’s. The jingle package is a throwback to the 60’s and certainly NOT what WABC sounded like from mid ’70’s til signoff in ‘82. Second, this first attempt at voice-tracking every local station in the country met with huge listener and industry resistance. NABET and AFTRA correctly saw the handwriting on the wall as local jobs across the country would be decimated. In fact, NABET, one of the leading broadcast engineer unions, actively sabotaged and ultimately trashed SuperRadios’ super expensive state of the art facilities. Finally, the wit and personality of not just Ingram, but all of the SuperRadio jocks, was honed to a local market audience. What plays in NY would not and did not play in Peoria (or even in Los Angeles) and vice versa. Note Ingrams’ reference to Eyewitness News, a NY institution, but not generally known outside major markets. And he probably talks too fast with more than a double entendree or too eluding the folks in Osh Kosh B’Kosh. There’s a reason voice tracking and mass mindless programming sound the death knell for local radio louder with the release of every Arbitron book. Are you listening Clear Channel?

By: al yummies

al yummies — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:55:48 +0000

after listening to the dan ingram cut, i fully see why and how ’super radio’ failed. this stunk! it firstly was NOT that sharp, hot cutting wabc/ingram….next was the rotten watered down texture, the “bigmac” approach to programming some moron believes will appeal to the entire country, when in fact, its more of the uninteresting same old same old.
what a shame, really.
dan ingram is without a doubt the most solid jock from wabc.
hearing this seems as though (whoever produced it) is due to be dumped without an i.d. at the mall some busy weekend….

By: Brady

Brady — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:54:03 +0000

Love it! Ingram, great 80s music and what it could have been…(not another generic satellite format);)

The jingles are very much like the last WABC Musicradio jingles in sound and lyric, though seeing as Super Radio was under the ABC banner, it made sense.

By: jos

jos — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 02:05:21 +0000

Too bad – the SuperRadio Network Demo link doesn’t work for me. Can anybody send me a copy please? I’m also very interested in JAM’s Superadio Jingle Demo, the one mentioned by J.K. The DJ. Please???

By: Ron Soldano

Ron Soldano — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:20:12 +0000

I had the opportunity to interview Dan Ingram on November 23rd, 2004 on “Live”" radio.
It undoubtedly was one of the greatest moments of my life.

Ron Soldano

By: J.K. The DJ

J.K. The DJ — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:29:24 +0000

To the guy who wanted to know “…what their line-up would have been.” I have heard a couple of names on JAM’s Superadio jingle Demo. The list was a who’s who of (then) living legends: Ingram, Ron Lundy, Bob Dayton, Dick Purtan, Jay Thomas, Jack Spector, Dr. Don Rose, Larry Lujack, Robert W. Morgan and a whole slew of others. I found the jingle demo if anyone is interested.

By: Jim Severine

Jim Severine — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 20:22:08 +0000

Listening to this demo of Ingram on Superradio
was incredible. Jingles, audio chain, and ofcourse Big Dan with apparantly no formatic restraints. Man this is great radio.

By: Mark Heleniak

Mark Heleniak — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 04:00:44 +0000

ABC cancelled it’s plans to offer the satellite-fed format – not enough stations signed on to give ABC brass a comfort zone. Remember, satlellite transponder costs in 1982 were around $1000/hr in 1982 dollars … and this didn’t include the “over scale” Dan Ingram, studio and production costs, etc. Also scheduled to debut, besides Ingram and Lundy were Bob Dayton & Larry Lujack (I’ve got an aircheck of LL commenting to Tommy Edwards abt. flying out and signing the contract). Oh what could have been ….

By: joe nerney

joe nerney — Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:32:18 +0000

It would be interesting to see what their line-up would have been.