Salamon Writes The Book On Country Radio In NYC

Archer Books announced this week that it will publish WHN: When New York City Went Country by Ed Salamon on February 25th, 2013 to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the radio station’s switch to country music the following day.

The book tells the story about how the Park Avenue radio station reached a #2 position in the New York ratings and became the most listened to country music station of all time during its fifteen years in the format. WHN broadened the definition of country music and introduced new artists and sounds to the format, while at the same time its exposure of country records in New York helped country music cross over to pop radio.

The book is based on interviews with former WHN staffers and country artists as well as the personal experiences of the author, who was WHN’s program director for more than six years. The book also includes more than forty photographs of WHN air personalities and of country music stars at WHN.

Former WHN Personality (1979-1987) Dan Taylor, now mornings at WCBS-FM NYC, says: "No one is more qualified to tell the story of WHN than Ed Salamon".

Salamon was inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2006.

On Monday, February 25th, Hill Country Live, 30 West 26th Street, New York, N.Y. will celebrate with a WHN reunion including a panel of WHN air personalities moderated by Salamon. Admission is free. The WHN reunion panel features DJs Lee Arnold and Alan Colmes, Hill Country Live Director Jessie Scott.

On Tuesday, February 26th, WFDU 89.1 will broadcast a live on air reunion of WHN personalities from 9:00 am -3:45 pm.

For those outside of the New York area, the broadcast will be available on streaming audio at www.wfdu.fdu.edu.