Radio Stories – Moving Two Radio Stations

The ABC Cube looking south in front of 1330 Ave of the Americas

In mid March of 1985, it was announced that Capital Cities Communications had officially launched a bid to buy the American Broadcasting Company. Capital Cities who?? That was the general reaction to this news on the 8th floor of the ABC Building where 8 of us promptly went out to lunch, at which we consumed 8 carafes of wine! This unthinkable event had hit us very hard, and little did we know it would affect us all even more down the road!

On January 3, 1986, the American Broadcasting Company officially became ABC/Capital Cities, and shortly after that, the plans to move the ABC Headquarters to West 66th Street and to sell the long time ABC Headquarters building became public knowledge. Located across 53rd Street from CBS Headquarters and just…