[BC] Radio Station Jingles

[Alan Kline]

I do recall reading that WABC wrote a very nice check every year for the rights to those
five notes, but I didn't remember anything about litigation.  I'll have to go look later
in one of the several books about jingles that I have; I know it was discussed in at 
least one.  Might also be mentioned on the WABC tribute website...

ak

------ At 09:36 PM 1/14/2006 -0700, The Most Honourable Sid Schweiger wrote: -------
>Remember that the classic "77 WABC" melody is itself a ripoff, of "I'll
>Take Manhattan" by Richard Rodgers...a melody for which ABC paid
>Rodgers' estate quite handsomely.  I don't recall hearing if PAMS had to
>pay the estate for any other stations that used the same melody, but
>IIRC the litigation between ABC and the Rodgers estate took over a
>decade to resolve.