[BC] faking out the competition

[Sid Schweiger]

>>My favorite was told by Rick Sklar, who when PD at WINS, called WABC
and actually got on the air live in a fake Italian accent and was
interviewed as the POPE!  At the end of the interview the jock said
he appreciated the Pope's listening to WABC and Sklar said,
"WABC?  I'm sorry, I thought I was calling WINS.  IN New York,
EVERYONE listens to WINS." and hung up....

He played the aircheck tape at a Madison Broadcast group meeting
before he passed away a year or so later ... hi-larious,<<

Just to set the record straight:  Yes, it was a great goof...but it was pulled on WMGM, not WABC, and the person being impersonated was Charles de Gaulle.  Rick wrote about it in his book.  His fellow prankster was Tom O'Brien, later the head of ABC Radio News.  The New York World-Telegram covered it on their front page:  "Who Had De Gall To Call WMGM?"


Sid Schweiger
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