{"id":17163,"date":"2024-08-16T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/?page_id=17163"},"modified":"2024-08-17T23:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T23:49:59","slug":"matt_craig","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/matt_craig\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Craig"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WEDNESDAYS<\/em><\/strong>
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New York’s Best Rock with <\/span>\n Matt Craig.<\/em><\/strong>\n
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What is New York’s Best Rock? \n
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Depends on who you ask. It doesn\u2019t seem possible today, but in the early to mid 70s, the AM band was the dominating force in radio. In fact, it wasn\u2019t until 1973 that the US Government mandated that all new cars had to\n be sold with both AM and FM tuners. AM Radio was dominated by tightly programmed music stations that played the same top 40 songs all day. Many songs repeated as frequently as every 45 minutes! So, those of us music\n fans who grew up during that time were hungry for more than just those 40 records repeated over and over. In the New York Metro area, we were lucky to have a radio station whose slogan was \u201cNew York\u2019s Best Rock\u201d. They\n featured deep album tracks from rock bands of the time.<\/p>\n

It was around that time that album sales started to eclipse singles sales. New York\u2019s Best Rock, an \u201cAlbum-Oriented-Rock\u201d (AOR) station was certainly one of the forces behind that shift. For the first time, we could hear an alternative\n to the hit songs off an album on the radio. They featured deeper album tracks, and it was a tremendous success. So much so, that if you ask anyone of a certain age what New York\u2019s Best Rock was, they can still tell\n you all these years later. It wasn\u2019t just the music, it was also the DJ\u2019s. Those who presented this music were stars themselves. It wasn\u2019t unusual for John Lennon or Elton John or other big acts of the day to stop\n by the studios and chat with them when they were in town.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever, and in 1983, New York\u2019s Best Rock was no more. Today, over 40 years later, New York\u2019s Best Rock hasn\u2019t been forgotten! Magic Matt Craig was one of those fans who grew up in the shadow\n of New York City listening and loving this great radio station, and it certainly had an effect on his musical tastes. Matt never forgot those heady days, and now, all these years later, he\u2019s taken his obsession for\n it and turned it into his own weekly radio program. No, it\u2019s not the original station, there\u2019s no way to duplicate that, instead, it\u2019s Matt\u2019s vision of what New York\u2019s Best Rock could have been if it lived on beyond\n 1983.<\/p>\n

Matt Craig graduated from the New Institute of Technology with a BFA in Communication Arts. He worked at WGLI-AM and WNYG-AM, both in Babylon, NY. His career path veered into sales, until he retired in 2021. From 2004-2005, he\n hosted \u201cStudio 108\u201d on WEBE 108 in Bridgeport, CT. He has hosted New York’s Best Rock since 2020. He also has the premiere aircheck collectors website, www.bigappleairchecks.com which has been up since 2002. Matt lives\n on Long Island with his wife, daughter and 3 cats.<\/p>\n

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Magic Matt Craig WEDNESDAYS9:00 p.m.New York’s Best Rock with  Matt Craig. SATURDAYS  10:00 a.m.New York’s Best Rock with Matt Craig .  What is New York’s Best Rock?  Depends on who you ask. It doesn\u2019t seem possible today, but in the early to mid 70s, the AM band was the dominating force in radio. In fact, it wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17163"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17341,"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17163\/revisions\/17341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haltonhillsonline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}