Ed Salamon grew up in Pittsburgh
and became known as "Country radio's most influential programmer" Ed played
in a local band know as the Headliners. His group auditioned for DJ Steve
Rizen, of KQV. KQV DJ Chuck Brinkman dubbed Ed "Pittsburgh's answer to
Mick Jagger".
Ed began his radio career at age 20 as the Assistant Promotion Director and Director of Marketing Research at KDKA. There he applied methodology being used for sales research to programming, and began his first programming job as Music Director of the station. Ed was hired as Program Director
WEEP He was the first to research Country listeners' preferences, and applied
Top 40 radio formatics such as a short playlist to Country radio.
Ed went on to Program WHN in New York City. Among other career achievements, Ed formed the United Stations Radio Network with Dick Clark, He became President/Programming of The Westwood One Radio Network. Ed also became Executive Director of The Country Radio Broadcaster. He is a member of the Board of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame. Now Ed is Chief Executive Officer for the Savannah Music Group, a music publishing company and record label. Over the years Ed has been a friend of the KQV Website contributing many surveys to the KQV survey portion of the site. In 2010, Pittsburgh's Ed Salamon published
a book titled
A number of pictures featured KQV personalities as well as staff from many other Pittsburgh radio stations. The book is available at Borders.com Amazon.com, ArcadiaPublishing.com and many other locations as well. If you love Pittsburgh Radio, get the book! |