BREAKING NEWS!! Dick Clark Dies At 82!

Some sad news just coming in this afternoon. Television icon Dick Clark has died of a heart attack, he was 82 years old. He got his start working in radio at WRUN in Rome, NY owned by his uncle and managed by his father where he was an office worker and eventually moved up to announcing station breaks. He went to school at Syracuse and worked at WOLF, a country music station for a short time before moving on to WFIL, a Philadelphia area radio station that would eventually give him his first big break on television in 1952 with American Bandstand. That show went on the air in 1957 on ABC and would last for 32 years before going off the air in 1989. The show was a groundbreaking success and was in a nutshell, 30 years of American life and was a pioneering achievement in merging the areas of music and television in one complete and unique package. He also helped create the American Music Awards in 1972 which was the first show to award musicians based on what the music buying public listened to. He was a total legend who changed the music world as a whole forever.