 Additionally WHN was named Billboard’s Station of The Year in 1980 and 1981.In 1981, Salamon formed The United Stations Radio Network with Dick Clark and other former Mutual executives, where he created programming, which was carried at one time or another by nearly every County station in America, including “The Weekly Country Music Countdown” and “Dick Clark’s Rock, Roll and Remember”, both of which were still on the air 25 years later.In 1985, United Stations acquired the RKO Radio Network  and in 1989, it merged with Transtar Radio Networks to form Unistar, where Salamon served as President of Programming and hosted his own weekly series, “The Stories Behind The Song” in addition to live network interview specials with Garth Brooks and Alabama.