 Salamon first attended the CRS in 1974 where he received a hostile reaction to his then novel stance of researching music, which is commonplace today.Two years later he was invited to join their board of directors, upon which he remained until being named executive director of the organization.In 2006, Salamon was inducted into the Country Radio Seminar Hall of Fame, which cited his influence as a mentor to radio programmers and his achievement in programming the most listened to country radio station of all time (WHN).