Radio station jingles

[The High Plains Traveler]

I used to do a lot of AM radio surfing after dark, looking for the clear channel stations from far away. From my driveway in suburban L.A., I could hear WLS (Double-U L-S...In Chicago). I could also hear WCCO in Minneapolis (no jingle I remember). It surprised me when I moved to Minnesota that I didn't get East Coast stations, though I could pick up New Orleans.

[Desert Man]

From the former East Germany was Radio Berlin International in the 1970's on shortwave. From a time when the Berlin Wall was up and Germany was divided into 2 nations, the station broadcasted a news program in English like many shortwave radio channels to be heard globally. State-controlled by the East's communist regime, RBI aired commentary critical of the United States and capitalism. German reunification in 1989-90 brought an end to RBI with its' final on-air words: "Take care and good luck". 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYJ6jjbkO3k

[Desert Man]

And there's still a shortwave station available over North American airwaves: Radio Havana Cuba, continues to be a state-sponsored mouthpiece of communist propaganda. I only have the intro jingles of the English-language broadcast, so sit tight. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJOYSJ5mzQ

[briantroutman]

I've been casually DXing AM radio since I was four (back in the '80s). Though most of the music and talk I listen to these days is either played off a local drive or streamed from the Internet, there's still something special about picking up distant AM stations–especially at night. For me, AM radio goes hand-in-hand with roadgeeking.

Anyway, if you're a fan of either Don Imus, Howard Stern, or the former 66 WNBC in New York, you might enjoy this jingle demo reel from the early '80s.

http://bit.ly/16uLyTC

Imus introduces the package (mentioning Kevin Metheny, who's infamous in Stern circles), Stern is featured in a top-of-the-hour legal ID, and the reel goes through a lot of interesting variations for transitioning between different track tempos (slow to medium, fast to slow, etc.). The recording sounds as good as original master reel-to-reel.

[Desert Man]

I fished this oldie but goodie thread, likes to add more to it.

Defunct Radio Chilena jingle (1990s)...screams in bright red.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUiPZunChdo

An excerpt of Radio Chilena (undated) broadcast across the thin, but large country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NESqxTXkiKI

[Stephane Dumas]

Jingle in French of the late AM station CKCH-970 of Hull circa 1972
https://youtu.be/dZcd5afF6dM

CKAC, 1982 the jingle "Tout le monde le fait, fais-le donc" (Everyone do, do it) was used by CKAC and all AM radio-stations then Telemedia owned in Quebec for a decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwW2MDU-9_E

[roadman65]

Music Radio WABC was the jingle for WABC in the early 70's.

Then the old WNEW AM (Not the rock FM, but the 40's music AM and talk station back when Ted Brown, William B. Williams, Gene Clavin, and Julius LaRosa were air wave personalities of the 60's and 70's) had this:
Nice things happen to people, who listen to Radio Eleven Three Oh in the Metropolitan Area, Double U N-E Double US, everywhere with a big band grand outro.

[Desert Man]

Radio Chilena's news program intro theme song (sounds so midcentury, 1950's).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7TwryOkz9E

Y mas desde (and more from) Radio Chilena, this is a sports program from the 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9sO4ELYkY4

And the radio station gong, once can be heard across Latin America (i.e. Brazil), sometimes as far away as Australia, Tahiti, Spain, and the US (south FL and southern CA) at night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MALVYOUobU8

[roadman65]

I've been casually DXing AM radio since I was four (back in the '80s). Though most of the music and talk I listen to these days is either played off a local drive or streamed from the Internet, there's still something special about picking up distant AM stations–especially at night. For me, AM radio goes hand-in-hand with roadgeeking.

Anyway, if you're a fan of either Don Imus, Howard Stern, or the former 66 WNBC in New York, you might enjoy this jingle demo reel from the early '80s.

http://bit.ly/16uLyTC

Imus introduces the package (mentioning Kevin Metheny, who's infamous in Stern circles), Stern is featured in a top-of-the-hour legal ID, and the reel goes through a lot of interesting variations for transitioning between different track tempos (slow to medium, fast to slow, etc.). The recording sounds as good as original master reel-to-reel.

AM Radio went dead when car manufactures starting making FM Radio a norm, rather than an accessory back in the early 80's.

In Orlando only talk radio is on half the dial, and the 1200 and up is all Hispanic music and talk.  Even with the former Cox Media Group began bringing AM WDBO to FM when they pulled the plug on Classic Rock WHTQ to win the younger demographics to listen to Clark Howard and Sean Hannity.  So basically to an extent AM radio is just barely surviving and it would be more dead in my market if Orlando did not have a high Latino population to patronize the upper AM dial with their ethnic shows.

[BamaZeus]

I've been casually DXing AM radio since I was four (back in the '80s). Though most of the music and talk I listen to these days is either played off a local drive or streamed from the Internet, there's still something special about picking up distant AM stations–especially at night. For me, AM radio goes hand-in-hand with roadgeeking.

Anyway, if you're a fan of either Don Imus, Howard Stern, or the former 66 WNBC in New York, you might enjoy this jingle demo reel from the early '80s.

http://bit.ly/16uLyTC

Imus introduces the package (mentioning Kevin Metheny, who's infamous in Stern circles), Stern is featured in a top-of-the-hour legal ID, and the reel goes through a lot of interesting variations for transitioning between different track tempos (slow to medium, fast to slow, etc.). The recording sounds as good as original master reel-to-reel.

That brings back some memories.  I used to listen to Imus in the morning, then Stern after school.  Imus once hung up on my father, but knowing my father, he probably deserved it.

[Desert Man]

and another station, Radio Nacional de Chile broadcasts a military march during the Pinochet regime (1980s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgnpoQxTM2Q

[Desert Man]

Update on the local radio market (Palm Springs area): KPSI 920, KWXY 1340 and KPTR 1450 all news-talk stations went off air, but on the FM Dial KRCK-2 98.1 is where these programs might moved to. KFWB 980 from L.A. switched to Spanish, the signal clashes with 990 Spanish oldies from Mexicali, its main competitor is 101.1FM. And 3 new FM stations "X" 97.1, "Q" 102.3 and "CV" 104.3 are classic rock or alternative music genres. "The Jack/The Oasis/Kool" 95.9 had nickname and call letter changes, not sure they will keep it as it is. And finally, I receive Indian or Indo-caribbean music on 1620 AM, one of L.A.'s many ethnic stations (like Radio Iran 670 in Farsi and Radio Korea 1450 AM).   

[dvferyance]

I thought WRVA in Richmond has a catchy jingle for the traffic. I am not sure if it's part of a song or not if anyone knows anything about it that would be great.

[bandit957]

6 Reasons why listening to Top-40 AM was neat back then.

-  "Hearing" the lightning static when storms were in the region.
-  How the weaker & distant stations would fade-in and fade-out on the dial at night.
-  You could choose from one set of AM stations in the day, and another set of AM stations at night.
-  Never knowing what kind of static you'll hear (if any) when you pass under the next set of high-tension power lines.
-  Every station had their own modulated sound.  Some tinny-sounding, some booming with ample bass.
-  It made your "records" sound different, since AM radio could never process every sound from a record.

Whenever I buyed a record after hearing it on the radio, it usually sounded slow. I think it's because a lot of stations sped up their music slightly.

[bandit957]

Anyone from Kentucky remember this? "Feel the power! Music power! Ninety-four-and-a-half!"

[hm insulators]

Honolulu's big Top 40 station in the 1980s was AM 830. Their jingle went, "KIKI!" (Two synthesized horn blasts.) "Hono-luuuu-luuuuu!"

[Desert Man]

An American briefly lived in Seoul, So Korea has recorded AM/Medium wave radio stations - parts 2 he received signals from Japan & 3 from China. Since 2012, Russia & 15 other European countries abandoned AM and Norway itself dropped FM. Internet radio is the future of (esp first) world broadcasting. In Europe, Longwave is another form of AM, but it's in decline and shortwave too, used to be you get the BBC from London on it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMMQlhylrA&t