Since it seems there is a lot of talk about music & radio stations in the off-topic section, I figured I'd throw this one out to the forum...
Much like how stations have shrunken down their playlists to the same 200-300 songs (especially insulting on stations which boast a 10+ year span on the music they play), corporate stations have homogenized station names or slogans so much that hearing the slogans 10 times an hour is almost as bad as hearing "Jack & Diane" (et, al) 3 times a day, 7 days a week.
What are some of the most overused radio slogans or sayings that you can't stand?
- For Example in the station ID department, it seems like EVERY city has a "KISS-FM" -- what does a "Kiss" REALLY have to do with the music on the station? And when was the last time you heard the band Kiss on a KISS-FM??
- In the slogan department, stations, like a "JACK-FM" (another overused ID) like to use a slogan that claims "We play what WE want". -- Well, duh, you sure don't play everything the listeners want, which is more than the same 300 songs day in and day out.
- And for those stations still playing "oldies", why does everyone like to use the slogan "Good Times And Great Oldies" to death? -- Some of those times in the 50's, 60's and 70's weren't all that good (Vietnam, Energy Crisis,...), nor are all the oldies they play "great".
- Finally, for any station to claim they play "The Greatest Hits of All Time", then why do they now ignore Elvis, The (early era of the) Beatles, or Glen Miller. Heck Beethoven's music has held on for how many CENTURY's now??? That slogan is the biggest lie out there.
Others?
"Commercial-free, free-form, independent radio"
Nothing to do with music, but local news station WTOP-FM is constantly and annoyingly touting its "glass-enclosed nerve center", even though us radio listeners will never see all that glass or what's therein, and it's not obvious how we benefit from the glass enclosure.
Anyone else remember "The variety is in the mix"?
"The #1 hit music station" and "(insert city)'s blazin' hip-hop and R&B" come to mind. Also, "more music, less talk".
"We turn to the *insert BS name here* weather radar *insert number here* sponsored by *insert company here* the most accurate weather radar in the *insert region here*"
Any bullshit about "commercial-free blocks" that are bookended by ten minutes of commercials. Stations like this are tube-fed gruel for the brain-dead, successful because people don't care and keep tuning in anyway.
A few more I thought of:
"Today's Hit Music"
"Today's Best Country"
"Traffic and Weather Together"
"Today's R&B and Classic Soul"
Nationwide is on your side!
oh wait :l
"Classic Rock that Really Rocks!"
*ugh*
Live!! from the -favorite sponsor here- news center!
Live!! from the -even more of a favorite sponsor here- sports desk!
Can't news radio or sports radio stations say a segment is sponsored by such-and-such company/firm without being so ridiculous?
(guess not.......)
Most music less talk.
How about the Best X Music in the (listening area).
"Tri-State"
I wonder what percentage of the U.S. live in a Tri-State DMA.
Quote from: GCrites80s on November 15, 2014, 02:01:54 PM
"Tri-State"
I wonder what percentage of the U.S. live in a Tri-State DMA.
In NJ the Tri-State thing gets annoying at times, since NJ is in at least Two tri-state areas. If you listen to PA Radio/TV it is NJ-DE-PA, if you listen to NYC it either will be NJ-PA-NY or NJ-NY-CONN.
"Every hour on the hour."
"Every hour on the half-hour."
"Traffic And Weather Together."
"Traffic (or weather) on the 8s (or 9s or whatever)."
Another music hour.
WNEW in NYC, may they rest in peace, New York's Quality Rock. However we could have given them a free pass being they were competing with K Rock at the time.
More music, less talk.
How about the "New" sound even years after the format changed. One station in Orlando has been Orlando's new sound for Hip Hop for over ten years now.
Then Tom Joyner with his "Oh oh oh, its the Tom Joyner morning show" could be now consider overused if he is still using it. I do not work at my old job anymore where 98 percent of the staff had their radios turned on to him each and every morning, so I do not know if he still uses it now, but he did overuse it my six years on the job there.
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Hot talk 560 am KSFO. It really means rant by a political Troll Host in question.
also 24/7 News by Iheartradio app only is really 15 minutes of headlines read by total traffic crew. AP and Reuters is where the headlines came from.
Wow, this thread creates an almost physical reaction akin to that experienced while being stuck as a passenger in the car of someone who listens to these kinds of stations. Make it stop!
"Tune in, and rip off the knob/dial!"...used quite a lot until the mid 1990s, when radios started losing tuning dials.
"All the Hits" - most people never see it, but the CHR/Pop chart actually tracks upwards of 150 songs from all of the "Top 40" stations nationwide. No station plays 150 current songs.
Quote from: oscar on November 14, 2014, 06:18:18 PM
Nothing to do with music, but local news station WTOP-FM is constantly and annoyingly touting its "glass-enclosed nerve center", even though us radio listeners will never see all that glass or what's therein, and it's not obvious how we benefit from the glass enclosure.
What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is (all I know without looking it up is it's somewhere in Northwest DC). It's not a very helpful expression in that respect for most listeners.
(I know where Channel 4 is located because I've been to their studios, but they don't cite their own location very often in weather reports. Channel 9 used to refer to "Broadcast House," which is on Wisconsin Avenue. I don't know if they still do that because I watch Channel 4's news instead.)
Quote from: tidecat on November 16, 2014, 02:56:03 PM
"All the Hits" - most people never see it, but the CHR/Pop chart actually tracks upwards of 150 songs from all of the "Top 40" stations nationwide. No station plays 150 current songs.
Right about that one as XL 106 in Orlando will be repeating songs within two hours of airplay.
I love it now that the Christmas season is almost here, you will hear some stations interrupt their regularly scheduled programing to bring you 24/7 Christmas songs where they will be repeating the same songs over and over and in many cases play the same song by the same artist within the hour. Example is Magic 107 in Orlando is one to play a very limited list of songs of decades of many artists all performing the songs of the season. In fact you will hear some songs played every other season and some every third or fourth season. Like Bing Crosby's Little Drummer Boy with David Bowie not played every year regularly. Maybe every two or three years you will hear it, but not like Elvis' Blue Christmas or Andy Williams Its The Most Wonderful Time of the Year which get played every year, every day, and every two hours.
I once saw a graph with the common Christmas songs on them. Basically, the Christmas music played on most radio stations and in stores hasn't evolved much since the Baby Boomers were children.
Quote from: vdeane on November 16, 2014, 03:52:13 PM
I once saw a graph with the common Christmas songs on them. Basically, the Christmas music played on most radio stations and in stores hasn't evolved much since the Baby Boomers were children.
With the exception of Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, which now remains as a classic since it was first recorded 20 years ago.
"Father Christmas" by the Kinks is more my style.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 16, 2014, 03:59:05 PM
"Father Christmas" by the Kinks is more my style.
This is one of the most covered songs by bands playing around Christmas, and that is a very good thing.
The new trendy thing I'm hearing for stations that play songs from the 60's to the 80's is "feel good hits".
Also, Christian stations have the annoying slogan of being "safe for the whole family".
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Quote from: roadman65 on November 15, 2014, 07:09:17 PM
Then Tom Joyner with his "Oh oh oh, its the Tom Joyner morning show" could be now consider overused if he is still using it. I do not work at my old job anymore where 98 percent of the staff had their radios turned on to him each and every morning, so I do not know if he still uses it now, but he did overuse it my six years on the job there.
He still uses it. I don't listen to Tom as much these days since I don't work until later in the mornings, and other competing shows, like Rickey Smiley, are on in the area.
Quote from: thenetwork on November 14, 2014, 06:03:44 PM
Since it seems there is a lot of talk about music & radio stations in the off-topic section, I figured I'd throw this one out to the forum...
Much like how stations have shrunken down their playlists to the same 200-300 songs (especially insulting on stations which boast a 10+ year span on the music they play), corporate stations have homogenized station names or slogans so much that hearing the slogans 10 times an hour is almost as bad as hearing "Jack & Diane" (et, al) 3 times a day, 7 days a week.
What are some of the most overused radio slogans or sayings that you can't stand?
• For Example in the station ID department, it seems like EVERY city has a "KISS-FM" -- what does a "Kiss" REALLY have to do with the music on the station? And when was the last time you heard the band Kiss on a KISS-FM??
• In the slogan department, stations, like a "JACK-FM" (another overused ID) like to use a slogan that claims "We play what WE want". -- Well, duh, you sure don't play everything the listeners want, which is more than the same 300 songs day in and day out.
• And for those stations still playing "oldies", why does everyone like to use the slogan "Good Times And Great Oldies" to death? -- Some of those times in the 50's, 60's and 70's weren't all that good (Vietnam, Energy Crisis,...), nor are all the oldies they play "great".
• Finally, for any station to claim they play "The Greatest Hits of All Time", then why do they now ignore Elvis, The (early era of the) Beatles, or Glen Miller. Heck Beethoven's music has held on for how many CENTURY's now??? That slogan is the biggest lie out there.
Others?
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 14, 2014, 06:12:42 PM
"Commercial-free, free-form, independent radio"
Quote from: bandit957 on November 14, 2014, 09:25:38 PM
Anyone else remember "The variety is in the mix"?
Quote from: golden eagle on November 14, 2014, 10:31:22 PM
"The #1 hit music station" and "(insert city)'s blazin' hip-hop and R&B" come to mind. Also, "more music, less talk".
Quote from: golden eagle on November 15, 2014, 12:37:35 AM
A few more I thought of:
"Today's Hit Music"
"Today's Best Country"
"Traffic and Weather Together"
"Today's R&B and Classic Soul"
I can think of a few others: "The Best Variety of Yesterday and Today", "We Play Anything", "Continuous Lite/Soft Favorites" and "The #1 At-Work Station", among others.
And "From the (insert sponsor here) Studios/News Center" can get very annoying too.
I like the sponsors on traffic reports, however I learned in Broadcast School that without that sponsor, there would be no traffic reports at all! Though Z88 in Orlando has their reports given without the aid of a sponsor because they are listener supported and rely on donations from their listeners rather than sell ads due to the nature of their programming, yet they manage to put one out many times a day because they plan for it in advance, but with hard work that the sponsors eliminate.
That may be why the Studios and News Centers take on sponsors as well. Hey it is not as ridiculous as having Geico with naming rights to a Parking Garage in Downtown Orlando.
What's really annoying is the "Now it's the (car company) traffic report, brought to you by (different car company). Let's go to X in the (car insurance company) copter."
Quote from: Henry on November 17, 2014, 11:45:27 AMQuote from: Pete from Boston on November 14, 2014, 06:12:42 PM
"Commercial-free, free-form, independent radio"
I was actually kidding. This is an almost unheard praise. It would be great if that weren't true, but it is.
Quote from: roadman65 on November 17, 2014, 11:54:16 AM
I like the sponsors on traffic reports, however I learned in Broadcast School that without that sponsor, there would be no traffic reports at all!
Decades ago, the sponsor plugs were more subtle. Either they said "Brought to you by...." or "A service of...". it flowed better and it wasn't as in-your-face as some radio and TV sponsorships are now.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 17, 2014, 11:57:23 AM
Quote from: Henry on November 17, 2014, 11:45:27 AMQuote from: Pete from Boston on November 14, 2014, 06:12:42 PM
"Commercial-free, free-form, independent radio"
I was actually kidding. This is an almost unheard praise. It would be great if that weren't true, but it is.
We have a station here that's "family owned, locally operated" with "all local contests". May be the best we can do for a larger station. There is a smaller, independent FM station in Annapolis, but I don't know their slogans because it's a bit static-y for me.
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It's long gone, but somewhere I lived had a commercial for one of those mix-of-all-the-light-hits stations that ended their format description with a woman saying "with none of the country or rap" like she was talking about trans fats and rat feces with an "ew, ick" tone in her voice. So obnoxious.
She may as well have said "Not only are we afraid to listen to people different than us, we make sure you don't have to either!"
Quote from: Laura on November 17, 2014, 01:07:28 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 17, 2014, 11:57:23 AM
Quote from: Henry on November 17, 2014, 11:45:27 AMQuote from: Pete from Boston on November 14, 2014, 06:12:42 PM
"Commercial-free, free-form, independent radio"
I was actually kidding. This is an almost unheard praise. It would be great if that weren't true, but it is.
We have a station here that's "family owned, locally operated" with "all local contests". May be the best we can do for a larger station. There is a smaller, independent FM station in Annapolis, but I don't know their slogans because it's a bit static-y for me.
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That is when (in the late 90s) Clear Channel started to take radio as we once knew it
down the hill over the cliff: When damn near every one of their stations would have what many people were fooled to believing that it was their local station's biggest contest ever!!! :spin: :clap:
Turned out each station called it what they wanted (Song Of The Day, etc...), but there would be a specific time of day when
all the stations in the whole entire CC family would make the announcement to be the Nth
nationwide caller at a special 800-number to win. :hmmm:
Of course, the odds that it would be an actual caller from that particular city listening to that particular radio station was slim to none. About 10 or 15 minutes later,
*maybe* the DJ would quickly mumble the winner's name -- but they would never give the city the winner was from because they wanted you to think it was their own local contest, which despite all the hoopla was not. :pan:
Quote from: thenetwork on November 14, 2014, 06:03:44 PM
- In the slogan department, stations, like a "JACK-FM" (another overused ID) like to use a slogan that claims "We play what WE want". -- Well, duh, you sure don't play everything the listeners want, which is more than the same 300 songs day in and day out.
The JACK-FM (KZJK) here actually has a wide range of music. I wouldn't doubt it's beyond 10,000 songs--you really never know what they're going to play. It's not uncommon to hear some obscurely picked playlist like an early Beatles song, followed by a modern White Stripes song. Absolutely no figuring out what they're going to play next, yet somehow I haven't heard anything I absolutely hate there. Good station.
Your favorite radio station/music/songs!
Umm, really? You know me so well that you know my favorites? Or are you assuming that since you're playing it, they must be my favorites.
And for contests
We want YOU to win!!!
Mmm-hmm, but you're saying that to half a million listeners. You can't possibly want them all to win.
I always love how EVERY station is #1 in their genre.
On the Kiss-FM thing, New Hampshire has two stations that are "The Wolf." Both are country too. I'm not sure if that's common nationwide.
I just keep hearing Casey Kasem's ranting complaint about having to keep saying "This is American Top 40" right after the American Top 40 jingle plays.
I never realized how common most of these were. I can think of an example of a radio station in Oklahoma City for most of these.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 16, 2014, 03:03:57 PM
What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is (all I know without looking it up is it's somewhere in Northwest DC). It's not a very helpful expression in that respect for most listeners.
I wouldn't be surprised if they simply use the temperature reported by wherever the nearest NOAA weather station is. (Even in weather-crazy Oklahoma, the temperature quoted is generally that at Will Rogers World Airport, and I doubt every station has a weather station in a little cluster next to NOAA's.)
Since the holiday season is coming up, how about "The Christmas Music Station" (which is limited to stations that are usually Adult Contemporary)? Especially since you can't escape the fact that stations playing other formats also like to play some Christmas songs here and there. For example, it should come as no surprise that many other stations start their own holiday marathons on Dec. 23 or 24, ending on the 25th.
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 21, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
I never realized how common most of these were. I can think of an example of a radio station in Oklahoma City for most of these.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 16, 2014, 03:03:57 PM
What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is (all I know without looking it up is it's somewhere in Northwest DC). It's not a very helpful expression in that respect for most listeners.
I wouldn't be surprised if they simply use the temperature reported by wherever the nearest NOAA weather station is. (Even in weather-crazy Oklahoma, the temperature quoted is generally that at Will Rogers World Airport, and I doubt every station has a weather station in a little cluster next to NOAA's.)
The all-news station in Los Angeles (KNX) talks about the temperature at their studios, but identifies it as "on the Miracle Mile." I suppose most long-time residents will know what that means, but most of the younger people I know refer to it as Mid-Wilshire.
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Quote from: Scott5114 on November 21, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
I never realized how common most of these were. I can think of an example of a radio station in Oklahoma City for most of these.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 16, 2014, 03:03:57 PM
What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is (all I know without looking it up is it's somewhere in Northwest DC). It's not a very helpful expression in that respect for most listeners.
I wouldn't be surprised if they simply use the temperature reported by wherever the nearest NOAA weather station is. (Even in weather-crazy Oklahoma, the temperature quoted is generally that at Will Rogers World Airport, and I doubt every station has a weather station in a little cluster next to NOAA's.)
The all-news station in Los Angeles (KNX) talks about the temperature at their studios, but identifies it as "on the Miracle Mile." I suppose most long-time residents will know what that means, but most of the younger people I know refer to it as Mid-Wilshire.
FOr the most part, nearly all TV or radio stations that serve the market in X city have their studio in a place that is close enough to Downtown that there would be no significant change in the weather. I.e. the weather at the studio is the same as the weather Downtown, even if the studio is 8 miles away.
You know what irks me the most is a station that brags that they are not like their competitor and then ends up joining them. WHTQ in Orlando back in the 90's when they were bragging about having no shock jocks in the morning and calling the Tuna morning show the most music unlike other radio stations (WDIZ was their chief rival and had Baxter and Mark in the morning drive time) which had shock jocks and played maybe only one song every 15 minuets, ended up syndicating John Boy and Billy Big on their morning drive soon after they went all out to brag about how they do not have jocks like them.
BTW, yes I know that John Boy and Billy Big is not their real names just like Bono is not the U2 Lead's real name, but being nobody corrects people when calling Bono as Bono, then do not correct me here.
Then the Cox Classic Rock in Tampa: The Bone was calling their Clearchannel Rival station Thunder 103 Five as playing wimpy songs by playing some of their songs in their sweepers to show that, would actually play a wimpy type of song such as Lonely Is The Night by Billy Squire which is the same MO of the songs they attack that is played by Thunder.
Incidentally both HTQ and The Bone were both Cox radio stations. That should tell you something there! Also both stations folded up as the Tampa station is playing Country while the Orlando Station is now AM talk on FM with Sean Hannity and others of that medium now being played where Classic Rock now once played.
Not knocking Talk Radio, but not praising it either here in the statement, but just pointing out that both Cox stations in two completely different Florida markets folded after their not practicing what they preach has gone on for some of their years on air.
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 21, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 16, 2014, 03:03:57 PM
What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is...
I wouldn't be surprised if they simply use the temperature reported by wherever the nearest NOAA weather station...
That's really its own overused radio routine, isn't it?
"Right now, it's 46 in Greenfield, 43 in Piketon, and here at our studios on Pine Street in Fernwood, it's 45."
A teacher of mine had been a part-time local DJ in the early '80s, and he said it was all BS (at least at the station where he worked). They had a Rolodex with pairs of town names on cards, one of which was a little to the north of the studio and the other a little south. Then they'd look at the thermometer suction cupped to the window, subtract a degree or two to for the northern town, add a couple for the southern town, and voilà –regional temperature report.
They figure that we are dumb. So who is going to challenge them with numbers.
Quote from: Scott5114 on November 21, 2014, 02:04:09 AM
I never realized how common most of these were. I can think of an example of a radio station in Oklahoma City for most of these.
Quote from: 1995hoo on November 16, 2014, 03:03:57 PM
What I find irksome about that is how their weather reports often refer to the temperature outside the glass-enclosed nerve center as if listeners are assumed to know where it is (all I know without looking it up is it's somewhere in Northwest DC). It's not a very helpful expression in that respect for most listeners.
I wouldn't be surprised if they simply use the temperature reported by wherever the nearest NOAA weather station is. (Even in weather-crazy Oklahoma, the temperature quoted is generally that at Will Rogers World Airport, and I doubt every station has a weather station in a little cluster next to NOAA's.)
I don't know, but I know usually the temperature cited for DC is the temperature reported at Reagan Airport. But WTOP usually reports that one separately from the temperature "outside the glass-enclosed nerve center," so I assume it's something different. It's interesting how the temperature here does vary a good bit within a short distance. I wonder if part of that has to do with the airport being located right on the river.
I always picture the "weather desk" or "traffic desk" is just the radio intern looking at Google Maps and The Weather Channel.
Quote from: formulanone on November 21, 2014, 02:56:54 PM
I always picture the "weather desk" or "traffic desk" is just the radio intern looking at Google Maps and The Weather Channel.
I picture Les Nessman.
I went from surprised, dismayed, and resigned many years ago when I was in Pittsburgh and the funny, interesting local radio weatherman on every ten minutes here was also the weatherman on every ten minutes there.
I actually wonder how many stations actually wait for the 9th or whatever caller. I just imagine a DJ randomly picking up the phone and saying "YOU'RE THE 9TH CALLER."
Quote from: The Nature Boy on November 21, 2014, 07:21:51 PM
I actually wonder how many stations actually wait for the 9th or whatever caller. I just imagine a DJ randomly picking up the phone and saying "YOU'RE THE 9TH CALLER."
I was once the 5th, 7th, and 9th caller in a contest. Unfortunately I needed to be 10th.
Quote from: The Nature Boy on November 21, 2014, 07:21:51 PM
I actually wonder how many stations actually wait for the 9th or whatever caller. I just imagine a DJ randomly picking up the phone and saying "YOU'RE THE 9TH CALLER."
I once worked at a once successful, independently owned & operated AM station in the midwest and we had only 1 line for requests and four lines for the business offices, in the days when most AM stations still played music. Here are some of the ways I determined the "Nth Caller":
- Honestly treat each caller coming in on the single request line as 1 caller (7th caller = the 7th time I would pick up that lone flashing line.
- Put the request line (with dial tone) on hold. After a while, the held line would drop, and the first call that came in was the Nth Caller.
- Take the phone off the hook before announcing the contest, putting the phone back on the hook a few moments after talking, and next caller would be the Nth Caller.
- Randomly skip numbers in between the 1st and Nth callers -- so the 9th caller was actually the 3rd or 4th.
- I would just go down all the lines (including the unadvertised business lines) and count those dial tones as callers en route to the Nth Caller.
BTW, nobody cared or kept track to see if we really did select the correct Nth Caller. Hell, even the FBI were in the same building as our station, and they never came to visit. It's all "theater of the mind".
Quote from: The Nature Boy on November 21, 2014, 07:21:51 PM
I actually wonder how many stations actually wait for the 9th or whatever caller. I just imagine a DJ randomly picking up the phone and saying "YOU'RE THE 9TH CALLER."
Q104.3: I've rung through (when not confronted by busy signal) and then hit with a click, silence, and a dial tone. Seems like they just click through 103 people and answer the 104th.
WSOU 89.5: They answer the phone, say "12" or whatever, and hang up. I've called back multiple times during a contest and the numbers progressed reasonably.
DHA 105.5: So many busy signals that I don't know. The one time I ever got through, I won.
WNEW, I think, fixed it that somebody on Long Island always won. I never heard a NJ resident win anything. I even tried calling even with speed dial back when only a few people had the thing and busy every time.
Many stations claim the phone system is set up to randomly pick numbers from various areas, but every time it was either Carol from Valley Stream, or Joe from Rockville Centre, or even Mike from Mount Vernon on occasion, but no one from Jersey mainly Long Island like the first two.
Relevant: http://gawker.com/5779701/your-favorite-wacky-morning-radio-show-is-a-festival-of-lies
Quote from: roadman65 on November 22, 2014, 03:37:45 PM
WNEW, I think, fixed it that somebody on Long Island always won...
It could have been a fix, but I'd be interested to hear what the NY area phone phreaks–like roadgeeks of the old electro-mechanical phone network–would have to say about it.
Something like:
"Long Island would always have the upper hand because their calls are routed through the Great Neck number 5 crossbar, which had a direct truck connection to the 33 Thomas Street switch..."
Anyone know how to get in touch with Evan Doorbell? He was from Long Island.
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 22, 2014, 04:31:28 PM
Anyone know how to get in touch with Evan Doorbell? He was from Long Island.
He was exactly who I had in mind. I sent a question through his website some time ago and got a reply, but it was from a younger guy who maintains the site, not from him directly.
Not radio-, but rather TV-related, and no station in my market uses this slogan, but "The News Leader" seems beaten to death.
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Quote from: kurumi on November 22, 2014, 04:09:54 PM
Relevant: http://gawker.com/5779701/your-favorite-wacky-morning-radio-show-is-a-festival-of-lies
I had always wondered about War of the Roses and how they were able to get that many guys to consent to be on radio, lol.
I've called in quite a few times to various morning shows and been played on the air (Z104.3, 101.9, 95.1, 93.1), mostly whenever someone calls in wanting advice on a relationship with a large age gap, lol.
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The comments section contains several winners for this topic. In acknowledgement of this, comedy writer Andy Breckman answers calls on the famous New-York-area radio show "Seven Second Delay" with "Can't believe you got through, love the show, what's your name?"
(A central part of the show, clearly, is that he's not a very good comedy writer.)
Quote from: thenetwork on November 14, 2014, 06:03:44 PM
- For Example in the station ID department, it seems like EVERY city has a "KISS-FM" -- what does a "Kiss" REALLY have to do with the music on the station? And when was the last time you heard the band Kiss on a KISS-FM??
Even in my part of the world you aren't free of the damn KISS-FM! :sombrero: The one in my hometown is at the otherwise impossible 91.6, which is explained by that the FM band in this side of the pond goes in 0.1 MHz increments, not 0.2 like in the US. (And BTW it also goes down to 87.5 and up to 108.0 as opposed to 87.9 and 107.9 respectively)
Quote from: roadman on November 25, 2014, 12:31:38 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on November 21, 2014, 04:02:05 PM
I picture Les Nessman.
Those can't be skydivers .......
God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Well-timed reference. Oh, the humanity.
one of the best sitcom scenes ever!
KUIC-FM Vacaville, CA "Your Hometown Station" slogan sounds bland and I don't know if anybody really cares if a music station is in their hometown. But if the station in question is News or a Talk station that may be different.
Quote from: briantroutman on November 22, 2014, 04:12:29 PM
Something like:
"Long Island would always have the upper hand because their calls are routed through the Great Neck number 5 crossbar, which had a direct truck connection to the 33 Thomas Street switch..."
Combined with the fact that none of the relays had a set of Fargo contacts - with apologies to
Green Acres (see the "
Oliver Takes On The Phone Company"episode)
Quote from: Laura on November 16, 2014, 09:23:46 PM
Also, Christian stations have the annoying slogan of being "safe for the whole family".
I can't tell what's worse. Christian media claiming to be safe ... or just about every other media claiming to be edgy and dangerous.
it's okay, guys - you can all be mediocre and irrelevant.
I suspected that radio was getting overly homogenized. Thanks for the confirmation. I guess.... :-/
My biggest gripe is the "2 unfunny guys/ 1 cackling girl" morning show format. Who started this, and why are they still at large?
Also, the wind chill temperature has now become the "feels like temperature". :banghead:
Quote from: misterjimmy on November 26, 2014, 10:05:23 PM
I suspected that radio was getting overly homogenized. Thanks for the confirmation. I guess.... :-/
My biggest gripe is the "2 unfunny guys/ 1 cackling girl" morning show format. Who started this, and why are they still at large?
Also, the wind chill temperature has now become the "feels like temperature". :banghead:
Agreed about "morning drive" radio, presumably so named because it's as irritating and dull as being stuck in traffic.
I think "feels like" or "RealFeel™" also factor in humidity and are not specific to wind chill.
WINS in New York used to use "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" for many years.
Power 95 that WPLJ is STILL using even after 30 years when they told us Rock Music Lovers to F Off in June of 1983 with their sudden format change.
Most music lest repetition.
We don't talk over the songs (WMMO in Orlando).
Quote from: roadman65 on November 29, 2014, 12:03:41 PM
WINS in New York used to use "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" for many years.
That slogan's now used by WNEW-FM in Baltimore/Washington.
Quote from: oscar on November 29, 2014, 01:12:00 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on November 29, 2014, 12:03:41 PM
WINS in New York used to use "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" for many years.
That slogan's now used by WNEW-FM in Baltimore/Washington.
And also KFWB in Los Angeles.
Quote from: mrsman on November 29, 2014, 09:28:01 PM
Quote from: oscar on November 29, 2014, 01:12:00 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on November 29, 2014, 12:03:41 PM
WINS in New York used to use "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" for many years.
That slogan's now used by WNEW-FM in Baltimore/Washington.
And also KFWB in Los Angeles.
Mocked in the movie
Robocop during the Mediabreaks (http://robocop.wikia.com/wiki/Mediabreak): "Give us three minutes, and we'll give you the world."
Quote from: mrsman on November 29, 2014, 09:28:01 PM
Quote from: oscar on November 29, 2014, 01:12:00 PM
Quote from: roadman65 on November 29, 2014, 12:03:41 PM
WINS in New York used to use "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" for many years.
That slogan's now used by WNEW-FM in Baltimore/Washington.
And also KFWB in Los Angeles.
KYW-1060 in Philadelphia had used it too.
KYW, 1010 WINS, and KFWB were all co-owned Westinghouse stations. According to the Wik, they also all use/used the artificial teletype recording.