When you drive in your car (or at home), you're in the mood to listen to something on the radios and what better place is to make a thread on radio stations and their catchy jingles. I found lots of them on Youtube both audio and visual, to look at the logos of (some bygone) radio stations both on the FM and AM dials. I can remember KHJ from L.A. before they became a Spanish-language station and KCBS from San Francisco in the night hours "clear as a bell".
In Southern California radio station jingles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dYwfeLaF20
North America radio station jingles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWveOetr5-E
edit: KHJ, the top 40/pop/"soul radio" station of Southern California back in the 1960's, 70's and 80's played at 50,000 watts in evening hours heard across parts of the continent of North America. (the video I want to show you was removed).
A 20-minute montage of jingles from the legendary MusicRadio 77, WABC/New York, courtesy of Jonathan Wolfert, president of JAM Creative Productions of Dallas:
http://www.jingles.com/audio/ota/2001-WABC.mp3
A page where you can sample some of the most famous jingles in radio history from one of the most famous jingle makers, PAMS of Dallas (now owned by JAM):
http://www.pams.com/listen.html
A history of PAMS, which is basically the history of radio jingles:
http://www.pams.com/history.html
I always liked the jingles used by the CBS owned and operated stations, including these classics from the WCBS Newsradio 88 tribute site (I like all-news radio and I admit it):
WCBS ("More than just the headlines"): http://donswaim.com/wcbsradiopackage.mp3 (http://donswaim.com/wcbsradiopackage.mp3)
WCBS ("News is" from the 1970's): http://donswaim.com/Karmen-jingle-package-personalities.mp3 (http://donswaim.com/Karmen-jingle-package-personalities.mp3)
KNX ("All you need to know"): http://donswaim.com/knxnewspackage.mp3 (http://donswaim.com/knxnewspackage.mp3)
"K-Y-N-G...1420...King Of The Oregon Coast!" rang strong through the Top 40/Boss Radio era here in the Coos Bay-North Bend area. They were a 1000 watt daytime only station with no network affiliations. This was so long ago that no one has any videos to post up on YouTube. So I leave it up to your imagination to have this brightly sung jingle ring through your mind!
Today sees the 1420 AM frequency occupied by KMHS, which is a high school radio station for Marshfield and North Bend High Schools to use in teaching students about broadcast radio. They play modern alternative music. Considering that the original KYNG was youth-oriented in it's heyday, I'll call KMHS as doing well in continuing the theme. Unfortunately there are not many young people listening to AM these days. Back then it's all we had!
Rick
For the Philly/Delaware Valley area, an oldie but a goodie that still runs today:
KYW Newsradio 1060...Jingle at the end of this TV commercial from 1993:
Here some old jingles of CKLW, Windsor, Ont. Jingles blended with commercials
In Montreal, the French station CKAC used a popular jingle in the 1970s and early 1980s titled "Tout le monde le fait, fais-le donc! Écoute CKAC!" (approximate translation:"Everyone do it, do it now! Listen to CKAC!")
My addition to the radio station bumper collection from South America, the defunct Radio Chilena from Chile once blasted across South America and the Pacific in nighttime hours.
(From the 1970's):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41nunFOW_7I&feature=player_embedded#!
A more recent bumper from XEW of Mexico City, known as "W Radio" has a network of radio stations across Latin America including the USA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fivPQ8w4h_s
WLS Chicago (1971): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bJ9G07y-4
Some of these are still used on the FM station.
WCFL Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xQqOZdYJk
WLS-FM Chicago reboot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTBibKCmoQ
More WLS Chicago, from their history website: http://www.wlshistory.com/new/jingles.htm
Even more Chicago radio airchecks and jingles: http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/multimedia/audio
If you are in the Long Island Sound area, 92.1 WLNG is the king of old radio jingles and forgotten music of the 50s-70s. The air talent is still LIVE and LOCAL, unlike most other commercial stations nowadays.
KRWZ in Denver (AM 950) does a lot of old jingles, but their playlist isn't as deep.
For those outside of their respective areas, you can listen to them over your smartphone via the TuneIn Radio app.
You know one jingle that I find interesting, comical, and annoying at the same time is Tom Joyner's "Uh uh uh, its the Tom Joyner Morning Show sung by female singers with a jazz type intro and beat for the Shock Jock that is syndicated on R & B stations nationwide who is the liberal version of talk radio with a Howard Stern Robin type of co-host.
Quote from: thenetwork on April 07, 2013, 08:06:28 PM
If you are in the Long Island Sound area, 92.1 WLNG is the king of old radio jingles and forgotten music of the 50s-70s. The air talent is still LIVE and LOCAL, unlike most other commercial stations nowadays.
Being around Chicago, I find that most air talent is live and local on the commercial stations. They've tried the automated approach here to lackluster ratings, and even Howard Stern played second fiddle to the local talent.
Z88 Radio in Orlando has a real cool jingle.
KGGL 93.3 FM (known as "Eagle 93"), KYSS 95.1 FM (now 94.9 FM), KXDL 98.7 (Star FM) (now occupied by a classic contry station), KMSO Lite Rock 102.5 (now called Mountain FM), KBQQ Oldies/B 106.7 FM, KLCY 930 AM, and KYLT 1340 AM are a few stations in Missoula that I can name that ran several station ID jingles over the years. Some of them are crappy today, but back then, it was a mark of pride, if you will, to them.
Eagle 93's jingles over the years, at least that I recall:
"The Most Country Music! Eagle 93!"
"93.3! Eagle 93!"
I can't remember KYSS FM's jingles since they moved from 95.1 to 94.9 FM.
Star FM's jingle before the switch to 106.7 taking over KBQQ:
"The #1 Hit Music Station! Star FM!"
Oldies/B 106 Jingle before the Star FM takeover:
"Oldies 106.7!"
"The coolest rock and roll hits! B 106!"
KLCY and KYLT had numerous jingles over the years that I can't name off the top of my head.
I'm a big fan of terrestrial and absolutely love living to jingles of different stations. All these are great!
Quote from: roadman65 on April 09, 2013, 11:14:30 AM
You know one jingle that I find interesting, comical, and annoying at the same time is Tom Joyner's "Uh uh uh, its the Tom Joyner Morning Show sung by female singers with a jazz type intro and beat for the Shock Jock that is syndicated on R & B stations nationwide who is the liberal version of talk radio with a Howard Stern Robin type of co-host.
Tom Joyner (IMO) towers above Stern (though I got bored with Stern's routines back when he was on WWDC in Washington many years ago).
Quote from: roadman65 on April 09, 2013, 11:14:30 AM
You know one jingle that I find interesting, comical, and annoying at the same time is Tom Joyner's "Uh uh uh, its the Tom Joyner Morning Show sung by female singers with a jazz type intro and beat for the Shock Jock that is syndicated on R & B stations nationwide who is the liberal version of talk radio with a Howard Stern Robin type of co-host.
you have a runaway quote, implying that the lyrics of the song are "it's the Tom Joyner Morning Show, sung by female singers with a jazz type intro..."
I think only Garry Shandling has done something like that.
The current Los Angeles area radio market bumpers, logos and station jingles, but I couldn't find a collection of them from the Palm Springs and Riverside-San Bernardino markets. KDES of Palm Springs and KFXM of San Bernardino are mentioned in the "Southern California Radio jingles" beginning post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9927C-Ms0Z0#!
Stephane, I'm pretty familiar with French (in part, my father is from France) and I speak to my cousins despite their English is good...able to comprehend somewhat of what's being said in your French station bumper videos.
I hold an interest in TV station and network bumpers, may have to start another thread for it, and some are worth sharing.
Quote from: Brandon on April 07, 2013, 07:38:10 PM
WLS Chicago (1971): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bJ9G07y-4
Some of these are still used on the FM station.
WCFL Chicago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xQqOZdYJk
WLS-FM Chicago reboot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTBibKCmoQ
More WLS Chicago, from their history website: http://www.wlshistory.com/new/jingles.htm
Even more Chicago radio airchecks and jingles: http://chicagoradioandmedia.com/multimedia/audio
Brings back some good old memories from my childhood!
And here in Seattle, the syndicated nighttime Delilah show has some great-sounding jingles too.
There really is something WOW! about the sound of AM top-40 music radio from the 1960s and 1970s and into the early 1980s - that's when it was truly FUN to listen to!
An example, the first hour of 1978 - as broadcast on WLS (890 AM) in Chicago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzfiupsMwKk
Enjoy!
Also, don't forget the radio playing in the first few minutes of Ferris Bueller's Day Off - classic WLS!
:cool:
Mike
Quote from: mgk920 on May 14, 2013, 03:42:00 PM
There really is something WOW! about the sound of AM top-40 music radio from the 1960s and 1970s and into the early 1980s - that's when it was truly FUN to listen to!
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.
I have two radio station Antena3 (later Sinfo Radio FM in the 1990s/2000s) bumpers from Sevilla, Spain circa 1985 (notice the audio can sound garbled on 10% of the sound clip). I'm unsure the station was AM (or MW in Europe) or FM dial, but I guess Antena3 sound clips was on Shortwave (was received across Europe, the Middle East and South Asia, and the western hemisphere) or Longwave transmissions many European radio networks are on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-IylMlpc0ow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAG9m28BGyI&feature=player_embedded
Quote from: thenetwork on May 14, 2013, 08:09:30 PM
- Every station had their own modulated sound. Some tinny-sounding, some booming with ample bass.
New York's WABC (770 AM) had a great sound back when it was Top-40 and could be heard up and down the East Coast at night.
Another one of 'em radio station bumpers, this is from RadioCadena Espanola from Spain played on the air in the 1980s. Honestly, it has good music and well organized narration.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOIj38aMWvQ
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
Quote from: briantroutman on August 21, 2013, 02:04:09 AM
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.
Quote from: briantroutman on August 21, 2013, 02:04:09 AM
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.
and another station, Radio Nacional de Chile broadcasts a military march during the Pinochet regime (1980s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgnpoQxTM2Q
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).
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.
Quote from: thenetwork on May 14, 2013, 08:09:30 PM
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.
Anyone from Kentucky remember this? "Feel the power! Music power! Ninety-four-and-a-half!"
Honolulu's big Top 40 station in the 1980s was AM 830. Their jingle went, "KIKI!" (Two synthesized horn blasts.) "Hono-luuuu-luuuuu!"
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