I always liked "WWDC, Washington is someplace special".

On 25 Aug 2004 22:17:38 GMT, (Christopher C.
Stacy) wrote:

I always liked "WWDC, Washington is someplace special".

As far as I'm concerned, the all time champion is from WGTZ, Eaton,
Ohio: "WGTZ, Eaton Dayton alive!"

Mark Howell

I always liked WABC, NEW YORK AND NOW WITH THE NEWS HERE"S BOB HARDT!
OR KFRC SAN FRANCISCO!

I never got tired of hearing "Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to
.....(insert jock's name) followed by the CKLW top of the hour ID!

I'd turn the radio up til the speakers almost blew to hear how the op would
layunder some great hit like Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm
Yours.

Later, I was fortunate enough to be one of those ops in the studio of "The
Big 8" doing those layunders myself. I still turned the monitors up so loud
that I almost blew the speaker cones across the room. Never got tired of
the extreme thrill it gave me to have the top of the hour being "my set" and
place to shine.

CKLW was the best radio station on the face of the earth at the time .....
in my totally biased opinion!

Lee Smith

CKLW's IDs certainly were the best of their time, Lee. Ken R in Toledo has all
of the CK jingles on a CD....well worth the price, I might add.

Also among my fave IDs were those on WHYT/Detroit during its Hot Hits heyday
and the Hitradio incarnation, and WCZY 95.5 FM's IDs when Gannett owned it.

They just don't make catchy IDs like those anymore. Kinda sad, but that's the
way our biz is now.

John Z
Detroit

Hey Everyone,
Do any of you have them on CD? Tape? Record? Please let me know. If
anyone has any please contact me. I will be excited if you could mail
them to me.

Chris

Back in the day - stations such as 14 KQV AM and WPEZ FM often times tried to see who could out do each other.

Even WYDD and sister station of KQV - WDVE Pittsburgh's Rockers - would ID every 15 minutes or so...

Things like Cheech and Chong saying WDVE Picksburgh, or 102.5 WDVE / DVE Rocks U Rocks U Rocks U Rocks u......

WPEZ eventually becomming WBZZ and stations moving up and down the dial or going off the air entirely.

The creme always rises to the top, while the turds goes down the drain...

My favorite in the 70's was Mel Blanc and KDAY as Sylvester the cat.

"You're listening to KDAY. Yesssththth. "Kay-Day"! Sssth-th-th-
thSantaMonica! "

These two had thundering voices reading:

"The Spirit of New England, WBZ Boston, Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting"

__ oclock, Someplace Special, (instrumental of call sign jingle) 1020 KDKA
Pittsburgh, Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting.

and a local one had the local jock had to read (I/m not kidding)

AM 13 WWCH Clarion, its __ oclock, a good time for Mongs milk, fresh from
the moo to you.........


KDS

In article ,
resqchf701 wrote:
These two had thundering voices reading:

"The Spirit of New England, WBZ Boston, Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting"

__ oclock, Someplace Special, (instrumental of call sign jingle) 1020 KDKA
Pittsburgh, Group W, Westinghouse Broadcasting.

You can't forget the classic:

Anchor: K-Y-W newstime...
FX: BOOP
Anchor: ...XXX o'clock.
Stentorian Announcer Voice: All news, all the time.
Jingle singers: K-Y-W, Newsradio, 10-60
S.A.V.: From Independence Mall, this is News Radio, K-Y-W Philadelphia,
10-60 on your dial, a Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting
Station, serving Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, in
A-M stereo.

http://audio.bostonradio.org/98caaabd-b353-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg

IIRC, Mr. Stentorian Announcer Voice, the long-time imaging voice of
KYW radio and television, died this year. Not quite Jim Clancy, but
great pipes nonetheless.

All of the WINS IDs I've heard (in the modern era, anyway) were read
by the outgoing news anchor. In market #1 the station which had the
most presence in its legal ID was WCBS, as witness
http://audio.bostonradio.org/1ad39f32-af7f-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg.
(Other CBS all-newsers of the mid-90s tended to jingle.)

Unfortunately most all-news and news-talk stations these days seem to
think it's "undignified" to jingle, although I'm told KFBK in
Sacramento
(http://audio.bostonradio.org/8d336817-aecb-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg,
recorded in 1997) is still an exception, as is Milwaukee's heritage
WTMJ:
http://audio.bostonradio.org/151300c9-d2fb-11d8-b318-00904703287b.ogg.

One of my current AM favorites (in no small part because the jock is a
friend of mine) is this one from suburban Pittsburgh:

http://audio.bostonradio.org/5e05f288-0f32-11d9-8341-00904703287b.ogg

Other AM IDs I like:

WGAN: http://audio.bostonradio.org/a725990d-b9b8-11d8-a5c8-00a0cc584130.ogg
WHP: http://audio.bostonradio.org/e43540b8-ae0d-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WICC: http://audio.bostonradio.org/795fdf00-ac3e-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WPTF: http://audio.bostonradio.org/c8c5f3ba-ac32-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
CKAC: http://audio.bostonradio.org/03ff251e-b37e-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
HJJX: http://audio.bostonradio.org/aaafc718-b43a-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WBAP: http://audio.bostonradio.org/8524cdd4-b052-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WLS: http://audio.bostonradio.org/bb53a9b7-b835-11d8-b318-00904703287b.ogg
WTIC: http://audio.bostonradio.org/7691e987-af81-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WWWE: http://audio.bostonradio.org/11ab4ddc-af8b-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WBT: http://audio.bostonradio.org/3a406b86-ac30-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WOWO: http://audio.bostonradio.org/d453893e-af7e-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WTSN: http://audio.bostonradio.org/aeee4c98-b43f-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg
WNTA and WROK: http://audio.bostonradio.org/b2a4a65b-b9c0-11d8-b318-00904703287b.ogg
WINY: http://audio.bostonradio.org/3f1f4659-b7f6-11d8-b318-00904703287b.ogg
WNBP: http://audio.bostonradio.org/151655e0-d2da-11d8-b318-00904703287b.ogg

For the other 1,500 or so you'll have to poke around the site.

-GAWollman

--
Garrett A. Wollman | As the Constitution endures, persons in every
| generation can invoke its principles in their own
Opinions not those of| search for greater freedom.
MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - A. Kennedy, Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. ___ (2003)