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Cliche                            (Bolt )
** RADIO WATCHER REPORT    - L.A. **            ("Marty    'Spiff'    Kuhrt")
Long-Distance FM & TV Reception                (GREG CONIGLIO)
Re: Suburban New York City Radio News            (David A. Kaye)
Re: Station Positioners                    (Mark Wozniak, WBFO)
Station    Positioners                    (Dan Patrick)
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (David A. Kaye)
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (Paul Ryack)
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (Ellis Bromberg)
Re: any    tounge-twister calls out there?            (Mark Wozniak, WBFO)
Re: Visiting San Francisco...                (David A. Kaye)

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Subject: Cliche
From: Bolt <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Here is a challenge for all of the copy writers.

Many of the commercials on radio are full of cliches, those wonderful trite
expressions that have been used over the years. But where did they
originally come from?  What was the particular circumstance?

Yesterday I heard a spot for a particular shoe store and the line "Put
your best foot forward". Why was that expression used?

My favorite is "Pulls out all the stops" That one I think comes from the
comparison with the old pipe organs that had plugs called stops and the
more stops you pulled out the louder and more spectacular the sound, so
the tie in with advertising sales that are big etc.

What's your favorite cliche and possible first usage circumstance?


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Brian Bolt
Radio Broadcasting Program                  Phone   : [phone] X3261
Mohawk College                            FAX     : [phone]
135 Fennell Ave. West,
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada         Internet:[e-mail].
L8N 3T2                     _
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Subject: ** RADIO WATCHER REPORT - L.A. **
From: "Marty 'Spiff' Kuhrt" <[e-mail]>
Organization: NONE

Greetings from LA.

I'm currently working on getting the basic Arbitron information out of the
books and into the editor.  More on that in later messages.  I'm going to
be sending out an overview of the major stations in the LA market, with my
comments and opinions.  Hope you enjoy the overview and don't mind the
comments, too much.

Arrow 93:

A 'new' format came to town a few weeks back.  Arrow 93, which stands
for All Rock & Roll Oldies (what's the 'W' for?).  They are positioning
themselves as a station that plays "all the best oldies from the 60's,
70's and 80's, without all that annoying talk and bubblegum music".  The
calls are still KCBS-FM, which used to be head to head with K-EARTH 101
for the do-wop style oldies format.

My opinion: The jocks are as uninspiring as most of the card readers in
any market.  They do play a credible mix of 70's era rock oldies, but
run stingers/bumps/positioners between _EVERY_ song.  The bumps are poorly
produced and placed with such care that you'd swear it was automated.
One of the positioners you can't miss is the "none of the annoying chatter,
etc, etc, etc" bump which seems to be played at least 4 times an hour.
To be honest, I'd prefer the 'chatter' to the bad bumps.  The other
classic rock station in town, 97.1 KLSX, has H. Stern in the morning and
Jim Ladd at night.  Jim Ladd plays whatever he feels like and comments
on what he is playing and why, with a large dose of moral melodrama, no
extra charge.  Other than that, the rest of the KLSX staff seem just to
be old time LA radio rock and rollers, and not prone to 'chatter'.

I currently have Arrow 93 in my top 6 (to be read as: programmed into the
first six slots on my car radio) for a short trial period.  Hopefully
they'll drop the annoying bumps.  It's too much to hope that they'll get
better jocks.


Star 98.7:

It's been around for 6 months to a year.  Currently playing the "Superstars
of the 80's and 90's".  Viacom buys another station and turns the format to
pablum.  What's new.

My comment: Star is another top contender in the how-many-bumps-can-be
-crammed-into-an-hour competition that seems to be rampant in this market.
It gives me the oddest feeling of deja-vu listening to that station.  I
feel like I'm back in 1984, reading 3x5's for a Drake-Chenault XT40
automated station, where the policy was 'read outside of the cards, get a
check'.  Your last check, that is. (but @ $3.50/hr was it much of a loss?)

When they first hit the market (changed formats, whatever), some of the
jocks had personality and gave the mediorce music the right balance to
make the format, as a whole, listenable.  What I heard from insiders was
that there was a push to go union, which Viacom quelled with a purge.

Star (KYSR) used to be KEZT, which was all elevator music.  Pirate radio
was sold to Viacom, which then dumped the 'pirate' music and moved the
elevator music in.  Is Viacom Radio's corporate motto Valium Radio? Hmmmm.
Probably a good idea for Norm Pattiz, though.  (Westwood One founder and
chief muckity-muck)  He really got soaked when he bought Pirate at the very
top of the media buying frenzy that was prevalent a few years ago.  He
wanted to sell, Viacom had _lots_ of cash on hand, need I say more?

Well, it looks like my system upgrade is finally complete, so enough for
now.  I'll post more in the later days/weeks.  If you have any specific LA
radio questions, I'll answer them if I can.

Marty Kuhrt...............................internet: [e-mail]
Research Director.....................................phone: [phone]
Software Perspectives...................................fax: [phone]
990 Enchanted Way #105A..............................Simi Valley, CA, 93065

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Subject: Long-Distance FM & TV Reception
From: [e-mail] (GREG CONIGLIO)
Organization: University at Buffalo

Hello!

I have read with interest recent reports of long distance FM and TV reception.
I thought some people might be interested to know that this is a regular
phenomenon.  Here are the various causes of this and some information about
them.....

E-SKIP-this recepetion on FM and TV (channel 2-6) from 800 to 1300 miles away,
often at very strong signal strengths.  I am not positive about the fine points
but basically ionized particles in the e-layer of the ionosphere reflect thse
signals back to earth at remote distances.  This happens most often in North
ern Hemisphere in May, June, and July, around noon, and in the evening, though
it can happen anytime (just this Sunday night from here in Buffalo I had
KSWK channel 3 Lakin, Kansas), bujt I would say 90% of the activity is in the
summer.

TROPOSPHERIC BENDING-With the right weather conditions, station signals can
be extended to 400 miles or so, and under extreme circumstances, much farther.
This affects FM, and all TV channles, including UHF.  Happens most with
"stagnant" weather, high pressure, hot & humid conditions, etc. because what
causes this is temperature inversions.

There is also METEOR SCATTER, where the signal bounces off meteors as they
enter the atmosphere.  If you have ever heard a "ping" of audio from a station
for only a second or so, it was probably this!

This is a big hobby of mine, trying to pick up these distant stations. Some
summers are very good for this-I almost have heard more Texas Fm stations ehre
in Buffalo than I have New York State stations!  If there is anybody interested
in this hobby let me know!

Greg Coniglio
[e-mail]
(SUNY/Buffalo)


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Subject: Re: Suburban New York City Radio News
From: [e-mail] (David A. Kaye)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access    [phone]  [login: guest]


: >1.  WEHM 96.7 FM for East Hampton which is partially owned by Billy
: >Joel and Christie Brinkley has changed its format from AC to Adult
: >Album Alternative also known as AAA.  They are now aiming for a
: >25 to 44 audience.

Pardon my high density head here, but what exactly is Adult Album
Alternative?  The only "alternative" music I'm familiar with is stuff
which is not normally played on radio.  This lets out most "adult" music
unless they're thinking of playing polkas, orchestrion, and caliope music.

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Subject: Re: Station Positioners
From: [e-mail] (Mark Wozniak, WBFO)
Organization: University at Buffalo


In its heydey (late 60s, eraly 70s) WKBW was "One of America's two
great radio stations". Back then it meant something. Now in the
days of brain-dead programming its successor WWKB once again uses the
slogan. As for what it meant, I think programmer Jefferson Kaye (now
a voice of NFL Films) left the OTHER one to the imagination.

Or, as Jackson Armstrong once said on KB in 1971, "Somebody call
up those other guys and tell them to turn it off. They're running
up their electric bill".

I think the beginning of the end of KB as a great station was after
a management change in fall 1973, when the station became known
as "KB 15, the Great American Music Machine" (or, as we called it
then, the Late American Music Machine).

How about the Pavlovian "W-A-B-C-(bong!!)" in New York for years?
Or, "Music Radio, WABC!" and the off-key "Dan Ingram" jock shout
(Chris Berman uses it for "Mark Ingram", now a receiver for the
Miami Dolphins, formerly with the New York Giants. Great inside joke
for those who know New York radio).

Back to the old KB...in 1971, PAMS produced a jingle package that
was designed to sound like they weren't jingles, using actual
music of the time for their music jingles. KB also use the
so-called "Pop Tops", customized intros to popular songs featuring
jock names or call letters sung along to the song intros.

Long live personality radio!!!

Mark Wozniak
WBFO 88.7 FM Buffalo and WOLN 91.3 FM Olean
Full Service NPR News and Jazz from the University at Buffalo

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Subject: Station Positioners
From: [e-mail] (Dan Patrick)
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc.

Some IDs of the past....

WTYX 94.7 in Jackson, MS , when they were CHR, had the following slogans ...

Serving the South from the capital of Mississippi, we're Jackson's 100,000 Watt
hit maker, 94 WTYX Jackson.

Rockin' the Res (Reservoir) and pounding the Pearl (Pearl River), we're
flooding Jackson with back to back hits, 94, WTYX Jackson.

Rocking Sections of three states in the greater southeast and all of Central
Mississippi, We're Mississippi's most listened to Contemporary Music Station,
94.7 WTYX.

WABB 97.5 in Mobile, AL had....

Rocking the Gulf Coast, we're Mobile's 100,000 Watt Blow Torch, 97 WABB Mobile.

WQID 93.7 in Biloxi, MS had ...

Rocking the Gulf, from the tallest structure on the coast, we're WQID-FM Biloxi,
Gulfport, Pascagoula.

KTXQ 102.1 in Dallas/Ft. Worth has ...

When you hear Texas' Best Rock-N-Roll three times as good, Its got to be
Tripple Shot Thursday from KTXQ Fort Worth, Dallas, 102.1 digital, Q-102, Texas'
Best Rock

KYNG 105.3 in Dallas/Ft. Worth has ...

America's first Young Country station, MADE IN TEXAS, KYNG Dallas, Fort Worth

WBAP 820 in Fort Worth has ... (Along the lines of Clear Channel stations)

The 50,000 Watt voice of the great southwest, (jingle) WBAP Fort Worth, Dallas.


     Also, the following TV station has an interesting slogan ....

Television for the Southwest, This is TEXAS 39, KXTX Dallas/Ft. Worth

===- Dan  [e-mail] -===

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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (David A. Kaye)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access    [phone]  [login: guest]


Robert Casey ([e-mail]) wrote:
: Are there any hard to announce calls in use?  Something like KZJd, WFBL

I once worked for a KWUN (defunct now, rest its soul).  Just try
pronouncing it right the first time.  Not even the owner got it right.

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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (Paul Ryack)
Organization: Mount Holyoke College

Robert Casey ([e-mail]) wrote:
> Are there any hard to announce calls in use?  Something like KZJd, WFBL
> (which is in Syracuse, or was), WTQJ, KQPL, etc.  (just making these up
> on the fly, any really bad ones I can't think of now?).  What sort of
> combinations (non dirty-word sort) rarely get requested from the FCC?
> Also, calls like WUGH (ugh) or KYUK (yuk) probably never get used.
>
> WNQF, KHZF, WUQE....
>
How about WHAI (Greenfield, MA)?  To me, the H-A combination sounds
strange.  There used to be a WUPE (FM) in Lynn, MA.  It didn't last
very long.  I remember listening to it late one winter night, probably in
1962 or 3. They signed off, but for some reason I left my radio on.
A few minutes later, the carrier returned, and the announcer came
back on, asking for help.  His car wouldn't start in the cold, and
the station's finances were so bad that they had had the phone
disconnected to save money!  He gave the location of the parking
lot, and asked anybody listening to call AAA (or whoever) for him.
A TRUE STORY!  The station went dark not long after.

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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (Ellis Bromberg)
Organization: WILL AM/FM/TV, PBS, University of Illinois

In article <2akj0u$[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Robert Casey) writes:
>Subject: any tounge-twister calls out there?
>Also, calls like WUGH (ugh) or KYUK (yuk) probably never get used.

KYUK is the public TV station in Bethel, Alaska.  The reference is to the un-
yukky Yukon.


Ellis Bromberg                   Phone:       [phone]
Station Manager                   FAX:       [phone]
WILL-TV                       Internet: [e-mail]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Subject: Re: any tounge-twister calls out there?
From: [e-mail] (Mark Wozniak, WBFO)
Organization: University at Buffalo

In article <2akj0u$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Robert Casey) writes...
>Are there any hard to announce calls in use?  Something like KZJd, WFBL
>(which is in Syracuse, or was), WTQJ, KQPL, etc.  (just making these up
>on the fly, any really bad ones I can't think of now?).  What sort of
>combinations (non dirty-word sort) rarely get requested from the FCC?
>Also, calls like WUGH (ugh) or KYUK (yuk) probably never get used.
>
>WNQF, KHZF, WUQE....
>

Here in Western New York, there used to be WUWU-FM. They were on the
air as "
air as "WOO-WOO", which wasn't too bad, but try saying the call
letters every hour during the legal ID!
(This is W-U-W-U Wethersfield-Buffalo). The calls were changed
a few years back when the station was sold. Reportedly the
previous owner requested the WUWU calls because they sounded "neat".

Mark Wozniak
WBFO 88.7 FM Buffalo and WOLN 91.3 FM Olean
Full Service NPR News and Jazz from the University at Buffalo

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Subject: Re: Visiting San Francisco...
From: [e-mail] (David A. Kaye)
Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access    [phone]  [login: guest]


Scott D Fybush ([e-mail]) wrote:

: Yes, I'm getting out of New England and paying a visit to San
: Francisco early in November.  Any of you Bay Area radio nuts
: with suggestions for sites I just _have_ to see are invited

While visiting picturesque San Francisco, you might want to visit the KGEI
facility at Redwood Shores in Redwood City.  KGEI is a fulltime shortwave
station broadcasting mainly to Latin America.  It was built in the late
1930s by GE (hence the call) and was a demonstration project at the 1939
World's Fair.  It also has a reputation as a propaganda outlet in Spanish
to Cuba, financed by you-know-who.  They've got a nice facility and might
be inclined to take you on tour.  I've visited there before, myself.
It's right next to KNBR's xmtr, which I have not had a chance to view,
but I understand it once had a horizontal wire antenna at the site and
that the base for the other part of the antenna is still there.


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