50 years ago this weekend, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” premiered on CBS. My Facebook feed is clogged with tribute articles that all repeat the same factoids, like how Mary Richards was originally going to be a divorcee but CBS thought viewers would believe she left Rob Petrie. Classic episodes are recalled, like “Chuckles Bites … Continue reading Love Is All Around
Most of our radio advertising clients have a “general” commercial handy. What makes a commercial “general” is that it can play any day of the year and not sound out-of-date. It’s a good thing to have handy during those little pockets of time when there isn’t a specific sale, event or promotion to advertise. Our … Continue reading Shoe Saga
Watch this video first. It will give you the recreated experience of sitting through something tedious while waiting to get the the point of the evening. The idea to write this entry in the ol’ blogski came about earlier this week. We have a new account executive at the radio station named Kody who is … Continue reading Tonight’s The Night…When I Write About… Awaaaaaaards!
I imagine everyone has their own less-than-healthy way of dealing with The Quarantine. They say alcoholic beverage consumption is way up. But I don’t drink. What I do is buy way too many books. Like, seriously, I have a pile here of six unread books. And they’re not even culturally significant books. They’re giant coffee … Continue reading Alex Trebek, Arthur Godfrey and Regis Philbin
I make a lot of commercials. I write a lot of them, I voice a lot of them, and sometimes old ones are brought back. And sometimes I forget that I did them, and they make me laugh. That’s not a sign of their quality, it’s just an indicator that the same silly things make … Continue reading “Hey Rocky, Watch Me Pull A Running Gag Out Of My Hat!”
On the July 4th weekend of 1970, a radio institution was born. Casey Kasem, a Southern California disc jockey joined with two other notable figures to create “American Top 40.” The concept, brilliant in its simplicity, was this: Every week you’ll hear the 40 most popular songs in the USA, played from 40 all the … Continue reading “And the countdown continues…”
We plan early in the radio business. But not this early. This is just me having an idea itch around my head for a few months and deciding it was time to put it to paper (or screen I guess). Every Halloween on KCOW we do a two-hour special featuring classic radio thrillers “War Of … Continue reading Is It October Yet?
So, in 2014 KCOW celebrated its 65th anniversary. We did a weeklong programming event, four hours live each afternoon for five days with Kalin Krohe, Sir Ian Nelson and me. We did two different contests that week: One was our “time machine” which was played during the morning show…I will probably do a blog about … Continue reading Alliance Retromercials
I have created another “header” for ye olde blogge…I have several of these in rotation and the new one features prominently “that Oscar-winning wabbit” Bugs Bunny. I saw Bugs and Daffy and Tweety and the gang 3 or 4 hours a week between weekday afternoons and the epic 90-minute “Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show” on Saturday … Continue reading Born 112 Years Ago This Weekend: Mel Blanc!
Hello, and welcome to a Russian doll blog post. Writing within writing within writing. This is 2020, tubby, quarantined, occasionally irritable for no discernible reason Wenty. I was watching DVDs of “Here’s Lucy” this evening (yeah, yeah, your taste in stuff sucks too) and I remembered that I met Lucie Arnaz in 2005. It’s not … Continue reading The Old Time Radio Convention (Always Try To Hook Your Audience With An Exciting Headline)
