Mark Jeffries, in part: > > There's a TM package for KFRC in San Francisco in its oldies days where > the news sounder was a synthesized version of the classic Drake sounder > (KFRC was owned by RKO and thus was a Drake station, although I don't think > they used "Boss Radio"). >
It's on the 'toob <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H1OXLozHTA> (link). The news sounder is at the 2:17 mark. > > However, the Drake jingles were never heard in Chicago back in their > heyday, perhaps because CKLW was too close. WGRT, a daytime R&B station, > used the first Drake news sounder (the Hotline ringing from the "Our Man > Flint" movies) and called their newscasts "20/20 News," but didn't progress > farther (their followup news sounder was stuff taken from the demo for > Pepper/Tanner's "Now Sound" package combined with a string ostinato from > what I believe was a Percy Faith record that a lot of stations used as a > news sounder--their jingle package was P/T's "It's What Happening," which > used the same logo melody line as "Now Sound"). > > My wakeup alarm on my cellphone = that first sounder. B -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
