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ANNOYING RADIO SPOT

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F.M.Hertz

As I was driving around the other day, I heard another one of the AAMCO Radio spots with "Terry, your Radio Guy in Pittsburgh." Who is Terry, and when did he suddenly become my friend "that didn't steer me wrong?"

While we're on topic, are there any spots today that make you want to hit the Scan button when you hear the first few seconds of them?

Thanks.
 
I find the UPMC spots to be quite annoying. Actually I don't care for the woman's voice. In reality, I can't stand her voice!!!! I know she is a former movie star and the mother of another one. I can't remember her name. Anyway, I hit the button everytime the spot starts.
 
The UPMC spots with PKB and her folksy voice and the Blue Cross ads with that annoying music are by far the worst on the air right now. Perhaps if they took all the advertising $$$ each of them have spent advertising 30x an hour on all media - our health care system would not be in the shape it is in right now.

ANY ad running during Penguins games on the radio. Do they only have 5 sponsors, or what? Whenever I hear any of the ads mentioned above, ANY reference to S&T bank, I immediately cringe. However, putting up with the ad repetition is still better than listening to Steigerwald on the TV side. He is awful.
 
Almost forgot, the absolute WORST radio ads. Anything dealing with Mel Sharpe and his "man on the street" ads - interviewing fake "customers" about whatever product he is pushing. More popular about 10 years ago although currently, US Cellular uses his schtick to the south and west of Pittsburgh. Be thankful US Cellular is not in this area, for their ads alone.
 
The I Heart Radio ad where they're talking to Satan and he says that Keith Moon is with him, and that he made a "special deal" with Jimmy Page. It's quite offensive and potentially slanderous.
 
Terry, the fake "radio guy from Pittsburgh", has annoyed me for several years now.
Couldn't they at least come and retain some local talent to plug their service for them?

Pretty much any ad on WBGG for gentlemen's clubs or male enhancement really irritates me.
Along with that PSA where a woman who identifies herself as an "evangelical Christian minister"
(yeah, sure...just like Terry is a Pittsburgh radio guy) pushes extreme anti-fracking and anti-coal
mining environmental positions on the basis that mercury pollution can harm the unborn, so these
positions are "pro life".

That much pretzel logic early in the morning just makes my head hurt.
 
hypwr said:
I find the UPMC spots to be quite annoying. Actually I don't care for the woman's voice. In reality, I can't stand her voice!!!! I know she is a former movie star and the mother of another one. I can't remember her name. Anyway, I hit the button everytime the spot starts.
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Blythe Danner, I believe.
 
You are correct, sir (or madam). I don't know why she irritates me so, but she does. They are second only to the 1950's Regent Pop commercials which ran on the Cordic show!
 
"...and don't ever let me catch you touching my money"...ugg...biggest tune-out out there...
 
I don't know if those ads still air, but the "Mr. Ham" ads for Hamilton, a car dealership in Irwin-or "ERRRR-win", after 1986, when Mr. Ham began to sound shrill and grating and came close to sounding like he yelled. The pre-86 Mr. Ham wasn't that way.
 
garnet said:
"...and don't ever let me catch you touching my money"...ugg...biggest tune-out out there...
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YES. And they always play them late at night. I hope no one has the radio on while they're getting busy because this spot would be a MAJOR buzzkill.
 
I almost forgot. . .

Two other spots/campaigns that I find annoying are for local automobile dealers. One is for Shults Ford with Richard Bazzy shouting "Yee-Haw" every chance he gets. Someone keep the RedBull away fom him.

Another is for the Jim Shorkey Auto group. How is having half of the commercial done over the phone an effective advertising tactic? I remember last winter when a line from one spot went something like: "It's just like that old Simon and Garfunkel song, we're slip sliding away." I called the dealership and said that the commercial was wrong and that Paul Simon recorded it, not S & G. The receptionist told me to contact the advertising agency and then hung up.

My mind is made up, I won't be buying my next car from either of these two dealerships.

Still looking for the answer to the original question: Who is Terry?
 
Why do stations run the same PSA's over and over again? I think the Fan runs 4 of them repeatedly:

Alonzo Bodden on stroke prevention
I'm home and I Love It
There's a fire, there's a fire call 9-1-1
The one where the kid keeps saying No to his Dad.
 
My least favorite commercials (and some of these may be even more prevalent on TV than on radio):

1. INVEST IN GOLD! (or silver, bronze, lead, pitchblende, etc.)
2. Ambulance-chasing lawyers of all stripes. ("Have you stubbed your toe? YOU may be entitled to
financial compensation!")
3. Ask your doctor if X is right for you!
4. Attention Medicare recipients!
5. It's the MAGIC JACK!

I'm sure there are more, but that'll do for starters.

C.
 
cingram said:
3. Ask your doctor if X is right for you!.

C.
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Those ones are not only annoying, but destructive.
There are studies out there demonstrating that an ad generated rush of people
to their doctors demanding Prescription X is a major factor in skyrocketing health care costs.
 
Pman- You beat me to it. Great call on The Fan's PSAs.

And for the life of me, I still don't know what Big Ed's Chow House PSA was supposed to be pushing. Getting your prostate checked, maybe?
 
I like Blythe Danner's UPMC spots, always have. The PKB ones were okay. I was pleasantly surprised she did a decent job on them. However, I much prefer the Blythe ones. She give UPMC a much more comforting and powerful sound.
 
All radio spots are annoying when clumped in clusters of 5 to 10 minutes in length. Most listeners just hit the preset for another station, which makes radio spots mostly ineffective.
 
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