What's the best radio or TV station swag you've gotten, either from working at a station or bought from a station's website? I really like the KSKO outdoor/indoor thermometer and shirt I bought a few years ago from Paul on the KSKO website. ABC's online store has some nice mugs, shirts and other stuff from channel 7 in LA and channel 13 in Houston
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Best radio or TV station swag?
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That's really cool, can you post a picture of them?
My boss has a set of those in his office. I'm a little jealous!
Haven't seen them in years. (Grrrrrr!) I think that might have gotten gone in one of the moves. They gave them out to affiliates but when I worked there they had a few left over.
Online or where?
That's the one. Wish I could replace them. The actual chime machine was still in use. The 4th chime was not in it.Did they look kind of like these?
There are some junior NBC chimes here:
Online
The NBC store in Burbank used to sell the NBC chimes. They might have sold them in NYC too. They also had a pin set with pins of seven NBC logos through the years. That was pretty cool. The 1954 pin shows the NBC chimes.
www.nbcstore.com
All of the networks have stores with swag. Some of them have actual brick & mortar stores. There's a big NBC store on the 1st floor of 30 Rockefeller Center in NYC. The CBS Store was inside the lobby at Television City in LA. I bought lots of stuff there. Some of it still fits! I think that store closed when CBS sold the building.
The "best" stuff? To me it's commemorative items that are dated, and are only available for a limited time.
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All of the networks have stores with swag. Some of them have actual brick & mortar stores. There's a big NBC store on the 1st floor of 30 Rockefeller Center in NYC. The CBS Store was inside the lobby at Television City in LA. I bought lots of stuff there. Some of it still fits! I think that store closed when CBS sold the building.
The "best" stuff? To me it's commemorative items that are dated, and are only available for a limited time.
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Over the years I've collected a variety of swag items, but my all-time favorite is the classic WMCA Good Guy sweatshirt. I won four(!) of them, three of which I still have. Wish they still fit, but I'm not 14 anymore, and they've been washed a few too many times. Not to mention doing an oil change while wearing one <sigh...>. But damn, growing up in the NYC area back in the '60s, that was a status symbol.
I still have the KPRS shirt I got and it still fits great more than 20 years later
Coolest t-shirt : David Eduardo had a station in Puerto Rico called the Z, and they sold t-shirts with a little cartoon Zorro guy that was really artistic. That has to be the best station logo I ever saw. I bet they sold a lot of those Zorro shirts.
Paul’s merchandise for KSKO McGrath, Alaska is also very cool. That’s a real conversation-starter, as KSKO is in a small town, but vitally important to that region. The logo of the grizzly bear with the green leaves is great, bringing in the association with the local fauna.
That does sound creative, but Zorro is from Mexican history or literature (can't recall specifically). But it's definitely not Puerto Rican culture. I wonder how well it went over on the island. (The logo, not the radio format.)
Correct ! Zorro is not Puerto Rican, but early Californian. The story of Zorro takes place in El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles, in c. 1818-1820, when California still belonged to Spain. The best known Zorro stories were done by Disney, whose incredibly popular tv series aired in 1957-58.
Maybe David can find the image of the t-shirt again. His station also had a van with the "Z" logo, that they drove around to public appearances and news events.
I enjoyed that NBC store in Burbank.The NBC store in Burbank used to sell the NBC chimes. They might have sold them in NYC too. They also had a pin set with pins of seven NBC logos through the years. That was pretty cool. The 1954 pin shows the NBC chimes.
NBCUniversal Shop | The Official Destination for NBCUniversal Merch!
Get your favorite current and classic NBCUniversal show and movie merchandise from the Official NBCUniversal Shop.
All of the networks have stores with swag. Some of them have actual brick & mortar stores. There's a big NBC store on the 1st floor of 30 Rockefeller Center in NYC. The CBS Store was inside the lobby at Television City in LA. I bought lots of stuff there. Some of it still fits! I think that store closed when CBS sold the building.
The "best" stuff? To me it's commemorative items that are dated, and are only available for a limited time.
I was bummed out when the tour (7$)
stopped around 2008.
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