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michael hagerty said:
It was Neil Ross (“Natural Neil”) on KYA, and their signal was not terribly good that far north.
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Have you read his book? I just learned he’s been a voice actor on Transformers and lots of other shows and done station imaging too, what an interesting life he’s had:
www.neilbook.com

NEIL ROSS

How does a kid who survives the rain of V-2 rockets on London in the waning years of World War II, end up in Hollywood announcing the Diamond Jubilee of Oscar? Veteran Hollywood voice actor Neil Ross...
www.neilbook.com
 
radiofan2023 said:
Have you read his book? I just learned he’s been a voice actor on Transformers and lots of other shows and done station imaging too, what an interesting life he’s had:
www.neilbook.com

NEIL ROSS

How does a kid who survives the rain of V-2 rockets on London in the waning years of World War II, end up in Hollywood announcing the Diamond Jubilee of Oscar? Veteran Hollywood voice actor Neil Ross...
www.neilbook.com
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I hadn’t! Thanks for the tip! I know Gene preceded Randy Thomas as the voice of the Oscars for many years.
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
I hadnt thought about that.... i worked in a diary market.. Olean, NY ... and our breaks were 20, 35 and 50... with news at 01 and no spots after it
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Yeah, that used to be a pretty common pattern -- I remember hearing breaks in those positions as far back as 1977 on an automated Top 40 station in Tacoma (KNBQ). As the station developed and starting selling more spots, they would also put in a break at :05. And both patterns were pretty common across multiple stations in multiple markets well into the eighties.

I think that the motivation for that pattern was that stations got credit for the quarter hour as long as a listener recorded at least five minutes of listening within that quarter. Thus, if someone recorded that they'd listened to KNBQ from 2:25 to 2:35, the station was credited with two quarter hours. But if they recorded listening from 2:30 to 2:40, it only counted as a single quarter hour of listening.
 


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