Thanks for the correction. Wow! What talent they signed up for a Saturday morning cartoon! Jonathan Winters, Paul Frees, Stiller & Meara, in addition to Reiner and Leonard. I'm guessing there must have been some hilarious, off-color, off-mic "alternate takes" done during the sessions in which the dialogue was recorded.
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Commercials that were common then but are rare today.
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Thanks for the correction. Wow! What talent they signed up for a Saturday morning cartoon! Jonathan Winters, Paul Frees, Stiller & Meara, in addition to Reiner and Leonard. I'm guessing there must have been some hilarious, off-color, off-mic "alternate takes" done during the sessions in which the dialogue was recorded.
They're making up for it with car insurance ads now. and there are plenty other senior insurance ads on just about every cable network or OTA subchannel I watch.
Pantyhose commercials! I miss them for obvious reasons.
Joe Namath?
Forgot about that one. OK. That'll be my one exception.
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Sometimes. A lot of the spots I see are 10 second spots for radio stations that buy newscasts from the TV station. "Get updates from Eyewitness News every morning on WQQQ Oldies 99.9".
I think the most recent 30-second ad for a radio station I've seen was for 95.9 DUKE FM in Terre Haute, IN over the holidays last year.
Even though I don't really watch much TV here in Denver the few radio ads I had seen in the past several years were more/less just 10 to 15 second spots promoting some contest. The KOA one was an exception,
Looking back the 70s and 80s was probably the peak of local radio ads on TV as some were so memorable. Buffalo's WKBW radio had the little old lady dancing with some of KB's well known jocks to the Bee Gee's Night Fever. Another one I can remember was for Baltimore's WFBR-AM 1300. A man running on the beach with his head phones tuned into WFBR playing Donna Summer's On The Radio only to bump into a woman wearing a bikini.."13 WFBR...Baltimore's almost perfect radio !!". Oh and the ad showing Pittsburgh area commuters singing along to the oldies on 3WS...I think a number of oldies stations in the 80s were doing similar commercials to this however but still it was well done.
In MInneapolis both ABC & CBS do
ABC is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting which also owns 3 radio stations here (among other areas) and they have commercials for KSTP FM (KS95) along with "listen to Dave Dahl's forecast on My Talk 107.1 (or KSTP ESPN AM1500)" commercials
CBS is O&O and during the noon and 5PM news they do a 5 minute cut-in with co-owned WCCO AM 830 folks about what "the big talker is about"...I think in the morning show time they talk to KMNB "Buzzn 102.9" (Country station they own) in the same way as they do for WCCO AM...they also have promos for radio personalities on 830.
One of my favorite examples is auto rustproofing places. They were an absolute mainstay of broadcast advertising
at one time. Today, due to changes in automotive technology I'm not sure they even exist.
at one time. Today, due to changes in automotive technology I'm not sure they even exist.
That category must have been really regional to areas with harsh climates or other such conditions. I don't recall ever running ads for that category, but I was almost always in markets like San Juan, Miami, Tallahassee, Birmingham, Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, etc.
I wonder if such advertising was limited to markets where roads were salted to melt winter ice?
Probably. They used to be all over the airwaves in the Midwest.
I know someone who worked in research at US Steel in the 70's.
They were frantically trying to find a way to get paint to stick to galvanized steel.
While they were playing with that the Japanese beat them to the punch by coming up
with a way to galvanize just one side of a piece of steel.
Goodbye, Rusty Jones!
They were frantically trying to find a way to get paint to stick to galvanized steel.
While they were playing with that the Japanese beat them to the punch by coming up
with a way to galvanize just one side of a piece of steel.
Goodbye, Rusty Jones!
I recall one prolific advertiser in this category: Ziebart. I saw their ads in Indiana up until the late 90s. It turns out the company still exists, but does more auto glass, truck liners, sunroof installations, and so on.
They still do where I live, mostly around ratings periods (we're still diary). When I lived in Quincy, IL I saw a ton of spots for podunk small town radio stations (especially on KTVO-3, Kirksville MO/Ottumwa IA. Seemingly every little station in NE MO and SE Iowa had a TV spot.
Chances are those were tradeouts for KTVO advertising on the radio stations. Small town radio stations typically don't spend money on TV spots.
Lyndon Larouche used to have half hour ads, and so did Ross Perot.
IIRC, So did George Wallace in 1968.
About CBS radio when we had moved to Denver back in 2007 CBS still owned a few radio stations in Denver. KOOL 105, KIMN MIX 100 and 92.5 The Wolf. Oddly enough there are still those in Denver today who still believe those three stations are still part of CBS Radio even though CBS hadn't own those stations in years heck some actually call the high rise on Colorado Blvd. where those stations are located the "CBS Tower" even though by the time those radio stations had moved into the building CBS Radio had already sold their Denver radio stations and KCNC is still located on Lincoln dating back to their KOA days. Looking back other than the KCNC CBS 4 ( still CBS O&O ) sports guy doing sports for KOOL 105 I just don't remember CBS Radio Denver having very much to do with KCNC. Come to think of it depsite the KCNC guy doing sports for KOOL I never heard "..from CBS 4" even though it was a CBS owned radio station. If that wasn't strange enough KIMN MIX 100 despite being part of CBS Radio then had actually did a lot more with KDVR FOX 31 instead and I believe KDVR was owned by FOX in those days. I do remember seeing the then MIX morning team of Dom & Jane on KDVR and KDVR even provided the weather for MIX 100 and not CBS 4. At the time I had thought that was..well odd !! Perhaps CBS had different rules in Denver than they did in other cities where they owned both radio & TV stations.
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Another rustproofer was Rusty Jones, whose spots were prominent on Philadelphia TV and whose logo was a deep drawling, rust-colored haired dude with 'stache to match, riding the roof of a Rusty Jones-ized car at speed (*definitely* do not attempt!) as he touted the virtues of his rustproofing and warranty. As Rusty rode his car client's roof into the sunset, a barbershop quartet would sing the jingle... "Hello Rusty Jooonnnes! Gooodbye russsteee carrrrrs!"
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