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jawslacker
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I'm just curious as to how many who visit this board have any idea where that quote (subject) might
be from...
As a result of my early years growing up, and working on Long Island and NYC several decades ago, when
I migrated to Cincinnati, I brought an idea for a busboard campaign for WEBN. I am still at 'ebn, but the budget for busboards, along with some of the other more adventurous campaigns the station developed in the late '80s, has long since disappeared. So for those who don't know, "It ain't a one hour television spectacular..." was just one of several incredibly funny outbursts borne of frustration, and delivered by Howard Cossell. As a young punk turning 21 on-air overnights at WPLJ (we're talking ancient fm history here), I was given a birthday gift: 7 inch reel-to-reel that my engineer (yeah, unions...board ops) gave me which had, among other gems, several by Howard captured during recording sessions for one of the many programs he did for ABC, both locally and nationally. As he put it: "I'm goin' nuts with these shows...". At one point, reaching the boiling point he screamed at the engineer about a scheduling snafu "now who goofed, I've got to know...it was posted on the board; I've got a train to catch I'm due in Philadelphia...". Howard's tone elevating with every passing minute.
Priceless stuff. Anyway phrase he threw out there was in an effort to understand how a microphone issue could become so protracted: "It ain't a one hour television spectacular...". Classic, and lived on, on the sides of buses cruising Cincinnati's seven hills for several months in, I think, around 1988. I will post the picture
and audio on http://sonicarchitect.net for any who want to see/hear this. I got such a rush when I'd be sitting in my car at a Cincy intersection, watch a bus roll by with that sign...and think how absurd it was that Howard's out- take represented WEBN's self-depricating attitude so perfectly, and that I was probably the only one in that city who had any idea where it came from....
joel moss
Creative Services Director (still), WEBN
be from...
As a result of my early years growing up, and working on Long Island and NYC several decades ago, when
I migrated to Cincinnati, I brought an idea for a busboard campaign for WEBN. I am still at 'ebn, but the budget for busboards, along with some of the other more adventurous campaigns the station developed in the late '80s, has long since disappeared. So for those who don't know, "It ain't a one hour television spectacular..." was just one of several incredibly funny outbursts borne of frustration, and delivered by Howard Cossell. As a young punk turning 21 on-air overnights at WPLJ (we're talking ancient fm history here), I was given a birthday gift: 7 inch reel-to-reel that my engineer (yeah, unions...board ops) gave me which had, among other gems, several by Howard captured during recording sessions for one of the many programs he did for ABC, both locally and nationally. As he put it: "I'm goin' nuts with these shows...". At one point, reaching the boiling point he screamed at the engineer about a scheduling snafu "now who goofed, I've got to know...it was posted on the board; I've got a train to catch I'm due in Philadelphia...". Howard's tone elevating with every passing minute.
Priceless stuff. Anyway phrase he threw out there was in an effort to understand how a microphone issue could become so protracted: "It ain't a one hour television spectacular...". Classic, and lived on, on the sides of buses cruising Cincinnati's seven hills for several months in, I think, around 1988. I will post the picture
and audio on http://sonicarchitect.net for any who want to see/hear this. I got such a rush when I'd be sitting in my car at a Cincy intersection, watch a bus roll by with that sign...and think how absurd it was that Howard's out- take represented WEBN's self-depricating attitude so perfectly, and that I was probably the only one in that city who had any idea where it came from....
joel moss
Creative Services Director (still), WEBN