Jingles: KFWB = WBBM

[david]

If you check out TMCentury.com: http://www.tmcentury.com
you will find jingles for stations around the country, and across the globe.

Note how similar the WBBM package is to the KFWB package. Especially cut 10 - substitute Dodgers Radio for Bears Radio and they are almost the same.

And here I thought KFWB was trying to retain some of its heritage sound from the old package that has been on the station in one form or another since the 1960's.

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[Phantom]

> If you check out TMCentury.com: http://www.tmcentury.com
> you will find jingles for stations around the country, and
> across the globe.
>
> Note how similar the WBBM package is to the KFWB package.
> Especially cut 10 - substitute Dodgers Radio for Bears Radio
> and they are almost the same.
>
> And here I thought KFWB was trying to retain some of its
> heritage sound from the old package that has been on the
> station in one form or another since the 1960's.
>
> Comments on jingle duplication...


I liked the heritage sound myself.

Unique.

Of course, heritage means nothing at all to those that don't remember the old top-40 days.

Most say memories start about age 6. If you were that age when KFWB switched from music to all-news in March 1968, you would be 43 this year.

Math can be fun.

 

[KMRichards]

> And here I thought KFWB was trying to retain some of its
> heritage sound from the old package that has been on the
> station in one form or another since the 1960's.

Did it occur to you that the KFWB package may just have been recut for WBBM, and not the other way around?

That musical signature is indeed the one KFWB used as a top-40 station prior to 1968.
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[Garrett]

> If you check out TMCentury.com: http://www.tmcentury.com
> you will find jingles for stations around the country, and
> across the globe.
>
> Note how similar the WBBM package is to the KFWB package.
> Especially cut 10 - substitute Dodgers Radio for Bears Radio
> and they are almost the same.
>
> And here I thought KFWB was trying to retain some of its
> heritage sound from the old package that has been on the
> station in one form or another since the 1960's.
>
> Comments on jingle duplication...
>

Yeah,
it sounds like KRLD Dalla's jingle package too!
They had better not try this in Boston with WBZ, because it will not work. It is too different from WBZ's heritage W -N- BC jingle package from the early 80's.

 

[davideduardo]

Re: Jingles are expensive

> If you check out TMCentury.com: http://www.tmcentury.com
> you will find jingles for stations around the country, and
> across the globe.
>
> Note how similar the WBBM package is to the KFWB package.
> Especially cut 10 - substitute Dodgers Radio for Bears Radio
> and they are almost the same.
>
> And here I thought KFWB was trying to retain some of its
> heritage sound from the old package that has been on the
> station in one form or another since the 1960's.
>
> Comments on jingle duplication...
>

Nearly all station jingles are syndicated. That means the music and style can be sond in any non-competitive market. In fact, going back to the days of PAMS and CRC, jingle writers would do versions of the music for K and W calls and also for longer names as used internationally... So the "77 WABC" jingle was also "57, Radio Musical" in Quito, Ecuador.

Very very few stations can afford custom jingles. Usually they are in the top handful of markets. A good package, with original music, can cost $50,000 or more today. Often, stations doing custom jingles assign the rights to the producr who will syndicate... in exchange for a price cut.

Even the Johnny Mann Drake jingles form '65 got syndicated. There were even versions... LA singers or Dallas singers.

(Oversimplified, but I hope this helps)

 

[Phantom]

> If you check out TMCentury.com: http://www.tmcentury.com
> you will find jingles for stations around the country, and
> across the globe.
>
> Note how similar the WBBM package is to the KFWB package.
> Especially cut 10 - substitute Dodgers Radio for Bears Radio
> and they are almost the same.
>
> And here I thought KFWB was trying to retain some of its
> heritage sound from the old package that has been on the
> station in one form or another since the 1960's.
>
> Comments on jingle duplication...


Sorry, misread the gist of your question....

The expense of the jingles is such that I have no problems with duplication at all.

Originally, I read your post so quickly that I thought you mainly commenting on the old KFWB-type sound ... which I like.

 

[DrBear]

Actually, I've also heard some of the ID jingles for WBBM on WTAQ in Green Bay with
News-radio Seven Eighty, Double-you B B M
replaced with
News-radio Thirteen Sixty, Double-yuo T A Q.

Works just fine. I rather like hearing something familiar when I'm on the road.