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KGVL air staff

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oldmanradio

In addition to McCoy and Brinkman, who else is on the air at KGVL.

Last week, I heard someone around 1:25 p.m. I did not recognize the voice.

Tony
 
His name is Ron Foster.

http://www.youtube.com/big14gvlonline

I was in Dallas for the past two weeks and when KAAM was doing its infomercial thing, I listened to KGVL online a couple of times. I cannot get it over the air at approximately Lemmon Avenue and the Dallas North Tollway: 1360 appears to be the signal that overpowers it.

Not my genre, but those three guys sure sound like they enjoy doing radio - and the spots are a hoot!
 
Ron Foster from XM? Bet he's VT'ed or piped in remotely.
 
Mike, I doubt it's the same person.

The YouTube video shows him live from the barn in Murphy.
 
The signal in Richardson and far north Dallas is not too bad.

The audio seems flat -- like a Coke without carbonation. But some of that may be the distance.

But when I heard the station, my first thought was ... no wonder music left AM.

Tony
 
oldmanradio said:
The signal in Richardson and far north Dallas is not too bad.

The audio seems flat -- like a Coke without carbonation. But some of that may be the distance.

But when I heard the station, my first thought was ... no wonder music left AM.

Tony
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Maybe some of that is distance. I can't hear them "over the air" where I live or work. (I listen to them online.) But on a car radio, driving through Northeast Texas recently, they sounded good.
 
Ron is a former longtime KILT jock, later worked for the ABCRN's oldies format. He went over to the short-lived Stardust/Memories 'replacement' format that an Addison startup created earlier this year. (The same one that jerked around Brinkman.) Not sure where I got an XM connection, tho.
 
There was another ABC castoff, Jerry Walker filling in for Ron Foster this week. They sound like a combination of WABC, WMCA, CKLW and KQV. Do they have a website? I can't seem to find one.
 
MicroPhoney said:
Ron also did a short period of mornings on KSCS with Angela Brooks in the late 80s.
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AHHHH...mystery solved (I think.) Is that the same Angela Brooks who did all the raspy-throated V/O's and on-camera spokesperson duties for the old Love Ford-Love Jeep on Lemmon Ave at Inwood back in the late 1980s? (The old Miracle Ford dealership.) Always wondered where she came from or what her claim to fame was.
 
That's the one. Ron did mornings on KIKK in Houston with some other woman and Brooks was there too, maybe just as a part timer, can't recall. They teamed up in about 86 at KSCS when even WBAP was still country.
 
I heard the guy filling in for Chuck Brinkman the other day play a Palisades Amusement Park commercial! And tag it with "Tuesdays and Thursdays admission is only 10¢" :D
 
pro4aa said:
I heard the guy filling in for Chuck Brinkman the other day play a Palisades Amusement Park commercial! And tag it with "Tuesdays and Thursdays admission is only 10¢" :D
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I wish I would have heard it. That's an unforgettable commercial - "Come on over..." and is on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mnXyMqSxIg

Anyone remember the commercial for Ballantine Beer based on Perry Como's "Round and Round"? It was from roughly the same era of the Palisades Park jingle.
 
Bob E. Nelson said:
pro4aa said:
I heard the guy filling in for Chuck Brinkman the other day play a Palisades Amusement Park commercial! And tag it with "Tuesdays and Thursdays admission is only 10¢" :D
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I wish I would have heard it. That's an unforgettable commercial - "Come on over..." and is on YouTube here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mnXyMqSxIg

Anyone remember the commercial for Ballantine Beer based on Perry Como's "Round and Round"? It was from roughly the same era of the Palisades Park jingle.
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Yes, I do vaguely remember that. But my beer is Rheingold, the dry beer. If they play that and change their request line to Plaza 7-8866, I'll be a listener for life.
 
pro4aa said:
Yes, I do vaguely remember that. But my beer is Rheingold, the dry beer. If they play that and change their request line to Plaza 7-8866, I'll be a listener for life.
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We're getting WAY off topic for Dallas-Ft. Worth but suffice it to say that there's at least one person who remembers that number well from the Brad Crandall era.
 
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