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KZOK TV Commercial (1985)

Bongwater

Bongwater

Remember this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEoXZpWXWas

COOL video graphics for it's time, but what a DISASTROUS radio format idea! The "Quality Rock" sound had KZOK stripping away all hard rock and well, that intro to "Naughty Naughty" John Parr was a warning sign right there. KISW had a ball with it, as you can imagine (remember that billboard KZOK had on Aurora - right by the KISW studios in '86? At the bottom of the new KZOK logo, it read "Not Too Hard, Not Too Soft", somebody spray painted below it "NOT TOO GOOD")

It took KZOK nearly five years to fully recover....
 
Well Larry...you got me trolling a bit on YouTube.
Found this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-K4hAvXgpo

Evidently someone recorded a number of PNW stations with the live jocks doing TOH IDs and weather reads.
Tri Cities/Spokane/Seattle/Portland. 1986 - 87. No video, just audio.

Even hear Ron Harris doing a TOH at KHIT, probably early 1987.
And the late Ernie Anderson doing the ID for KPLZ.

Ahhhh...memories.


Peter
 
peetah said:
Well Larry...you got me trolling a bit on YouTube.
Found this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-K4hAvXgpo

Evidently someone recorded a number of PNW stations with the live jocks doing TOH IDs and weather reads.
Tri Cities/Spokane/Seattle/Portland. 1986 - 87. No video, just audio.

Even hear Ron Harris doing a TOH at KHIT, probably early 1987.
And the late Ernie Anderson doing the ID for KPLZ.

Ahhhh...memories.


Peter
Click to expand...

Yes, I heard it too. And taped it (yes, YouTube sound is awful on top of being dubbed off an old cassette in the first place

You up for a classic ad for Magic 108, Mr. Peetah (right after the ABC news brief?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2gg6XjHRZg

Why am I craving almonds just now.....
 
Very cool Larry.
And yes I do remember the Magic ad.
Nothing gets your attention as quickly as floating, dismembered hands on TV.
I also thought that the tag for the almond growers should have been "Up to our ass in almonds."
LOL.

I think I enjoyed the audio of the jingles so much because I used some of those back in the day.
I still can picture the studio at Leschi as we broadcast "from the shores of Lake Washington."
Although the KHIT jingles were shortly put in place after I had left.

If you've got any more YouTube nuggets, bring 'em on.
 
Here's another one:

For KEZX FM 98.9, circa 1985 (a recording from a typical cable TV reader board "community access" channel back then.) Just the ending of a commercial and an intro aurally.

KEZX used to ALWAYS report the weather for BC as well (they had a HUGE and loyal audience up there. The signal went clear up the BC coast, plus they played a lot of Vancouver indie artists) It was far more "coffeehouse music" sounding than KMTT ever was. Which wasn't such a bad thing then - it would have been INSANELY popular had they held on when the "unplugged" sound became hip in the '90s. However, they did go slightly harder as "The Northwest Progressive, 98.9" in 1989. with more classic alternative cuts, but still a general focus on what made KEZX such a cool station to begin with. Regardless, KEZX was light years ahead of it's time.

They even had a slogan for it in '85 too - "Gourmet Rock" (there was also a classic TV commercial for that that I was trying to look up, but couldn't find it. It was like a music poll. The announcer would play a snippet of a Barry Manilow song. Then a snippet of a Twisted Sister cut, then something from the KEZX format - I think it was Crosby, Stills & Nash, then said "If you like Crosby Stills and Nash, you should be listening to KEZX. That's Gourmet Rock, KEZX, FM 99". Something like that....

Nevertheless, Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel, Michael Tomlinson and Uncle Bonsai owe their entire music careers to them. If there were three core local acts KEZX played in the '80s, it was them.

Nowadays, you're damn lucky to hear Seattle's 98.9 in BELLINGHAM alone. The then-phenomenal signal up north went completely to hell when it moved to Tiger.....) Not to mention the new low power BC stations on 98.9 as well....

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