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MEMORABLE SLOGANS

Legend on the East Coast is that 1010/WINS launched the "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" slogan, so we'll have to find an old (and I mean OLD) Westinghouse alum to settle the debate.

"One of America's two great radio stations... WJR, Detroit." "One of America's two great radio stations... WKBW, Buffalo." (When they were the Cap Cities flagships).

"The News Voice of The Gulf South... WWL, New Orleans."
 
blue67ccm said:
Well, some of my favorites.......

"The 50,000 Watt Voice of Virginia"----WRVA, Richmond
"KB Radio 15"-----from WKBW's Top 40 days in Buffalo

and possibly my favorite, from a legendary AOR station in Norfolk/Virginia Beach, VA.......they were actually located in the Great Dismal Swamp area in Suffolk, so they would position themselves like this....

"....from out of the Swamp comes The Legend---K94".

I loved that.
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Thanks for the memories. WRVA was a great locally focused station before the days of Rush. They were MOR, then AC, then talk. I used to sit in my car in parking lots on Hull St.Road so I could get K94 as clear as possible. That was a great station, but 93.7 didn't cover Richmond as well as 94.1 and 106.9 from Tidewater.
 
amfmxm said:
Legend on the East Coast is that 1010/WINS launched the "Give us 22 minutes and we'll give you the world" slogan, so we'll have to find an old (and I mean OLD) Westinghouse alum to settle the debate.
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Not necessarily. 1010/WINS appears to be Westinghouse's first All News station - flipping to that format in April 1965. KYW was second, becoming All News in September 65. KFWB didn't follow until 1968.

That doesn't mean the slogan had to have originated at WINS, but it's a safe guess.

There was a legendary story about KFWB - that seconds before the format changed, the last DJ (Gene Weed, I think) said "We'll be back with more music right after the news." The problem is, that same story attached to Johnny Holiday, the last DJ at WINS. Holiday is still with us, and denies ever saying it. The story is probably apocryphal.
 
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