RoddyFreeman said:
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Most annoying spot or jingle ever in ATL Radio
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Peachtree Center.
Was that the Atlanta Gas building? An engineer told me WZGC's antenna was once on that building.
Roddy, that is correct. Actually, that tower is the reason WZGC is a C1 and the rest of the original Atlanta stations are C0. WZGC would not pay to upgrade to a taller tower when the deadline hit to downgrade stations from C.
A bit of trivia, somewhere around 1980 or so (I could be a few years off) WZGC offered the board of WRFG that tower free of charge. WRFG refused because there was a built in liability in the lease. If WRFG ever wanted to leave the tower, they would be responsible for the removal of the tower. At the time, the cost of removal of that tower was more than WRFG's annual budget.
Another piece of trivia at the time the WZGC studios were located in the old round C&S Tower.
A bit of trivia, somewhere around 1980 or so (I could be a few years off) WZGC offered the board of WRFG that tower free of charge. WRFG refused because there was a built in liability in the lease. If WRFG ever wanted to leave the tower, they would be responsible for the removal of the tower. At the time, the cost of removal of that tower was more than WRFG's annual budget.
Another piece of trivia at the time the WZGC studios were located in the old round C&S Tower.
Thanks, Barry.
From the top of that building, the WZGC antenna moved to the roof of the Peachtree Plaza Hotel. I'm guessing that was around the mid-seventies. The antenna was there when the FCC instituted the height rule around the late eighties, and New Street was built by the Atlanta Board of Education. That tower, whose main tenant was WPBA-TV, housed the antennas of WSTR, WSB-FM, WVEE and WABE, keeping them all C1's. WZGC, whose height was a little under 1,000 feet, elected to stay on the Peachtree Plaza and was downgraded to a C0.
When John Young was PD of Z93 in the early 80s, the TOH ID said, "From the top of the world's tallest hotel." When Z100/New York signed on in 1983, their ID said, "From the top of the Empire State Building." Their PD at the time was Scott Shannon. Not sure which station had it first, but I'm guessing it was Z93.
Back to New Street. WABE later moved to Stone Mountain and then to the new WPBA-TV digital tower, next to the original New Street tower. Finally, several months ago, WABE replaced WPBA-TV's analog antenna at the very top of the original New Street tower. At some point, ownership of the New Street tower transferred from the Atlanta Board of Education to whoever owned WVEE at the time. I believe CBS Radio, current owners of WVEE, sold all of their owned towers to American Tower about a year ago.
From the top of that building, the WZGC antenna moved to the roof of the Peachtree Plaza Hotel. I'm guessing that was around the mid-seventies. The antenna was there when the FCC instituted the height rule around the late eighties, and New Street was built by the Atlanta Board of Education. That tower, whose main tenant was WPBA-TV, housed the antennas of WSTR, WSB-FM, WVEE and WABE, keeping them all C1's. WZGC, whose height was a little under 1,000 feet, elected to stay on the Peachtree Plaza and was downgraded to a C0.
When John Young was PD of Z93 in the early 80s, the TOH ID said, "From the top of the world's tallest hotel." When Z100/New York signed on in 1983, their ID said, "From the top of the Empire State Building." Their PD at the time was Scott Shannon. Not sure which station had it first, but I'm guessing it was Z93.
Back to New Street. WABE later moved to Stone Mountain and then to the new WPBA-TV digital tower, next to the original New Street tower. Finally, several months ago, WABE replaced WPBA-TV's analog antenna at the very top of the original New Street tower. At some point, ownership of the New Street tower transferred from the Atlanta Board of Education to whoever owned WVEE at the time. I believe CBS Radio, current owners of WVEE, sold all of their owned towers to American Tower about a year ago.
Okay.. my very fuzzy memory was flawed. I do remember that in 1977 I was a sophmore in high school and the photographer for the school paper. The paper went to interview Ross and Wilson in the C&S Tower studios and they pointed out to me that they could see their tower from the studio windows. At that time they were still on the shorter building. I started volunteering at WRFG in 1979 and it was in that time frame that WZGC made the offer to the WRFG board. Roddy, I think you are right in that WZGC and moved by 1979 and they were just trying to offload the expense of taking down the old tower onto someone else.
WOW! That pulled some dust bunnies out of the old memory.
WOW! That pulled some dust bunnies out of the old memory.
"Eat at Joe's...Joe Rigatoni's"
"The Shane Company, go north on I-75 exit Windy Hill Rd, open Monday thru Friday till 8, Saturday and Sunday till 5"
Heard these two spots more than I could stand "from the top of the world's tallest hotel" on "Atlanta's HIT Radio, Z-93" in the early 1980's as a kid.
Weren't those days just grand? John Young's voice was one of the first I came to recognize, along with "Lindsey" and Mel Cargle. Amazing what you can recall at 4-5 years old.
I'm sure this has been posted before, but while we're on the subject of when Atlanta had top notch radio....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXukXAwlrMk
"The Shane Company, go north on I-75 exit Windy Hill Rd, open Monday thru Friday till 8, Saturday and Sunday till 5"
Heard these two spots more than I could stand "from the top of the world's tallest hotel" on "Atlanta's HIT Radio, Z-93" in the early 1980's as a kid.
Weren't those days just grand? John Young's voice was one of the first I came to recognize, along with "Lindsey" and Mel Cargle. Amazing what you can recall at 4-5 years old.
I'm sure this has been posted before, but while we're on the subject of when Atlanta had top notch radio....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXukXAwlrMk
MRFLASHPORT said:
Thank you for posting that link, I hadn't seen it before, great piece of Atlanta radio history. Back when Gary McKee was on WQXI-FM and Ross and Wilson were on Z-93. I have to go digging for aircheck cassettes. I know I have some from those days somewhere in a box in storage. Great times. Radio was a lot of fun to listen to.
"Biggest no-brainer in the history of the Earth.."
Kaminski hands down. Those jingles are terrible.
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Re: Radio DJ of the past
Any one rember on WVEE a DJ with a big deep voice he's name was Scott White on the air. He was on like 10am - 4 pm .I knew him in person he was nothing like he sound on the air at all. A slim tall guy with red hair and beard. Any one rember him ,hes deep voice?
Any one rember on WVEE a DJ with a big deep voice he's name was Scott White on the air. He was on like 10am - 4 pm .I knew him in person he was nothing like he sound on the air at all. A slim tall guy with red hair and beard. Any one rember him ,hes deep voice?
Re: Radio DJ of the past
A 2007 update on Scott White is here: http://www.440.com/namesw2.html
alleo said:
A 2007 update on Scott White is here: http://www.440.com/namesw2.html
Just Brakes...what the heck is a four wheel friction re-line? They used this line back in the 90s. I think the lady now asks for actual brake pads, shoes, and turning rotors. Now after the annoying jingle, the announcer quickly tells you that other service may be needed at a substantial extra cost.
Sandy Shumate would have gotten my vote. That shrill voice alone can clean out air ducts -would be fun, once, to hear Sandy and Belinda Skelton together in one ad. Nobody would be able to tell who was talking. But Shumate has wisely quit using Sandy in the ads and instead brought in a stupid jingle with lots of xylophone. What's the other HVAC company who ripped off the Taxi theme song? Why haven't they been sued for that?
United Community Bank with the ever-happy guy basically insults anyone who banks anywhere else, which is mostly everybody. The divorce lawyer ads are a recent pain and a great reminder to never get married.
Kars 4 Kids... after hearing them nonstop for years in other markets, I about went to the ER the first time they ran a spot in Atlanta. But thank god they haven't been running as many spots here. That jingle is poison.
United Community Bank with the ever-happy guy basically insults anyone who banks anywhere else, which is mostly everybody. The divorce lawyer ads are a recent pain and a great reminder to never get married.
Kars 4 Kids... after hearing them nonstop for years in other markets, I about went to the ER the first time they ran a spot in Atlanta. But thank god they haven't been running as many spots here. That jingle is poison.
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the plumber add with the monkey .
The latest one from Cancer treatment Centers of America. Good people doing good work, but their ad is just a turn off. "When I found out I had breast cancer....(pause and change voice for effect)...I was devastated." I listened a little closer and realized the background music stops during "I was devastated". Was it dubbed in later because she didn't give it enough "Umph" the first time?
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