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NBC Now Has Their Own "Flo"

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

Her name is Kathleen. Her title: "NBC Switchboard Operator." Today for the first time, I have started hearing radio advertisements in which "Kathleen" tells a caller to watch NBC's primetime lineup.

And yes, she has her own jingle.

A bad, bad imitation of Flo the Progressive Lady, if you ask me.

I wonder if NBC will start parading "Kathleen" in promos on the air. That is, if they don't have plans of this already.

(By the way, the fictitious NBC switchboard operator is not to be confused with the switchboard operator at WNBC Radio in New York who was inundated with calls following a Howard Stern bit in the movie "Private Parts." Gosh, I love that movie...)
 
ahh....the NBC Switchboard. Takes me back to a job I had as a young guy years ago that involved making hundreds of sales cold-calls. The boss got a report every night showing how much time each of us had spent on the phone. If you didn't rack up enough phone time you got in deep trouble...possibly even fired. So each of us found our own little ways of "padding" our phone time if we were running short that week.

One of the best methods we came up with was to call the NBC switchboard at 30 Rock and ask for J. Fred Muggs, the chimpanzee who co-starred with Dave Garroway on the original Today show back in the early 50's. This was more than 30 years after J. Fred had left the building. So chances were very good that the switchboard operator was either a) not alive, or b) not in the country when J. Fred was employed there. But she would invariably do her darndest to try and find him for you! You could ride that one out on hold for 60, 70 minutes on a good day! ;D
 
Incidentally, you'd have to think it was a monkey's uncle that came up with the "Kathleen" concept...

Great story, Fred!
 
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