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New KFI Branding Voice

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colininla

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Just different enough to get noticed, but not at all obtrusive, the new sound works for me. Sets a good, even tone for the station.

Anybody know who the new guy is?
 
For reasons I can't even explain or understand, I always liked hearing the date along with the top-of-the-hour ID: "Tuesday, September 4," for example. (As if anyone needed an example.) I guess it was reassuring to know that it was a new day and I'm still alive. Who was the woman who voiced those? And why were they stopped a few weeks ago?
 
SimiRadioListener26 said:
Wha??? There's a new KFI voice?!
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If there is, I haven't heard it and I have had KFI locked in my car radio for a number of years.

Like LARadioRewind, I too miss the TOH date stamp lady.
 
Robnoxious said:
SimiRadioListener26 said:
Wha??? There's a new KFI voice?!
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If there is, I haven't heard it and I have had KFI locked in my car radio for a number of years.

Like LARadioRewind, I too miss the TOH date stamp lady.
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Well, this is pretttttty embarrassing. I was thinking K-T-L-K, but typed K-F-I. (gulp).
It's 1150AM that has a new branding voice. Mea culpa.

Okay, I'll go hang up on myself, now. :-\
 
colininla said:
Well, this is pretttttty embarrassing. I was thinking K-T-L-K, but typed K-F-I. (gulp).
It's 1150AM that has a new branding voice. Mea culpa.

Okay, I'll go hang up on myself, now. :-\
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No need to do anything too drastic... KTLK needs all 6 of you listening. ;)
 
I miss the top of the hour id with k-b-i-g "its 3 o clock in the west".

Clear channel really needs to finish off that pathetic piece of trash at am 1150!!!
 
Speaking of imaging voices, whatever happened to KABC's Howard Hoffman? He was fired in 2011, along with news director Mark Austin Thomas and traffic reporter Jorge Jarrín. And Mister Robnoxious will probably agree with me that KABC also has six listeners, the same as KTLK.
 
pjc1961 said:
Howard Hoffman is still "a guy who does voices": http://www.howardhoffman.com/HoHoVO/Howard_Hoffman_Voices.html
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Howard also continues to operate his greatbigradio.com, which he linked up with Tom Leykis' New Normal Network last year. GBR is an interesting concept as it focuses on forgotten hits that have fallen out of most people's awareness. Examples of tracks they play which were well known but rarely if ever heard anymore on KRTH & KOLA - Coconut by Harry Nilsson, A Little More Love by Olivia Newton-John, Fly Robin Fly by Silver Convention, Turn To Stone by ELO, We Are Family by Sister Sledge, Think I'm In Love by Eddie Money, etc.
 
There are entire blocks of artists and songs that have fallen off oldies radio these days. It's always the same: the station wants a younger demo, so they do focus groups on the new, lower target, who never knew many of the old hits because they were too young. Only the monster hits remain, and the "spice tracks", the ones that give the station some flavor, get dumped. Sad but true. "Good Lovin'" and "Groovin'" are great songs, but "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" would sure add some variety once in a blue moon. And don't even get me started on the Otis Redding hits.

Sorry, off-topic as usual :D

-- Doc
 
What do you mean, "Otis Redding hits"? The only hit he ever had was Dock Of The Bay. Petula Clark (Downtown) and Roy Orbison (Oh Pretty Woman) also had just one hit apiece. I've listened to FM oldies stations for many years so you can't fool me!
 
LARadioRewind said:
What do you mean, "Otis Redding hits"? The only hit he ever had was Dock Of The Bay. Petula Clark (Downtown) and Roy Orbison (Oh Pretty Woman) also had just one hit apiece. I've listened to FM oldies stations for many years so you can't fool me!
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ROFLMAO!

--Doc
 
I am listening to Rush on KFI and I am hearing some different IDs. It's probably the same ones yo guys are talking about, but what is catching my ear are the singers in the background singing "K-F-I" with the last letter being held for several beats.

The reason this is catching my ear is because it sounds like the old Heller jingle package that KFI used in the mid to latter 1960s to early to mid 1970s.

This particular jingle was an up tempo jingle (long form) that I call "Talk a Walk" because the singers sang, " Take a Walk through a yesterday meadow, catch a tune make it live in a day, find again all the happiness you know. Hear it now. K-F-I six forty. Take a look through a yesterday window, hear a sound as it echoes away, making time in a world you got to know. Hear it now. K-F-I six-forty."

God, I love that jingle package!!!!!
 
Mike said:
I am listening to Rush on KFI and I am hearing some different IDs. It's probably the same ones yo guys are talking about, but what is catching my ear are the singers in the background singing "K-F-I" with the last letter being held for several beats.

The reason this is catching my ear is because it sounds like the old Heller jingle package that KFI used in the mid to latter 1960s to early to mid 1970s.

This particular jingle was an up tempo jingle (long form) that I call "Talk a Walk" because the singers sang, " Take a Walk through a yesterday meadow, catch a tune make it live in a day, find again all the happiness you know. Hear it now. K-F-I six forty. Take a look through a yesterday window, hear a sound as it echoes away, making time in a world you got to know. Hear it now. K-F-I six-forty."

God, I love that jingle package!!!!!
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Mike: That package was produced in 1969, when KFI decided to break out of their old, stuffy MOR image by hiring some younger jocks with backgrounds in Top 40 to complement Lohman and Barkley, who started in October of '68. Jay Lawrence, Jerry Bishop, Dave Hull and Frank Terry were brought aboard.

Bits and pieces of the package aired through '73, when they were replaced with recording artists (Kenny Rogers is one that has survived via an aircheck) singing "for KFI". I forget the words to those jingles, but each was introduced by the amazing voice of Ken Nordine, who all did the IDs: "Your Lohman and Barkley station. 640. K-F-I. Los Angeles".

My favorite cut from the '69 package was:

"There are no short cuts on the freeway to happiness...K-F-I, Los Angeles."

The entire package aired on KFI about 15 years ago. Phil Hendrie did an hour in which the gag was that David G. Hall thought that a talk station needed jingles, so he spent $250,000 on a jingle package that would debut Monday morning on Bill Handel's show, but he was letting Phil sneak preview them.

Phil, of course, thought they were awful (he pretended to throw up while your favorite played) and took calls from irate listeners who said "this sounds like something from the 60s".

Johnny Mann's sister called in (no, really, it wasn't Hendrie) and said she thought they were a package Johnny had done a long time ago. Phil deflected that by having his "Bobbie Dooley" character call in and chat with Johnny's sister about how she had heard all about her when she (Bobbie) and Johnny were sleeping together back in the 70s.

Very weird hearing those jingles on that show that night.
 
Thanks Michael for that. I was listening to KFI a lot from late 68 to till Dave Hull left in 72(?). I wasn't that into Paul Compton, so I didn't listen as much until Dick Whittington did afternoon drive. I tuned in when the signals started hitting Phoenix.

After that, with my favorite jingle package gone, I only listened for a few minutes in the evening. During their rock era, I did win a copy of the Dan Hill album that had the song, "Sometimes When We Touch" on it.

Memories are fading.
 
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