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'Racetrack' 1080 Traffic?!?

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easttxtv

Can anyone say 'identity crisis'?

(This after they've quietly dropped the 'news radio' part of their ID, timely since they're going into their rah-rah-Rangers phase, another excuse not to deliver news/traffic/weather...oh and another quiet transaction being what was left of 'Sunday Morning Staff Meeting' going the way of paid financial info with Dan Levin....)
 
Did they say "From the Racetrack Traffic Center"? If so, that's just a sponsor (probably RaceTrac gas stations) that bought "naming rights" to the traffic reports. I've heard "Ashley Furniture Homestore Traffic Center" and "Texas Lottery Traffic Center" on other stations as well. Nothing to really worry about (except for stations selling out every aspect of their broadcast).
 
I hope it never becomes the "Laurelland Traffic center" or the "Porter Loring Funeral Home traffic center"
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
I hope it never becomes the "Laurelland Traffic center" or the "Porter Loring Funeral Home traffic center"
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Funniest thing I've heard in a while.
 
So they sold the traffic reports. What's the big deal?
 
mustangsally said:
So they sold the traffic reports. What's the big deal?
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Well from my standpoint it just seems silly. It's like saying advertisers have their own traffic coverage service. "This traffic update has been brought to you buy Acme Hardware" sure, but "This has been a traffic update from the Acme Hardware Traffic Center"? It just sounds weird...

R
 
I always chuckle when I hear, "...traffic brought to you by...".

Hey, if you're paying money, would you mind making some of the traffic go away, instead of bringing it?
 
CHECK CHECK

"And now from the McDonald's KRLD studio, we go up to the man in the sky, buzzing around the Metroplex in our Boeing/Shell Oil chopper. Take it away with Gonzalez Funeral Home Traffic...

Yeah, it looks like a great day on those Victory Park highways. A couple of spots to talk about, but speaking of... have you purchased the Tide stick that removes stains of all types. And now, back to the Wal-Mart segment of the GFH traffic."

:-\ I'll just drive and see what happens on the overpass. Oy!
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
CHECK CHECK

"And now from the McDonald's KRLD studio, we go up to the man in the sky, buzzing around the Metroplex in our Boeing/Shell Oil chopper. Take it away with Gonzalez Funeral Home Traffic...

Yeah, it looks like a great day on those Victory Park highways. A couple of spots to talk about, but speaking of... have you purchased the Tide stick that removes stains of all types. And now, back to the Wal-Mart segment of the GFH traffic."

:-\ I'll just drive and see what happens on the overpass. Oy!
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You're trying too hard to immitate KPLEX. ;D
 
There was a post quite a while back that mentioned Clear Channel/Total Traffic forcing reporters in other cities to use CC sponsors' landmarks as 'guideposts' for their traffic reports...or worse yet, NOT using non-CC-friendly's landmarks...for example, a freeze-out of the American Airlines Center if they weren't a CC-friendly concert venue.

Now, let me try my hand at the funnies...

"Traffic slow along eastbound I-30 from the brand new Starbucks on Eastchase Pkwy all the way to the Optical Center inside your friendly WalMart store at Chalk Hill. But if you're driving the new 2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse with all-wheel-drive and on-board traffic navigation center, you know this already. North on 35-Stemmons, a couple of cars could sure use some help from one of Collision King's 18 metroplex locations right now; that wreck sitting just across from the Jack-In-The Box at Mockingbird, where you can try the new Bruschetta Wrap for only $3.99 today. And now your road debris watch brought to you by Glad Trash Bags, and after that, your Accidents-On-The-Shoulder, sponsored by Head-n-Shoulders."
 
Mike did it!!!:)
This message being brought to you by The Connoco-Phillips Commuter Command Center where you can get gas on both ends with our super premium unleaded xlt for your car and our new Breakfast Burrito for your self for only 39 cents! Now here's Brad Barton with Weather.
 
Shoot... why can't a guy just have a sense of humor instead of the hattas' thinking I am trying to steal someone's game?! :mad:

But Mike did have a good traffic broadcast though. I think between the several of us, we should go into business.
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
Shoot... why can't a guy just have a sense of humor instead of the hattas' thinking I am trying to steal someone's game?! :mad:
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I have one!! :) I was just grading your performance. ;)

You should hear some of the whining complaints people call in. :(

R
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
CHECK CHECK

"And now from the McDonald's KRLD studio, we go up to the man in the sky, buzzing around the Metroplex in our Boeing/Shell Oil chopper. Take it away with Gonzalez Funeral Home Traffic...

Yeah, it looks like a great day on those Victory Park highways. A couple of spots to talk about, but speaking of... have you purchased the Tide stick that removes stains of all types. And now, back to the Wal-Mart segment of the GFH traffic."

:-\ I'll just drive and see what happens on the overpass. Oy!
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McDonald's?

More like "And now from the Medicare KRLD studio, we go up to the man in the sky, in our American Heart Association Chopper. Take it away from the Restland Funeral Home Traffic Center"

Sorry. This is just too funny.

By the way, all stations are doing this or wanting to do this. It is not just KRLD.
 
Zocor lowers your chloresterol and stops artery blockage. The main artery on I-35 northbound stemmons is blocked by a disabled wheeler at walnut hill. Diamond Walnuts good for your dinner recipe,or any old time for a quick snack. Diamond Walnuts. It's going to be a real headache to get home if you are southbound on central at Knox-henderson,but use bayer the wonder drug to ease the pain of your long drive home. Eastbound LBJ is congested once again at Marsh. Its almost spring and if that evening Marsh odor casues you to have a stuffy nose, and congestion use flonaise,it works 12 hours a day ,now in the new gel capsul form. Thats traffic from the KRLD KClinic Commuter Command Center.
 
Now Robert, that was genius... and ask the man, I acknowledge greatness when I see it.

PLEX, nice work.
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
dank yew barry much.
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Barry Much ??? Is he by chance related to Barry Manilow? :eek:

OK OK, I'll go back to what I was doing... ;)

R
 
No, Barry Much is related to "Nuttin Much" the new PD at Kaza.Barry Manilow is a cousin of "Mary Womanhigh" an Icelandic punkrocker that is ripping up the charts in Reyjavik. The BiPolar police were called,but couldn't decide to arrest her or ask for her cousin's autograph.
 
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