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Yabadabado1

While noodling around Youtube today, discovered WGAR & WNBC [featuring former WGAR DJs] airchecks from around the mid 70s. Wow! Some of the jokes they were telling back then would get them fired, drawn & quartered by today's standard of "let's not offend anyone/thing, etc. no matter if they're animal, vegetable or mineral." I don't think I could even repeat any of them on here. Phil Gardner, The "REAL" Bob James, Vernon with a V....amazing what they got away with back then. Of course, no internet for people to instantly start a war over the jokes. All they could do back then would be to write letters, call the stations and complain.....which would go into one ear and out the other of whomever it was directed to. Was surprised WGAR was doing newsbreaks all the way up to midnight and the "listeners comments" phone calls they put on the air, "live commercial reads and tags after the taped commercials. Paid attention because you never know when one of them would make an off-the-wall comment about the commercial which served to enhance the product. Try that today and you'd probably have a business yanking their sales account....of the 3 or 4 business' left advertising on radio. I ain't no saint when it comes to off-color stuff on the air at least from 1976 onwards when I started writing jokes for morning DJs and on the air from 1978 forward but usually they were double entendres which skated the line.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
While noodling around Youtube today, discovered WGAR & WNBC [featuring former WGAR DJs] airchecks from around the mid 70s. Wow! Some of the jokes they were telling back then would get them fired, drawn & quartered by today's standard of "let's not offend anyone/thing, etc. no matter if they're animal, vegetable or mineral." I don't think I could even repeat any of them on here. Phil Gardner, The "REAL" Bob James, Vernon with a V....amazing what they got away with back then. Of course, no internet for people to instantly start a war over the jokes. All they could do back then would be to write letters, call the stations and complain.....which would go into one ear and out the other of whomever it was directed to. Was surprised WGAR was doing newsbreaks all the way up to midnight and the "listeners comments" phone calls they put on the air, "live commercial reads and tags after the taped commercials. Paid attention because you never know when one of them would make an off-the-wall comment about the commercial which served to enhance the product. Try that today and you'd probably have a business yanking their sales account....of the 3 or 4 business' left advertising on radio. I ain't no saint when it comes to off-color stuff on the air at least from 1976 onwards when I started writing jokes for morning DJs and on the air from 1978 forward but usually they were double entendres which skated the line.
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I listened to Phil Gardner quite a bit, and, for the era, he was a bit blue. Eventually he got evangelicalism and had a long career under his real name Phil Reasor at WBCL in Fort Wayne.
 
I listened to Phil Gardner quite a bit, and, for the era, he was a bit blue. Eventually he got evangelicalism and had a long career under his real name Phil Reasor at WBCL in Fort Wayne.

Yeah, he just retired from there last August. I listened online every once in a while but the religious stuff just ain't my thang. Over 60 years in radio.....and the last 25 were at WBCL.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
I listened to Phil Gardner quite a bit, and, for the era, he was a bit blue. Eventually he got evangelicalism and had a long career under his real name Phil Reasor at WBCL in Fort Wayne.

Yeah, he just retired from there last August. I listened online every once in a while but the religious stuff just ain't my thang. Over 60 years in radio.....and the last 25 were at WBCL.
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Wow, even if he started in radio in his teens, he's up there in age. There was a brief time he and Ron Gregory owned 106.3.
 
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