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Remembering Chuck Zink

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It was December 5, 2006 he passed away. Anybody have any good stories? With him being around for over 183 years there must be some!

I enjoyed listening to him do a promo about the up-coming voice after he signed off. Her name? Joyce Kaufman and he pronounced it exactly as it is supposed to be as "COFF-MAN" and not this silly "COWF-MAN" crap.

Rest in peace, Captain!
 
DXDXDX said:
With him being around for over 183 years...!
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Wow, born in 1823 ???
I met him when my mother brought me down to the old WTVJ building to be on Popeye's Playhouse.
Think I was like four years old and was terrorized by a fear that once I got behind that small monochrome screen, I would be trapped in that gray world, forever, like Alice in the looking glass. How many of us remember our surprise learning that baseball plays on green grass?
 
Or how about the realization when we watch TV, we can see "them" but "they" can't see us! I must have asked that of my mother a million times! "Can they see us, Mommy?"
 
It gets especially personal when a character on the other side of the screen breaks the fourth wall, stares @ us, and talks to us, a la Dobie Gillis.
 
ai4i said:
It gets especially personal when a character on the other side of the screen breaks the fourth wall, stares @ us, and talks to us, a la Dobie Gillis.
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So then, "Romper Room" would be the creepiest of all ("I see Nancy, and I see Joey, and there's Judy, and, oh, Johnny too....")

It has been said that "Dobie Gillis" * was kinda the inspiration for "Saved by the Bell".....the Zack character did that 4th-wall thingy too, almost the exact way Dobie would.

[ * And why isn't DG on DVD yet??? ]

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I'm fortunate enough to have worked in the radio broadcast business nation wide for well over 33 year's, and my "DAD" before me was fortunate enough to work radio and the early day's of radio and TV when TV first started out, and during the late 60's my "DAD" worked with Chuck Zink and his kid's show during his early day's at WTVJ 4 in Miami "Skipper Chuck" was South Florida's #1 rated morning TV show for a long time.....Go figure!
 
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