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Spots you couldn't bury deep enough in a stopset

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Dr. o Fun

I saw this topic bantered about on another city's board and thought I'd try it hear. Which spots, local or national, really bug you?

They haven't been around in awhile but I always dreaded hearing:

D-O-W Dow

dr
 
Ditto on D-O-W Dow! At KSON, Mike Shepard always insisted we play those spots last in a break...
 
Anything that has more than three spots cause me to give the car radio the finger of station change.

I don't understand why some stations have back-to-back car spots. Must run national spots are quirky sometimes; especially with the colon blow or "fix your credit" ones that are popping up. :eek:
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
I don't understand why some stations have back-to-back car spots.
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As an advertiser, when I have anything to do with spots I make sure that there is no other similar business run in the commercial break. Also hijinx mentioned always running spots last in a break, I also make sure that I get 'x' amount of spots run at the top of the break. If either of these conditions isn't met, I don't pay for that spot. I get it in writing. You can't trust radio people. Sales is even worse. I have friends that work in radio sales, I tell 'em I love em as a person..as a radio sales person they can rot in hell. :D

I once had a commercial run in the middle of an 8 min commercial break on a CC station in Palmdale. Yeah, an 8 min break. Yea it was a a computer glitch. And they wondered why I didnt wan't to pay?! ::)
 
Dr. o Fun said:
I saw this topic bantered about on another city's board and thought I'd try it hear. Which spots, local or national, really bug you?

They haven't been around in awhile but I always dreaded hearing:

D-O-W Dow

dr
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!

At KJOY 102.9, it was this one:

"Do. You. Have. The. Flu?
(Long Pause)
"If you have the flu, call this number..."

I think they remixed it with some caughing or sneezing in the background in one of the cuts. But it was a national spot for a influenza study. It was completely void of any kind of background music or sound. Just pure rip and read. But I used to stick that dawg way at the end of the spot break! Of course, at 2am, that sometimes was the sole spot, and I had to suffer through it... :(
 
Media Hack Chris | SDR said:
I don't understand why some stations have back-to-back car spots.
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There was a time long ago (back in the day) when competitive spots could not run within seven minutes of each other. Of course, those days are long gone.

dr
 
Any of the various colon blow spots cause me to punch out immediately.

Any of the spots for "investigational studies of an experimental medicine" have the same effect.

Remember, back in the day, when KMET threw Tom Campbell off their air? I wish more radio companies had the self-respect to do that. Oh wait, this is radio. :D

A friend of mine once told me that his mom advised him she'd "rather see him dead in a ditch" than selling radio time :eek:

-- Doc
 
Smiley will probably send me hate mail if he read this but, remember those "Final days of Kkaleidoscope Jewlers?" Those "Final Days" seemed like they lasted 6 years!
 
Any commercial where they mention the Christmas shopping season after Dec 25 and before Thanksgiving Day.
 
One of my personal favorites that I got to voice was one for Clear Channel, for Colo-rectal cancer detection. It was so graphic that Chainsaw on DSC came out of the spot making fun of the topic and the extraordinary voice that recorded it!

Oh but does anyone remember the old F-Street book store ads that ran on Rock 105.3 back in the late 90's ?? "Feel the Love Feel the romance go to F-street books"
 
i remember in the late 80's early 90's it seemed as 91x played a bunch of comercials for night clubs south of the border , with the things going on in tijuana now a days , you would be lucky to come home alive :(
 
kenny said:
i remember in the late 80's early 90's it seemed as 91x played a bunch of comercials for night clubs south of the border , with the things going on in tijuana now a days , you would be lucky to come home alive :(
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Now that you've jogged my memory, I definitely remember the bombardment of spots for OH!(echo) LASER! (echo) CLUB (clubclubclubclub....)
 
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