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The Good Guys

I do remember WNDR using the Good Guys moniker but the true Good Guys were on WTLB. WNDR just seemed to use the Good Guys as a liner. I don't think they ever really promoted it. WTLB was owned by R. Straus & the Straus Broadcasting Group which co-owned WMCA in NYC. All of Straus's stations were Good Guys. WMCA originated the term Good Guys but I don't think they ever put a copy write on it since stations across the country used the term seemingly at will. WTLB did the whole deal, Good Guy contests, Good Guy sweatshirts, Good picnic, etc. The jock shouts all said Good Guy and the pamms jingles pretty much had Good Guys in them. Here's a little bit more about R. Peter Straus - a true "Good Guy" broadcaster. http://nysbroadcasters.org/history/hall-of-fame/2005-inductees/r-peter-straus/

A little bit more trivia about Straus: He is Monica Lewinsky's step father.
 
WNDR did have the PAMS "Good Guy" jingles for all the jocks in 1967 and showed all the "Good Guys" on their "Sing-A-Long" survey. The "Good Guys" were promoted, although not excessively.

In cities with 2 top-40 stations, usually one had the "Good Guys" and the other had the "All Americans", like WNDR and WOLF.

You're not pissed because Jeff Price never got his own jingle, are you? :)
 
You're not pissed because Jeff Price never got his own jingle, are you? :)

Not familiar with Jeff Price. Don't know who he is.
 
I have a couple of those Pams from 1967. Would that put WNDR before WTLB? I am pissed about Jeff Price although I have no idea who he is.
You guys should check out the funnnnnn jingles too.
 
Hey, "Owner", I was just joking with you. You must have a short memory... Jeff Price was your air name at WNDR, and I have airchecks from 1987 to prove it!
 
I've been looking through my airchecks - some 2700 tapes - and so far I've found Brian Ocean at Great Gold 1260, Brian Hofer for Jim O'Brien on AM only (with Marty Santy doing news), as well as one from WUUU and several from 93Q. I've listened to the WNDR stuff to verify that the tapes are labelled correctly.

I'm still searching for the Jeff Price aircheck. Not finding it is driving me crazy, because I just saw it about a week ago.

I'll let you know when I find it and maybe I can e-mail you a 'scoped aircheck.
 
I'm not sure how to post them so that anyone can access them. If anyone can help, please advise.

I'm still looking; I spent 90 minutes yesterday, and not finding that tape is really driving me bonkers.
 
I don't think you can download air checks directly to this site. If you can set up your own page you can link it to here. WNDR does have a tribute page with air checks on it. http://radiotimeline.com/am1260wndr.htm Maybe you could contribute what you have to that site. WNDR, also has a FaceBook page, as does WTLB.
 
Speaking of "good guys", that liner was first used very briefly in 1961 by New York's WABC. But they dumped it shortly after starting it, because GM Hal Neal thought another catch phrase might work even better...he started a PR campaign calling his jocks "The All-Americans." Leonard Goldenson and the people in the corporate executive suite loved it because of the obvious reference to the company that owned it, the American Broadcasting Company. ABC was trying to stamp its brand on everything it did. Since both the radio group and the TV division enjoyed a lot of growth during the 60s after a rough decade that preceded them, it must have worked...

Meanwhile the "good guys" moniker became available to a lot of stations that used it effectively across the country.
 
"good guys", that liner was first used very briefly in 1961 by New York's WABC.

The Good Guys image was picked up by WMCA after WABC discarded it? Didn't know that!
 
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