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what is(or was)your favorite top of the hour station i.d.??

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vonrollskyway1

my all time favorite is power 106.from 1986 to 1992.very powerful!70,000 watts of music power(less talk)kpwr los angeles...power 106! ;D
 
I imagine the old KHJ, KFWB, and similar stations were probably the coolest, but I wasn't around then.

Of the ones I've heard, the KRTH jingle (pre-HD) and the KIIS-FM jingle are probably the best.

I don't know if they had "top of the hour" jingles, but KROQ used to have really creative production up to the mid-90s. K - R - O - Q! There was a real sense of fun and wackiness in them.
 
Double E and 70,000 Watts of Music POWER! And Roq of the 80's are the ones I remember the most.
 
My favorite from the past would be KHJ in 1976 when they were using the "YOU" jingles. Great energy.
KOST has had some really nice TOH jingles over the years but they've changed them every 2 years or so, sometimes every year so it's hard to pick one out that stands out. The 1st KOST ID Jingle from JAM in 1985 sounded pretty good. JAM also did the KIIS package in the mid 80's and they had a nice ID. The KBIG TOH ID's with the big voice of Chuck Riley belting out "It's 8 o'clock in the west... etc. That was a classic.
 
KFI in the 90s...with the late Marc Denis reading a seemingly endless rotation of very funny liners, including the ID over a rhthym track that became the news open. Also KMPC leading into their news opens in the late 60s and early-to-mid 70s.
 
And....the 1979 KHJ IDs with Paul Frees: "The Rhythm of Southern California" (singers: "93/KHJ") (Paul Frees: "Los Angeles.")

---Michael Hagerty
 
believe it or not...the old KBIG "it's __ o'clock in the west...at southern california's BIG FM"
( "K -B - I-G ...Los Angeles" sung)
 
Power 106's was cool...but it was "72,000 watts of music power"

This shows my age, but my favorite was the old KIQQ...simple but cool...went like this,

"Boom Boom (sound of a drum) It's three o'clock, at 100FM, K-I-Q-Q Los Angeles"
 
cm454 said:
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You are all participating in the single most radio-geeky thread of the past year!

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Good thing I took out the contacs and put my glasses on before I came here tonight. ;)
 
Casey Kasem with laser fx under:"From Highatop the Fisher Building in the heart of my hometown...Power 96 FM is WHYT, Detroit".

or perhaps the best station voice of all time- the late Len "Boom Boom" Goldberg..."You're listening to the radio station voted America's best...the FLAME THROWIN BUZZARD(sfx:pow pow pow!!!) WMMS, Cleveland!

or...another boom I.D..."SERVING 40 COUNTIES...3 STATES...2 COUNTRIES...AND YOU!!!...WMMS, CLEVELAND"

to this day I don't know who did them back around '79 all the way to late '84...(sonic boom sfx under:)"WGCL...(BOOM)...CLEVELAND"!!!
 
Favorite ones were those where the city of license was "burried". During it's Top 40 days; KEZY Anaheim with the c.o.l. read in lower volume out of the side of his mouth. Even better than that R & B 103.9 KACE Inglewood with the c.o.l bearly audible and mumbled. Actually the girl that did the XETRA T.J. one is spanish was cool and the really big voiced dude that did XEPRS Rosarito one during it's English music days was the best.
 
michael hagerty said:
And....the 1979 KHJ IDs with Paul Frees: "The Rhythm of Southern California" (singers: "93/KHJ") (Paul Frees: "Los Angeles.")

---Michael Hagerty
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I'll second that emotion. In that ID Frees did Orson Wells better than the man himself.
 
i dont know what i was thinking..i was just playing one of there old tapes in the car...72,000 watts of music power.i feel like a sinner.i wish there was a way to put that up on this board.
 
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