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

jimbo said:
Not a legal top of the hour id but I loved hearing this production for WTRG (Oldies 100.7) when I was living Raleigh NC in the early 90's.

Hear it yourself: http://www.divshare.com/download/3995543-092

They had several variants with each one naming different hole-in-the-wall locations at the end of the piece.
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Jimbo: I lived there at that time as well, and remember those! IIRC, they usually did that at 7 or 8 AM, during Ted Richard's show. WTRG was a great production, and I actually won contests from them, including a complete auto detailing (by singing the intro line of Chaka Khan & Rufus' 'Tell Me Something Good' on air) as well as $100, and the shot at winning either a new or classic Camaro. Real fun radio back then!
 
Not Los Angeles, but I think the all-time best is the late Ernie Anderson.

Shooting fire from the top of the Empire and Shaking the ground below.... WHTZ 100, New York.
 
For anyone in the Midwest who remembers the glory days of WIBC, Indianapolis....how about Chuck Riley's "Radio Indiana" TOH? They still use some of it, even though WIBC's now on the FM band. Riley also did a wicked TOH for their sister station WNAP (which is now the new WIBC). Just two more reasons to remember the late, great man.
 
In "Play Misty For Me" was that a real "KRML" jingle, or I.D they used? I know they used real station footage.
 
circlekkid said:
sixty four kfi
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64 KFI was a shout and was used out of stop sets and at quarter hours over music to hit posts. The legal i.d. was mostly done live.
 
John Harlow said:
Not Los Angeles, but I think the all-time best is the late Ernie Anderson.
Shooting fire from the top of the Empire and Shaking the ground below.... WHTZ 100, New York.
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He did KIIS, too...great voice over one of those killer jingle packages...
"From the top of Mt. Wilson...to the Open Pacific .... and BE--YOND. K-I-I-S fm & am" (and with attitude) "LAAAAAASSSSS angeles..."
 
RicoGregg said:
Worthy of mention:

The "classic" KRLA jingle with the legal mention "K-R-L-A, Pasadena", the four note horn fanfare, and the chorus shouting "GO!!!"

KNX-FM in the 70s, where a jingle would go:

Take each day as it comes,
Don't rush it by,
Don't you hurry it on by,
Make the most out of everyday,
To me along the way
(second voice)
Tune in the sound of...
Stereo 93, where the music is,
KNX-FM.

Then a laid back voice would say:
Stereo 93, KNX-FM, Los Angeles, Where the music is.

Finally, a true L.A. institution: (Chorus) KMPC, Los Angeles (horn note)
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I was a KRLA junkie in the early 60s (pre-KHJ), so I have to make a slight correction. It went:

Announcer: "Serving greater Los Angeles from Pasadena, KRLA!"

4 note fanfare followed by chorus yelling "GO!"

In those days, KRLA never did the legally required ID - call letters followed by city of license. Not sure how they got away with it.

My favorite, though, was KHJ in the early 70s starting with the dramatic instrumental fanfare building up to the jock jingle (Robert W. Morgan, the Real Don Steele, etc) followed by the jingle "KHJ, Los Angeles."

Baby boomers will remember the fanfare I'm referring to. It originally faded into a bed that the DJ would talk over ("3 O'Clock in Boss Angeles")," or whatever...but the most dramatic use came when they edited into the old jock jingles.

That same fanfare was used until recently by many Oldies stations that bought the Mann jingle packages. In fact, I'm pretty sure K-Earth used it for years.
 
The Drumroll and KRTH 101 ladies Jingle from the early 80's...classic!!
 
I definitely enjoy the quirkiness and interesting tactics used with legal IDs.

There are a bunch of Los Angeles legal IDs up at http://www.tophour.com. If anyone has any IDs to fill in the gaps (especially classic ones), I'd love to see them sent in there.
 
I got a CD of Power 106 sweepers from the guy who did them the 80s and 90s is still enjoy it to this day!

Less talk, POWER 106!!!!

You've got another 106 minute non-stop, 106-minute non-stop, P-P-P-Power play! Over 20 in a row! On your Power 106!

LAs Hottest Music!
 
Radio_bored-Op said:
"it's 5 o'clock in the west, and k-Big....."

(winter/jan-feb 2004)
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If the KBIG ID is a favorite check out the demo for the "Big Edition" jingle package on the JAM site. It's narrated by Charlie Tuna and features either a recreation or an actual aircheck of one of the K-BIG TOH ID's. Good stuff.
 
Sam Lit said:
Do you remember? from 1979? K-H-T-Z Los Angeles (kazzingg) K-HITS 97
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I think you are thinking of the "Oh Mi God". After the station was taken over by Greater Media from Storer, Bobby Rich first used the "Oh Mi God" that he used at the top of the hour at B-100 (KFM-BFM, San Diego) He may of used it at 99X in New York (I don't recall). Greater Media (east coast wimps at the time but now probably the best of the larger radio companies) later made Bobby change the format to become AC. That was a time when corporate couldn't hear the station from New Jersey (we'd often make sure the listen line which was installed at 3580 Wilshire but not prior at 338 S. Western not work). Whenever corporate came into town, Bobby would pull off all the more uptempo stuff until they left. That was a lot of fun as was Bobby's card file for selecting music rather than it being pre-programmed (I worked at KHTZ).
 
I am sitting here on the computer with the radio tuned to KFI and what do I hear at the top of the hour - 9:00 p.m. (Pacific time)? "64 K-F-I" [to music]...just like back in the day when they were Top 40! Perhaps somebody at KFI read this thread and decided to throw an old TOH ID just for us!
 
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