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WKLR jingles

yes. If memory serves me correctly they were Jam. Someone has a copy somewhere. Marshall Such in Dallas probably has them...Google him.
 
KLR used two different jingle packages during their life. Sean Matthews, production at WIBC may have copies. There was also an ID liner package at the beginning when KLR was classic hits using then Letterman announcer Bill Wendell over a Late Night sounding bed giving some local relates...."from the city where we don't want to make any money...we just love to sell guns...this is WKLR, Indianapolis."
 
They officialy went "oldies" on April Fools day 1988 to be exact. The format and it's calls both ended in 1994. I agree with you, I wasn't really a big fan of their Jingles either. Generic and a little boring. Great format for the times, nothing that would really work today though.

Some very nice folks worked at KLR. Dennis Jon Bailey was great, and very talented. Others were Tammy Lively, Steve Simpson, and Kevin Murphy. There were more of course, I just can't remember them off the top of my head.
 
During most of their run as WKLR, they used the TM jingle package "Synchronism".
I thought they were great jingles. I have a copy of the package for KLUV in Dallas, but was never able to get a dub of the WKLR sing.
 
When WQFE in Brownsburg became WKLU and switched to oldies, they had the exact, same jingle package. It was their attempt to pick up where WKLR left off...this was about the same time Shirk was pulling his shenanagins on 106.7 with oldies.
 
Man that brings back some memories... i used to love KLR and the original WNAP liners... WZPL and Q-95 used to have good sweepers back then, as did WFMS 95.5... I miss the old sound of those stations.. Also, a bit later on... Does anyone have sweepers of either B-106.5 Washington-Vincenses or when they where Electric 106.5... they were a rock leaning CHR at first, but B106.5 evolved to a very dance leaning CHR from 91-93 when they died..... Id also like to find some sweepers and-or airchecks from the original 102.7 WPFR-Power 103 before they went dark and ended the top 40 format in 1991,,,,,Bubba the love sponge started there.... lol I know no one has any of these, but Bob on the Job knows that the old CHR format in Seymour... Z-93.7 THE HEAT had a great format and imaging, and even the early days when they went country as QKC on that flame thrower signal had a nice mix of current and classic country....

Later than that... 104.5 THE BEAR with their youth friendly Country Format and their ROAR sweepers, and the Original concept when Bill Shirk took on THE BEAR at 106.7 with another young country format before flipping to Oldies, and then Urban AC, and then Mainstream Urban G-106.7 to take on TLC,,, then WHHH was leaning more CHR-Dance to take on WZPL.... then ZPL was called Party Radio and was a dance friendly CHR for a few years....
 
JAM Jingles at WRTB... We had a 'stereo simulator' by Orban on a dedicated cart machine, strickly for jingles... All the other stuff on cart ran dual mono into our stereo programming..... Our music was 100% stereo and yet with that (forgot the name) Orban piece, our Jingles and selected music oriented commericals rocked.. We had the UREI compressor for the mics at 20 to 1 ratio (at times 12/1 when Jim would do his quarterly proofs of the studio).... Our 8100A was smokin' into a 15k stereo line that only ran about 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile to the tower (low loss and full fidelity)....LOUD and punchy..... Danny Wayne understood the rural nature of the audience and yet was able to get some good dance stuff on (only the best) between the Bon Jovi, Bryan Adams and Poison.... ;D
 
Where was the WTRB studio at this time? Wasn't it on Van Trees street? I ask because that's quite a bit more than a mile to the TX site.
 
By the way the crow flies, I estimated about a mile.. I went on Maptech and then put the coordinates into the FCC distance finder with Azimuth reading.. Results from '3 East Vantrees' to the tower on the near southeast side of Washington: .703 miles/1.132 kilometers at a southeast bearing of 126.95 degrees. Remember, WAMW-AM was on that tower prior to Greene's (not Green) Electronics building the new AM/FM site west of town and across the river and county line on the ridge east of Wheatland (Knox County)....
 
Keith Kidd said:
I have a few. I made a page and uploaded them at a website I'm working on if you want to hear them.

Click here >>> http://www.qzootampa.com/wklr.html
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These are the 1992 - 1994 "Oldies 93" jingles.

I have the older late 80s to early 90s TM Century Synchronism package. I also have many music montage promos (we called them "A" Promos - had 'em on red labels) and the sales promos (called "B" promos - had 'em on yellow labels) and recycle promos (green labels) archived.

I need to get a website together and get this stuff up. I have tons of the original WKLR memos and more than several pages of music logs.
 
These are the 1992 - 1994 "Oldies 93" jingles.

I have the older late 80s to early 90s TM Century Synchronism package. I also have many music montage promos (we called them "A" Promos - had 'em on red labels) and the sales promos (called "B" promos - had 'em on yellow labels) and recycle promos (green labels) archived.

I need to get a website together and get this stuff up. I have tons of the original WKLR memos and more than several pages of music logs.

WHY, didn't this station make it?
 
> WHY, didn't this station make it?

Actually, WKLR did make it.
They were in the top 5 during most of their run, and even in the final years they were pulling down a 5-6 share in 12+.
It was kind of like GOLD 104.5. Very well programmed, great talent and good numbers, but they skewed toward the old demos, and advertisers like 18-34.
Many of us scratched our heads when they pulled the plug on WKLR, much as we did when Susquehanna pulled the plug on GOLD 104.5.
WKLR was very successful for many years, and was my favorite station in the 80's.
 
Thanks Keith! I can't wait to see the Q105 tribute site. Do you need any help with it?
 
Actually, it has little to do with Q105. It is a tribute to honor the original concept creation of the Q Z00 and the program that represents it that aired in Tampa over at Q105.

Mostly production stuff at this stage. I've digitized a whole shelf full of the ZOO, and still have more to go. It will broadcast in "live mode" as the shows will be streamed one after another. The work involved now is opening the shows back up in Adobe Audition and micro slicing between station jingles and the music, or the banter and the music, and saving the music as separate files so that I can enter information into the auotmater about the songs, title, artist, year. I have to do this with music beds as well because Cleveland and McKeever liked to play various ones in the early years. If it's done right, which it will be, listners will not be able to tell the show was sliced up in such a manner. It's definitely a lot of work. Sound like fun? :eek:
 
jimbo700 said:
> WHY, didn't this station make it?

Actually, WKLR did make it.
They were in the top 5 during most of their run, and even in the final years they were pulling down a 5-6 share in 12+.
It was kind of like GOLD 104.5. Very well programmed, great talent and good numbers, but they skewed toward the old demos, and advertisers like 18-34.
Many of us scratched our heads when they pulled the plug on WKLR, much as we did when Susquehanna pulled the plug on GOLD 104.5.
WKLR was very successful for many years, and was my favorite station in the 80's.
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no, "Lame" sales department who didn't understand how to sell anyone over 35 killed KLR.
 
cspotrun said:
These are the 1992 - 1994 "Oldies 93" jingles.

I have the older late 80s to early 90s TM Century Synchronism package. I also have many music montage promos (we called them "A" Promos - had 'em on red labels) and the sales promos (called "B" promos - had 'em on yellow labels) and recycle promos (green labels) archived.

I need to get a website together and get this stuff up. I have tons of the original WKLR memos and more than several pages of music logs.

WHY, didn't this station make it?
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Hey cspotrun, can you upload the package so we can hear how it sounded like for WKLR?
 
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