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WSB Gets Creative

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trusty

Off the Air (This is probably what happened.)

"We gotta do it."
"You think the suits will find out?"
"I don't think they'll mind."
"But what about our "professionalism."
"Look, it's early Saturday morning. We've got the audio. It fits the story. We GOTTA do it."
"Yeah... well, it DOES fit the story..."
"Put it in."

On the Air (This is what happened.)

(Announcer) "There was a bear sighting in metro Atlanta. Authorities in North Fulton County perimeter area have been looking for a black bear since yesterday, but have not been able to find it."
(Audio of Yogi Bear) "Smarter than the average bear. Yabba-dabba-dooo.")
(Announcer) "In other news............."

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WSB is usually so "serious", and it shows. Have there been other occasions when they have gotten "creative"? (I remember listening to WGST when it was the "NewsMonster", and its newscasts were a little more entertaining because it was "serious" about competing with WSB. Hopefully, WSB can throw some more "creativity" into weekdays.)
 
The only time WSB-AM got creative was when Jeff Hullinger was on a few years ago. His WSB-AM newscasts were just brilliant. They were "driveway moments" for me. I'd go around the block just to get to the end of a newscast to see what he's say. Of course, back in the late 70's and 80's, WGST was just as good every day. When you had talent like Forrest Sawyer, Bob Coxe, Denis O'Hayer, Ted Vidgosky, Louse Schiavone, Dick Bielen (sp?) and many others, they beat the pants off WSB.
 
yes, jeff has a great picturesque delivery of radio news. his termination i don't believe was necessarily all money-saving. there was some bad blood in there somewhere but i'm not quite sure exactly what it was all about. and, yes wgst has a great history and all, but look where they are now and look where wsb is. pete spriggs is a visionary and has done wonders with the station, like it or not. i can't wait to hear the andy dean show overnights!
 
trusty said:
(Audio of Yogi Bear) "Smarter than the average bear. Yabba-dabba-dooo.")
(Announcer) "In other news............."
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Be careful with Yogi! George Jones sand a song with Yabba-dabba-dooo and got sued.
 
trusty said:
(Audio of Yogi Bear) "Smarter than the average bear. Yabba-dabba-dooo.")
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That could only have been said by the never-seen cartoon character, Yogi Flintstone, Fred's long lost brother who was raised by bears and lived in the prehistoric version of Jellystone Park, near Bedrock. He taught the bears to talk and it was passed down through the generations of bears and that is why Yogi and Boo-Boo can speak English so well.

I don't believe he was ever mentioned in any script, but it makes sense to me. ::)
 
That could only have been said by the never-seen cartoon character, Yogi Flintstone, Fred's long lost brother who was raised by bears and lived in the prehistoric version of Jellystone Park, near Bedrock. He taught the bears to talk and it was passed down through the generations of bears and that is why Yogi and Boo-Boo can speak English so well.

I don't believe he was ever mentioned in any script, but it makes sense to me.
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You are absolutely correct. George Jones used it in his defense to prove "Yabba-dabba-doo" was old enough to be in the public domain.
;)
 
One lonely Sunday morning on WGST, long before anyone should have been awake listening, Howard Gunter relayed a story about how someone had burgled a funeral home in Decatur and stolen a bunch of embalming fluid. Apparently it resembled booze in aroma and also in the way it was bottled.

So Howard noted the police were warning the public that drinking the stuff would leave you, well, stiff.

Bit of a pun, you see.

And then he went to about 10 minutes straight of commercials because he was laughing too much. On those early Sunday mornings, the jokes were very good.

WSB never stuck me as having a sense of humor. There was, however, the one Friday-Monday period where they continuously ran the same inconsequential "story" about Delta Airlines announcing something unimportant. The same little story ran in nearly every newscast for about four or five days straight. I heard later that they did this on purpose to see if anyone would notice. Yeah. We noticed. We thought your AJC subscription had lapsed and you hadn't dug up any new news to report and that was all you had. It was not very funny.
 
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