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PROOF THAT RADIO DOESN’T HAVE TO BE DEAD

This is one of my all-time favorite station promos.

If it doesn’t make you smile, that’s okay. Just means it doesn’t fit your taste or sensibility.

But if it does make you smile — or, as I do, respond with awe at its brave creativity — a reminder: The people who did this 40 – 50 years ago didn’t have 1/10 of the production tools available to you today.

All they had was an idea. And a “what if…?” And the desire to find out.

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  • Voice Over Work Out Lounge December 27, 2008, 3:03 am

    Brilliant. What an idea — thanks for the laugh, Dan.

  • Chris December 27, 2008, 4:46 am

    I love old radio production like that! Truly imaginative. Fun!

  • Eric C. Weaver December 27, 2008, 9:46 am

    Astounding! This sounds like the sort of thing Steve Allen used to do in his radio days. What a hoot. And it’s just as intelligible as the promos I hear on half the SF stations these days…

  • S!ick December 27, 2008, 9:59 am

    Thanks…reminders like this cause me to have some hope for the future of radio.

  • Jim Walsh December 28, 2008, 2:47 pm

    At the risk of sounding like I don’t get it…

    …I don’t get it…