[ratnobMember]

Radio 4’s ‘PM’ news programme had a nice feature yesterday – a tribute to radio voices we miss (eg Kenny Everett, Terry Wogan and many others). It also happens to contain some jingles:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042nmmk

[radiocitybillMember]

There’s many that I miss, growing up and living within earshot of Arbitron’s number 1 market, NYC.

Who remembers Jack Spector, Dan Ingram, Herb Oscar Anderson, Robert Weston Smith (a/k/a/ “Wolfman Jack”) Dandy Dan Daniel Walt “Baby” Love (although he hosts a Gospel countdown show it’s nothing like back in the day) Charlie Greer and Frank Kingston Smith, just to name a quick few that come to mind.

I’d venture to say that probably many of us here grew up and/or heard radio back when it was the place to go for entertainment and information.

[nleibo]

I totally agree with you RCBill. I think what makes missing them all that much more is the PATHETIC “state” of Radio. Very few ENGAGING “personalities”. The “suits” have turned what COULD be “potential” talent into a bunch of “liner card” readers, punctuated by “Sweepers” every 15 minutes & “stop-sets” that typically exceed 3 minutes in duration–talk about “ear fatigue”. Between the FCC, Clinton’s De-regulation & the “bean counters”, the once proud “legacy” of ENTERTAINMENT on radio has been turned into mind-numbing boredom punctuated by repetivity…

[IainJohnston]

While this topic is running just a wee bit off jingle stuff…

Neil’s comments are exactly what appears on radio forums on BOTH sides of the Pond., and have done here with the increasing Americanisation & foreign ownership of our media of all kinds as cash-generating & border-crossing tax avoidance vehicles (c.f. utterly insolvent Clear Channel as an example in the States).

In so many situations generally, people always think their own situation is “local” but in reality the same degradation of whatever the service/product/etc is happens all over the place nowadays. But not everyone realises whats going on.

e.g. the reaming-out of the UK’s National Health Service by out-sourcing as much as possible to private companies (many of them American…sorry you guys!) at vastly inflated pricing while leaving an indebted “public” shell. Or indeed to “friends” of those that award contracts, as “alleged” in the news today.

And a zillion other examples. Divide & rule is the name of the game.

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[enerjee]

But, in the UK at least, we still have the BBC. If we ever lost the BBC then things would be much, much worse. It saves us from rampant wholesale commercialism and selling out.

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