[BC] Springer call signs
Donna Halper
dlh
Thu Jan 5 10:48:10 CST 2006
>Kirk wrote--
>Does WHAS still say that self-agrandizing ID:
>
>"The news you need to know, from the station you know you need. Depend on
>84, WHAS, Louisville."
Well, I know that we used to have our own joke versions of some of
broadcasting's more pompous sloganeering. How about: "When news breaks,
we fix it." Or "When news breaks, it stays broken." And then, there is
the legendary slogan for everyone who is puzzled by reporters doing
stand-ups late at night outside of empty buildings. "Nothing happened, and
we were there."
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