[BC] In the AM radio wars of the '60s, they talked big and talked back

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:49 AM 10/7/2009, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote: -------

>Rich, you are dating yourself!

Wouldn't that be incestuous?

>The days of "real" commercials, designed for real audiences, to sell 
>real products for real businesses are long gone. As an extra "voice" 
>sometimes used on cart tapes for local advertisements, I remember 
>recording the following drive-time commercial;

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>I have not heard anything like that on the radio since Paul Harvey! 
>Few stations bother to make special commercials for special 
>occasions. That's why you year the Christmas commercials well into January.

That's usually because production or traffic didn't put a kill date 
on the spot.

If things keep going the way they are Christmas spots and decorations 
will stay up all year long. Stores began decorating in September.

Rich