rebroscast of waba(florida?...last don and mike show?

waba jingle(top 40 music type jingle.
abc information network news intro exit music(70's?)without of the hour on the hourstatement.
??????

Ambien.

WTF????
62 are you on meth again or is all that Hannity and LimBLAH going to your brain???

62kgw has been hanging out with FRESH lately.

Does ANYONE know what the hell he was trying to say?

trying to describe things heard on 970 read it again.sould be clear/understandable to people with a brain!!!??I think there was an oldie in there too,Airheads!!!!

I'm going to guess he's saying that instead of the "AM 970 Solid State Radio" sweepers, breaks, and commercials, he heard what was coming off the satellite without anything else that's supposed to be there, like a top-of-the-hour ID.

This is nothing new when it comes to 970 - one time several years ago when Bob Rivers was simulcasted on 970 (I think these were the "Extreme Talk" days), I heard the end of a Tom Shane commercial, with a tagline advertising the Seattle location. This was followed by some other Seattle commercials, and at the top of the hour... "102.5 K-Z-O-K Seattle - The Classic Rock Station!"

I know what 62 is saying, and what he heard. Don's retiring, and they did a last-show extravaganza that included airchecks from their past. One was WAVA, their first station (I think) in a DC suburb, including a newscast that used the ABC Information Network sounder, but evidently not the format language in use at the time ("News of the hour, on the hour, from the American Information radio network"). Right, 62?

Thank you, Eastwood.

As usual, the kneejerk question could have been answered by 62 if only he had listened a little longer.

Rehab would be nice 62....

Old airchecks have a way of stirring up current radio reality, especially when they are rebroadcast over 5kw AM stations on 0.970 MHZ.

Its kind of like...Rod Serling's Twilight Zone..

doo dootdoo doo dootdoo doo dootdoo doot doot.....

...............( This is CBS )...........

thebrodcast on 970 of the waba newscastdid indeed have the abc information music,but without te of the hour on the hour stuff.I suspect abc gave the news music to the affilates to use for local newsback then.I have heard itmusic before on some stations around.early, the ending statement said "of the hour on the hour throughout the day....,lster they changed it to"of the hour on the hour around the clock...."before that changethe last newscast was at 10PM pacific, and the earliest was 3 AM PacificI recall some were from Los Angelas, some from New York and some from WasjingtonDC.the location was satated after the newscaster's namewas read.
the 7PM was called World news this evening,the 7am was called World news this morning. those lasted 15 minutes on some stations that played the whole thing.I recall some background music and sound effectson the 7PM news????I think 3PM was "news around the world"?I heard many of these newscasts on kex,komo,kpnw,kfre ? and KGO

(Pams Sounder) "News of the hour, on the hour, from American Information Radio. I'm Bob Gibson in New York, and at this hour...."

(Pams Sounder) "I'm Bob Gibson in New York. Hear news of the hour, on the hour, throughout the day from American Information Radio."
(Stinger) "A service of ABC News."

Remember: "World News Wrap-Up" at 9:00pm

I had a friend who worked at KABC in Los Angeles. He invited me in in the summer of 1974. I saw Merrill Muller do the 8p (PDT)ABC Information hourly newscast. ABC did their on the hour news from the west coast in those days. It was a junk studio and it had the usual stale smoke smell that all stations and studios had before smoking was banned indoors.

A service of ABC News????
I figured there was some Union deal in N.Y. that made it less expensive to do nites from LA?????

That was a little tag line they stuck on the end of the newscasts from all four of ABC's networks starting in the lake 60's (Information, FM, Entertainment, and Contemporary). My hazy memory is that they wanted to maintain some individual identity for each network, and avoid being prosecuted as a monopoly, though somebody older and smarter probably remembers the real history.

I do know that networks used to originate from owned-and-operated stations around the country, for various reasons. Muller'd go out of KABC, Lyle Dean did a newscast every day on ABC Contemporary from WLS (his brother Steve Alexander, former of KGW, is now a weekender at WGN). Virgil Dominick did NBC casts out of Cleveland, Robert Lazich did NBC evening casts out of KNBR in SF...

My favorite radio and TV reporter 'old timer' was Richard C. Honolith. Or is it Honalith, I dont remember, I guess I will have to google the guy...see if he is still alive...

I heard him doing a CBS newcast one day when I walked into our AM studio and KTCR Talk radio was on at the top of the hour, this was about 2003 or 4. I was surprised the guy was still around doing the hourly news ! He was a Cronkite contemporary and on TV for a long time too.

Richard C. Hottelet. (I'm likely wrong on the spelling, though...)

Most of those old school newscasters had pipes that lasted a LONG time...

Scotch.

I noticed that rehab helped 62.

Richard C. Hottelet is the last surviving member of the WWII era CBS news team known colloquially as "Murrow's Boys." According to Wikipedia, Hottelet still writes commentaries and does speaking engagements:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Hottelet

Thanks guys and Alfredo...I tried the Social Security Death Index and Google and I knew my spelling was wrong and you know how that goes working on the data bases, even the soundex and metaphone didnt give it to me... but late last night I just didnt have the energy to persue it much before bed, I did 5 hours OT and was beat to a pulp.

Hottelet is it? OK...And he had the pipes alright. He still had them the afternoon I heard him on CBS a few years ago ! I couldnt believe it was him. Cripes I used to listen to that guy doing the Top of the hour on KOIN AM when I was in Jr. High School ( 40 + years ago ) working in the AV room , the teacher liked KOIN...

I looked at wikipedia. It says he retired in 1985. I know I heard him doing a CBS newscast in 03 or so. Now that I think about it, it might have been on KALE not KTCR. KALE was still MOYL at that time and they were CBS. When they went ESPN, KTCR took CBS and dropped NBC. I bet it was some special nostalgia appearance or maybe he was subbing for someone. All I know is that it really surprised the holy heck outtah me when he signed his "out".

The Hottelet name rang a bell because I'm trying to finish reading A.M. Sperber's biography of Edward R. Murrow.

Ya, and that name is very rare indeed.

The surname Hottelet is represented only 7 times on the SSDI, Social Security Death Index. Currently the index has over 81 million listings of deceased persons that had social security numbers and did not have any dependents collecting benefits at the time of death.

And I was poking around in the SSDI. I brought up a Robert Lazich. One of the 3 listings looks like it could be the NBC Radio hourly anchor resident of KNBR back in the day. He would be the right age.

Robert Lazich : born 14, May 1931 died 21 Feb 2004, last residence Palm Springs, Riverside, Ca.
SSN issued Indiana.