Author Topic: Television Production Music Museum (Read 16154 times)

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #30 on:** January 15, 2008, 09:11:49 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'175064\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 09:00 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' post=\'175061\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 05:31 PM\']
I know the gentleman who owns and operates the site.[/quote]
Good enough for me. That was the endorsement I was lookin' for.

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There are still parts of this that vaguely trouble me. (There's just something wrong about stealing information about copyright protection.) But if Randy vouches for it, then that's good enough for me too.

chris319 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 15, 2008, 09:58:56 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'175058\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 05:18 PM\']
Tomorrow's headline:

NEW GM TAKES WHIZ TO NEW HEIGHTS
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I like my slogan: "WHIZ is all over the news".

BrandonFG · « **Reply #32 on:** January 15, 2008, 10:06:27 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'175070\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 09:58 PM\']
I like my slogan: "WHIZ is all over the news".
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Are their short news updates known as WHIZ Breaks?

Robert Hutchinson · « **Reply #33 on:** January 15, 2008, 10:20:02 PM »

[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'175050\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 08:00 PM\']I can currently throw a rock and hit the WHIZ TV Studio where I am sitting right now.[/quote]
Note to other posters: if you are currently very near the KROQ studios, I absolutely do not want to hear what you plan to hit them with.

DrBear · « **Reply #34 on:** January 15, 2008, 10:23:32 PM »

WHIZ ... is its sister station WEEE?

(OBGS: would its high school bowl program be called WHIZ Kids?)

tvwxman · « **Reply #35 on:** January 15, 2008, 10:29:03 PM »

[quote name=\'bwood\' post=\'175055\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 08:09 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'175053\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 08:03 PM\']
I picked WHIZ just as a goofy set of call letters, but first did my due diligence and checked to see if there actually is a TV station with those call letters, which naturally there is.
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Well, I'm still laughing. That's crazy stuff. It stands for "We're Here In Zanesville". And, like I said before, is not the greatest station of all time (NBC afil), but they have picked up some syndicated game shows in the past that nobody else has, and for that I can get past the "amateurness" that they present (I could do better news stories with my camcorder).
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Adding my brush with WHIZ greatness.

In 1994, I, a mere pup fresh out of college, got a call from the News Director (whom I believe is still WHIZzin'), and after a 6 hour drive to Zanesville, offered me a job as weekend weatherman.

I passed.

But, for all kids reading who want to be in local news, the rule of thumb is : never turn down a job into the business you want to be in. I don't regret it now, but it was 6 months until my 2nd job offer (which I took), and for each one of those nights in those 6 months, I wondered if I had turned down a good job.

tvrandywest · « **Reply #36 on:** January 15, 2008, 11:07:14 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'175067\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 06:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'175064\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 09:00 PM\']
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' post=\'175061\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 05:31 PM\']
I know the gentleman who owns and operates the site.[/quote]
Good enough for me. That was the endorsement I was lookin' for.

[/quote]
There are still parts of this that vaguely trouble me. (There's just something wrong about stealing information about copyright protection.) But if Randy vouches for it, then that's good enough for me too.[/quote]
Vouching? Well I ain't co-signing no freakin' loan! But he is a sane person in the entertainment biz who is passionate about the classic music and has been on a quest to preserve it for at least the 5 years that I've known him. That's enough for me.

Randy
tvrandywest.com

chris319 · « **Reply #37 on:** January 16, 2008, 06:02:17 AM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'175071\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 07:06 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'175070\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 09:58 PM\']
I like my slogan: "WHIZ is all over the news".
[/quote]
Are their short news updates known as WHIZ Breaks?
[/quote]
Amen, brother Herbert.

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #38 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:42:39 AM »

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'175077\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 10:23 PM\']
(OBGS: would its high school bowl program be called WHIZ Kids?)
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Well, if Chip Beall wanted to move his program from Texas to there, it could be QUIZ WHIZ!! (as it was in Dallas because Quiz WFAA doesn't work)

(OBGS: Beall is a 3-time J! champ)

Clay Zambo · « **Reply #39 on:** January 16, 2008, 10:18:50 AM »

I went to school in Athens, which is near enough to Zanesville that they were my local TV news provider. That part of Ohio is big in dairy farming--not Wisconsin big, but plenty of production. There were some farmers who started making this great artisanal cheddar, which of course got them a story on the station, even though nobody else covered it. The story was so popular it turned into a recurring feature.

*wait for it*

They called it Cheese WHIZ.

*ducks*

mrchips · « **Reply #40 on:** January 16, 2008, 11:12:30 AM »

(downs antacid from all the WHIZ Wit)

/only as directed
//nonetheless, yum

uncamark · « **Reply #41 on:** January 16, 2008, 04:05:42 PM »

It's also WHIZ [Gary Owens] AM and FM. [GO] (The FM's "Z102.")

I can just see the front of the sales brochure--"Do you want to reach audiences in the Zanesville area? Take a WHIZ!"

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #42 on:** January 16, 2008, 04:18:53 PM »

I wonder if there’s a 2nd Thicke album around somewhere. Wheel of Fortune and a couple of other shows added several new Thicke cues in the late ‘70s - none of which are on that first album - and then there’s that elusive Whew theme.

I loved hearing that Celebrity Sweepstakes theme again for the first time in 31 years! From watching the show back then I knew the tune from memory, but it’s nice to actually hear it again. For the record, that theme was the 2nd theme, used right up until the summer of 1976 when they changed the show’s format. They reverted back to the first theme after that.

There is a 1-minute promo from KNBC’s nighttime airing of the show floating around, and you can hear a brief portion of the 2nd theme there.

/Still hoping for more episodes of this show to surface...

bwood · « **Reply #43 on:** January 16, 2008, 05:10:36 PM »

[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'175077\' date=\'Jan 15 2008, 10:23 PM\']
(OBGS: would its high school bowl program be called WHIZ Kids?)
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That program would be called "High School Honor Society". I was on it with my school numerous times. It taped in the basement lobby of the radio station across the street (not kidding).

Chief-O · « **Reply #44 on:** January 16, 2008, 08:20:03 PM »

[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'175138\' date=\'Jan 16 2008, 03:18 PM\']
I wonder if there’s a 2nd Thicke album around somewhere. Wheel of Fortune and a couple of other shows added several new Thicke cues in the late ‘70s - none of which are on that first album - and then there’s that elusive Whew theme.
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Not to mention the "Stumpers" theme. That was from '75, wasn't it??? I'm surprised it wasn't on this album.

Author Topic: Television Production Music Museum (Read 16154 times)

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