Re: 93.7, The Prince... Mock Memo

["Bump Martin" <LJNF40C@prodigy.com>]

You now.....the more I read this the funnier it is!

(I think someone there at 93.7 got a hold of your mock memo!   "A NEW
station...for the NEW Milennium!)

How come you were'nt this funny on WCAP Bill?

:-)  LOL


BM



- -----Original Message-----
From: Bill O'Neill <billo@erols.com>
To: Boston Radio Group <boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 11:17 AM
Subject: 93.7, The Prince... Mock Memo


><sarcasm decidedly ON>
>MEMO TO LINGERING 93.7 STAFF:
>
>Let's blow up a radio station.  Hey, let's pick...."1999" and run it
>constantly!  Never been done before.  By doning such a genuine article
>for the transitioner, listeners will quickly learn, before even
>hearing our new format, that we _will_ be, um, different!  Yea, that's
>the ticket.  Just in time for when Boston area listeners have been
>boned, er, filleted, um, boinked, into believing that "new" is more
>than the sound made by a cow with a speech impediment.  Let's make the
>voice sound like...um.. a _computer generated voice!_  Computers..
>cool.
>
>We can extoll something like, "Finally, a new station for Boston."
>How about, "Everybody's gonna be talkin' about 93.7.  Will you know
>what they are talkin' about?"  It'll be way cool.  By being ORIGINAL,
>April Fool's Day and all, _everybody_ will be all moist and ready to
>"lock us in and punch us up!"  They will be begging for "different."
>(Memo to self.  Run this by the consultant as a possible phase 2
>liner.)
>
>How many "dead Eagle" jokes can we commission in time for Monday?
>(Sung drunk) "1999 dead eagles on the wall, 1999 dead eagles on the
>wall, if one of them should happen to reach maturity we'd
>(bladidybla)...1998 dead eagles on the wall....."
>
>Um, uh, how about... "The eagle has landed...(screams)  Boston!  We
>have a problem! (fade up "1999" and sfx Prince scream.  Big boy voice
>under/out.)
>
>Someone stop me.... Repeat ten times, "New is good.  Good is new.  New
>is good....Then close with, "Finally, a station on the radio in Boston
>that is ...  3 dead eagles on the wall, 3 dea...
>
><sarcasm tentatively OFF>
>
>Bill O'Neill
>

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