Name: Paul Harvey - The Bong Commercial by David Ferrell Jackson
Duration: 1 min 19 s
Description: Stand by for news! The legendary Paul Harvey reads an ad for ... marijuana bongs? Not really: it's a nicely-done cut-and-paste of several different Paul Harvey news pieces and ads, spliced together cleverly to create a now-famous commercial parody.

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July 9th, 2013

On December 27, 2013, long time Big 610 KFRC engineer, George Zema retired after more than 40 years in Bay Area broadcasting. For many years, George was an in studio engineer who ran the controls for many of the Big 610 air personalities. Including, Bobby Ocean (who nicknamed him "Flawless Segue") and, spent 8 years making the sound effects happen for Dr. Don Rose. When the Big 610 changed to Magic 61, George stayed on maintaining the equipment, working on the transmitter towers, IT work, and helped with the KFRC Mobile Studio. He along with Phil Lerza and Kent Hedberg, survived many ownership changes, and stations added to the portfolio, including: RKO (610 KFRC, 106.1 KFRC-FM),  Alliance Broadcasting (610 KFRC 99.7 KFRC-FM, 93.3 KYCY) Westinghouse, Infinity, Viacom and CBS Radio (106.9 KIFR, 106.9 KFRC-FM, 99.7 KMVQ, 105.3 KITS, and 1550 AM KZDG)

Here is part 1 of our tribute. You will hear some samples of George's work with Dr. Don on DDR's 10th Anniversary, October 14, 1983.

Congratulations George on your retirement!

Dr. Don Rose's 10th Anniversary 10/14/83 Tribute to George Zema Part 1

Stand by for news! The legendary Paul Harvey reads an ad for ... marijuana bongs? Not really: it's a nicely-done cut-and-paste of several different Paul Harvey news pieces and ads, spliced together cleverly to create a now-famous commercial parody.

Paul Harvey - The Bong Commercial

Who's that on the Wolfman telephone? Why, it's none other than Al Jardine of the Beach Boys.
 
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The archive includes two versions of the track:

Main version – 2:47

Second Version – 1:53

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A lone media activist courageously confronted
throngs of corporate media encamped outside of Laci and
Scott Peterson's home Wednesday in Modesto California.

January 29, 2003
Protester assaulted by corporate media
By Partytown Radio Network

MODESTO, CA: A lone media activist courageously confronted
throngs of corporate media encamped outside of Laci and
Scott Peterson's home Wednesday in Modesto California. The
Laci Peterson case has been one of the lead stories of the
corporate media since December 24th when she was reported
missing. While people go missing under suspicious
circumstances every day in the United States, this story
has captivated the public and is feeding the ravenous pack
of corporate media hyenas.

The brave activist known as "the last dj" was compelled to
reclaim the airwaves by interrupting live radio and
television broadcasts in front of the Peterson home. Radio
station KFI owned by Clear Channel and based out of Los
Angeles had been broadcasting live, verbally harrassing
the neighborhood and Mr. Peterson with a bullhorn on the
air.

The activist was engaged by two of the KFI talk show hosts
and questioned about the sign he carried and why he was
there protesting. The last dj expressed his dissapointment
in the way media exploits tragedy for profit and personal
gain. He confronted the show hosts about their company's
practices and expressed his outrage over consolidation of
the radio industry.

The large sign he carried featured lifesize head-shots of:
Eddie Frits, Chairman of the National Association of
Broadcasters; Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel; Steve
Hicks who's Capstar Broadcasting merged with Clear
Channel, and who's brother is on the Board of Directors;
and finally Michael Powell, Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission and son of General Colin Powell.
Bordering the pictures was "Enemies of Free Speech" in 12
inch tall letters. On the reverse side of the sign were
two blue bumperstickers with the slogans "I Don't Trust
the Corporate Media" and "Don't Trust the Corporate
Media" courtesy of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, a
media watchdog organization.

The interaction with the radio show allowed him to get
some airtime exposing a large audience to the truths about
media consolidation. As the live on air confrontation
began to escalate it was evident that the radio hosts were
reaching for response as they began to verbally assault
the activist live on the air. The hosts continued to stoop
to the level of personal attacks and derrogatory
name-calling.

The activist then turned his attention to a much larger
audience, as CNN was live on location doing the Larry King
Live show. Opportunity presented itself for a quick flash
of the sign before being confronted by a CNN staffer. The
activist was then threatened with bodily harm if he "got
in the shot again". This threat was made while on public
property in a community that the activist lives in and
serves.

Since the CNN segment was live for the East Coast, there
was a replay to monitor the happenings of the live
confrontation earlier that evening. The segment caught a
glimpse of the protest sign behind the local reporter. You
could hear the sounds of free speech escalate in the
background of the live audio feed. Mr. King asked the
reporter what was the noise going on in the background.
The reporter, Ted Rowland from KTVU Channel 2 out of San
Francisco, responded stating "it was a local Modestan
upset at the press for capitalizing on this tragedy". He
then commented incorrectly quipping sarcastically that
there were pictures of "Gary Condit and Scott Peterson on
the sign". You could then hear the activist shouting about
the "Telecommunications Act of 1996… and that this
wasn't news, that there is a war on"

The activist then departed the area unscathed and with a
strong message sent. He encourages others to seize the
opportunity to reclaim the airwaves and confront the
corporate media.

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Media activist courageously confronted throngs of corporate media using Direct Action.

As major network radio drama was winding down in the 1950s in favor of more news, talk, and music, NBC launched Monitor on June 12th, 1955 with this closed circuit broadcast. It was a true magazine of the air, running over NBC stations on Saturday mornings in four-hour blocks. When it first began, it ran until Midnight Sunday, completely taking over NBC’s airtime on the weekends. 

It was the brainchild of legendary NBC radio and television network president Sylvester (Pat) Weaver, whose career bridged classic radio and television's infancy and who sought to keep radio alive in a television age. Believing that broadcasting could and should educate as well as entertain, Weaver fashioned a series to do both with some of the best-remembered and best-regarded names in broadcasting, entertainment, journalism, and literature taking part.

Monitor offered actualities, remotes, comedy, and variety. Segments were hosted by and featured everyone from NBC announcers Dave Garroway and Ben Grauer, to baseball’s Red Barber, to Ms. Monitor Tedi Thurman who did weather reports, to comedians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. 

The show aired from a mammoth NBC studio in New York City called Radio Central, created especially for the program, on the fifth floor of the RCA Building in midtown Manhattan.

Monitor remained on the air until January 26th, 1975, exactly forty-four years before the time of this posting.

NBC's Monitor Debut Episode — 06/12/1955

John Prine stopped by the studios of San Francisco's KSAN (The Jive 95) somewhere around 1971 or 1972 and had his guitar in tow. When asked to do a quick "Station ID," John grabbed his guitar and whipped out this quick little tune. From the Bay Area Radio Museum Archives; the term "Heidi Dub" refers to a reel of tape, about an hour long, with an endless assortment of celebrity IDs and noises that served as imaging for KSAN – the box containing the reel was marked "Heidi Dub." Remastered in stereo by David Jackson; engineered and digitized by Andrew Welburn for CHRS/BARM.

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