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Hear Revived Company's "Modern Jingles" For Oldies Radio Stations
It's a company called Thompson Creative, which disappeared for a while and has now resurfaced with a new series of jingles it promises can revive a station's sound. How much of that is provable is open to question.
And frankly, while they're great quality, I'm not actually crazy about everything I heard. There are a slew of singing IDs made just for oldies stations, but I'm not quite sure they fit the format as well as the PAMS re-sings.
I suppose it depends on how old the oldies you're playing are. There's a large number of demo reels online and you can decide what you think for yourself here.
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A number of stations in southern Ontario used Thompson jingles in the '90s and early 2000s... some examples include CIQB Barrie in the "B101" years (re-sing of the WQXI/94Q package); Magic 106.1 Guelph; CFLG Cornwall early in the "Variety 104" era (re-sing of the WVTY/Variety 96 package), and I believe Mix 99.9 also used a Thompson package.
These are nice refreshes, and an escape from the many re-sings from Seattle's ReelWorld... one can only tolerate so many re-sings of such packages as WLIT, Windy 100 (which Belleville's Mix 97 has been using for over 20 years now!), KIIS FM and KDWB.
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They're great jingles, but I'm just not sure the particular ones featured online "fit" on an oldies station. But I still love jingles. Although, sadly, many stations no longer really use them.
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RadioActive wrote:
It's a company called Thompson Creative, which disappeared for a while and has now resurfaced with a new series of jingles it promises can revive a station's sound. How much of that is provable is open to question.
And frankly, while they're great quality, I'm not actually crazy about everything I heard. There are a slew of singing IDs made just for oldies stations, but I'm not quite sure they fit the format as well as the PAMS re-sings.
I suppose it depends on how old the oldies you're playing are. There's a large number of demo reels online and you can decide what you think for yourself here.
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What does this alternate link have to do with jingles? Also, I’ve never heard of the term “re-sings.” Whazzat?
Thanks.
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Re: Hear Revived Company's "Modern Jingles" For Oldies Radio Stations
It's a company called Thompson Creative, which disappeared for a while and has now resurfaced with a new series of jingles it promises can revive a station's sound. How much of that is provable is open to question.
And frankly, while they're great quality, I'm not actually crazy about everything I heard. There are a slew of singing IDs made just for oldies stations, but I'm not quite sure they fit the format as well as the PAMS re-sings.
I suppose it depends on how old the oldies you're playing are. There's a large number of demo reels online and you can decide what you think for yourself here.
Alternate link:
What does this alternate link have to do with jingles? Also, I’ve never heard of the term “re-sings.” Whazzat?
Thanks.
Wow. Not sure how my computer glitched like that, but it apparently remembered an old address in its cache. (It related to this story.)
Here's the right link. (I hope.) Shame on me for not catching it. I usually double check, but got distracted by something. My apologies to all our fellow clickers!
As for re-sings, it's a term I use for those old PAMS jingles where they gather a crew to recreate using the old beds so they sound similar to the ones we all know from the CHUM era. Those jingles, while they tended to be long, were indicative of a time and place that no longer exists. But boy, were they memorable.
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>> Wow. Not sure how my computer glitched like that, but it apparently remembered an old address in its cache. (It related to this story.)
Here's the right link. (I hope.) Shame on me for not catching it. I usually double check, but got distracted by something. My apologies to all our fellow clickers!
As for re-sings, it's a term I use for those old PAMS jingles where they gather a crew to recreate using the old beds so they sound similar to the ones we all know from the CHUM era. Those jingles, while they tended to be long, were indicative of a time and place that no longer exists. But boy, were they memorable. <<
OK, my problem, I guess. I never listened to CHUM. Just kidding. Too long was my first thought. Also didn’t
like the quality (highs).
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