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We Broke ESPN 101′s Promo Format Equation


Posted by The Editor on 23 Jun 2010 /
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If you’ve even listen to 101 ESPN, the city’s leading sports talk station, you’ve no doubt heard their promos.

“Randy Karraker rides his bike to work…”

“D’Marco Farr is blah blah…”

“Bob Ramsey something…”

How do they do it?! How do they make such great promos that never* want to make you bash your head against the dashboard and then hit the dial so hard you break your radio? Well we took the promos the lab and tried to figure out their secret. It took a lot of work, at least three beakers with blue liquid bubbling over, at least one of those twirly drippy things, and two lab coats, but we got it!

The secret formula to the 101 ESPN promo is…

[Personality Name] is/does [something wacky] but that just [something awesome] + [rarely audible movie quote] + Hear [name] on 101 ESPN!

The key here is the inaudible movie quote in the middle. That’s what takes this normal promo and makes its special enough that we never* hear them and then make eye-contact with the car next to us and realize he’s also contemplating suicide and make a mental pact to drive in to one another hopefully either killing us or at least destroying our radios in the crash.

Look, we know you are the sports talk “leader” and you don’t have to try at this point with the other guy buying up crap like old lady at an antique store, but these promos have to stop. Enough with the horrible movie quotes!

* By never, we mean always.


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More Horrible Local TV Promos: “Here’s 2 St. Louis” From Fox 2


Posted by The Editor on 04 Feb 2009 /
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I’m sure most of you remember this one: “Here’s 2 St. Louis”  the promo when KTVI tried to make us feel warm and fuzzy about a place that has “the class of a city and the heart of a town” so we would forget about the mess that was the “channel 12 is now channel 2 and channel 2 is now channel 12″ mess a few years back. 

Before you click over the jump to view the video, check out my favorite still frame from it:

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Dick Ford and Dave Murry sitting out on a riverboat or something enjoying the day, pointing out the sites.  Are we to believe that this is what they do on their days off?  They hang out like an old gay couple?  God I hope thats true.

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Found: KMOV’s Channel 4 Newsbusters Promo


Posted by The Editor on 04 Feb 2009 /
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Oh channel 4.  You bring us so much with this old promo riffing off The Ghostbusters…but the best thing?  A sexy Julius Hunter rocking the BlueBlockers seen above.

Click through to the jump to see the whole Newsbusters promo.

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