KABC-AM Teams Up with KDOC

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What is sure to be a winning crossover promo KABC-AM has teamed up with KDOC in a cross promotion where those who watch reruns of "Law and Order" every night are given a secret time to call Doug McIntyre on KABC the next morning and win $1,000.

Could one of L.A.'s lowest rated radio stations working with one of L.A.'s lowest rated television stations be a winning dynamic?

[Bug on the rug]

Must be Silver's hair-brained idea!

[ChannelFlipper]

This was my LOL moment of the week last week when I saw this. What, KVCR wasn't available?

The last time I watched KDOC was after midnight decades ago when Wally George was on and kicking dopey stooge libs off of his stage to raucus cheers from his studio audience.

Unfortunately for KABC, Wally has passed on, otherwise they could really use him from 6 to 9, among other timeslots.

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Unfortunately for KABC, Wally has passed on, otherwise they could really use him from 6 to 9, among other timeslots.

Oddly enough, there happens to be a stash of Wally's TV tapes housed at UCLA.  90+ if I recall.

Presto!  Wally's back on the air. 

[westfield60]

What was even more funny about this was that the in order to win this money you had to watch the show on KDOC - at 7pm.

How many people under the age of 70 are done with their day to be able to sit down for TV viewing at 7.00 pm?

[SuperRadioFan]

What was even more funny about this was that the in order to win this money you had to watch the show on KDOC - at 7pm.

How many people under the age of 70 are done with their day to be able to sit down for TV viewing at 7.00 pm?

Watch the show??  Don't you have a DVR already?   

PS back in '89 me and my rowdy friends attended a taping of Wally's show.  The studio was unbelievably small.  During a break, a few of the guys explored and wound up in a production room.... and were promptly 86ed.

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I think the last time Wally George was on radio was in the mid-1990s on KIK-FM 94.3.

If memory serves correctly I think he had a show on 94.3 on Saturday, or Sunday, evenings where he talked and played music.

I think the last radio talk show George had was in the early 1990s during one of KLAC's many attempts at talk radio.

Also, didn't George have a show at one point in the 1980s on KMPC when they were talk?

His show on KDOC in the 80s often featured a lot of local deejays, like Rick Dees, Poorman, plenty of the jocks from KNAC, among others, involved in the yelling contest and theatrics.

Several times over the years George tried to go national, but it never took off and he was more of a Southern California thing.

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I think the last time Wally George was on radio was in the mid-1990s on KIK-FM 94.3.

If memory serves correctly I think he had a show on 94.3 on Saturday, or Sunday, evenings where he talked and played music.

I think the last radio talk show George had was in the early 1990s during one of KLAC's many attempts at talk radio.

Also, didn't George have a show at one point in the 1980s on KMPC when they were talk?

His show on KDOC in the 80s often featured a lot of local deejays, like Rick Dees, Poorman, plenty of the jocks from KNAC, among others, involved in the yelling contest and theatrics.

Several times over the years George tried to go national, but it never took off and he was more of a Southern California thing.

Someone in my old aircheck/radio circle had a tape of Wally from KIK-FM.  Sixty minutes.  The same person, who shall remain nameless, told me some interesting stories about owner Art Astor as well.  The person mailed a copy and it's quite an interesting adventure in radio, co-hosted by Rick Shaw.

[henry]

KABC and KDOC seem like a good team.  The make a similar sized dent in their respective ratings.

Just kidding.  I could never be that mean to KDOC.