Amazing what you can find on old Broadcast Carts.....

I have 100s of these things and the machines to play them on. The grandfather of the 8 track cartridge, celebrating 65 years old this year. I have music, PSAs, music, and old commericals on these things. If you ran a radio station from the 1960s into the mid 1990s, you bought into this format. They were replaced by computers, but the format was so prominent, the software was designed to look like a cart machine to assumingly making it easy to make the DJ's understand the computer. Who knows


The funny thing with this one, i'm amazed that this 37 year old spot never got erased as it was traditionally a format to air the spot for the specific dates then erased. In this case, it didn't and that's a good thing.


The narrator was Canadian Actor Percy Rodriguez which was an in demand voice over artist for Movie promotion in the 1970s and 1980s, besides his on screen roles in movies and television. He did the original Jaws trailers and promotion...yeah, we'll being him back for the sequel.



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All Good Things.....30 years later.....

It's been 30 years since the final 2 hour episode of Star Trek The Next Generation titled "All Good Things..." and the juggernaut that is probably the most successful science fiction franchise in history just keeps on going with one series wrapping up this month (Discovery) and another wrapping up production of season 3 (Strange New Worlds) in Toronto. It's technically been 60 years this year since the production of the first pilot "The Cage" in late 1964, with the series being 58 years old. The franchise has taken breaks periodically, but still has legions of fans intense about it's message and beliefs for a better world then exists today.

This little nugget was saved by me in 1994 when the local TV station would periodically buy time (or was it barter?) to promote various programs. Often it was news shows, but in this case it was a big deal. After 7 years, the show was ending and it was good to promote it. Paramount had the audio promos produced no doubt for this reason, to cross promote each ep on radio. Shipped on a reel to TV stations, it was tagged by a local announcer.


Sadly the 30 sec promo was lost, but the 60 sec remains and WOW, a lot is going on, but still very listenable. Voice by the king of the movie trailer's himself Don Lafontaine, it was slickly produced and after having it for so long, it's time to share here. The TV station slapped a local TV station label on the box, but I managed to get off a lot of the label to see it was marked for wiping before the spot was sent to the radio station. A dang shame


Enjoy what we have here though.

Star Trek The Next Generation EP 747 "All Good Things".... :60 audio promo with slate

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Joseph Flaherty RIP

We start our first post of 2024 on a sad note, with the passing of Joe Flaherty veteran comic actor and comedian for decades but is probably best know for his characters on SCTV , including Big Jim McBob (of Farm Film Report fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson, and station owner/manager Guy Caballero, who goes around in a wheelchair only for respect and undeserved sympathy.

It is with the Guy Caballero character that we are going to look at on the Jetsam. The canadian movie channel First Choice, brought back Guy for a series of radio spots (and maybe TV? i'm not sure) to promote it's free preview in early 1991. They were so well written that maybe Joe or the SCTV crew were involved as it really went with the rather greasy nature of Guy on SCTV to promote something TV related. It was a great match really, and we are glad to have these spots live another day, despite the timely reason.

So enjoy these great pieces of comedy as they are part of a comedic icon's body of work for those of us that are a certain age. We visited the SCTV cast on a regular basis in the world of Melonville and will continue to do so. Thanks Joe.

1. Reception-FC-R-32-90-30E

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2. Hot Movies-FC-R-31-90-30E

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3. Dirty Movies-FC-R-29-90-30E

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4. Magic Fingers-FC-R-27-90-30E

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5. Cabin Fever-FC-R-28-90-30E

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6. 1-900-FC-R-30-90-30E

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