Word: storz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disk jockeys' convention was not all payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...
...tribute to the country doctor, but an ode to the disk jockey-the grey-flannelmouth who has all but swallowed up U.S. radio. It was the keynote of the first national convention of pop-music disk jockeys, sponsored in Kansas City, Mo. by young (33) Radio Chain Boss Todd Storz (TIME, June...
Lament. Amid some of their own praise for themselves ("A true disk jockey is a pretty humble man, even though it might not show through"), the spin-and-spielers set up a lament about such bosses as Host Storz, a onetime disk jockey whose four-station chain (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans, Miami) makes big profits out of relentless plugging of the "Top 40" pop tunes. They protested that this formula is turning the disk jockey into an automaton, stripping him of the "personality" that is his stock in trade...
...there to the Republican National Convention at his own expense. The Des Moines Ministerial Association was apoplectic when he accepted as a gift to the state the grand champion calf of the 1955 State Fair, only to discover later that the bearer of the gift was Omaha's Storz Brewing...
Enjoyed your story about R. Todd Storz, King of Giveaway. KOWH is one of the finest stations to listen to because of its music and news, and its commercials are often a riot to listen...