Dave Bethell of TM Studios, shown at his work area in Los Angeles. If a program director from the 1970s or ’80s were dropped into a radio station in 2019, he or she would not recognize the sound of ...

Just a few decades ago, a catchy jingle was the trademark of any Top 40 radio station. The Not-So-Distant History Of Radio Jingles Many people of a certain generation ...

This will make me sound old, but here goes: "Back in my day," TV watching was much different. Way before VHS, DVD, or streaming, we had to sit in front of the television and watch commercials between ...

Music Oasis, the new owner of Thompson Creative, has made over 1,700 Thompson jingles available to radio stations and individuals once again. Thompson was founded in 1986 and created unique jingles ...

For a time in the 1980s — the MTV era of Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Madonna and countless others — Scott Shapiro and Jeff Turk were spinning top-40 hits at local radio station Hot 95.9 WNPQ-FM.