Wednesday, May 9 2012

2012 Radio Ad

    I’ve been recording WCSX since Saturday, but I got the new commercial off WYCD after only an hour! From 99.5 WYCD Detroit’s Country, at 6:10 EDT this morning…

    Update: a slightly improved version of this commercial, recorded at around 11:40 AM EDT (also off WYCD), was added to the podcast feed, at around 4:10 PM.

Sunday, May 6 2012

2012 Newspaper Ad

    Here’s the ad from the Detroit Free Press Sunday edition, Entertainment section, page 5E.

The 2012 ad

    Tailgating starts at 8 AM?!?!?  Could there be such a thing as too much partying?  Those poor parking lot attendants don’t know what they’re in for.
    Update: from the concert page at the Olympia Entertainment website, here’s the website splash page ad and the webpage banner ad.

Friday, May 4 2012

It’s Official

    The rumor at Buffett World has come true.
    It was announced today that Jimmy Buffett will be playing Comerica Park on Saturday, July 28.  And for any naysayers who were afraid there would not be any tailgating, the promoters are promising “[a] daylong ‘Buffett’s Beach Party’ will be held on the grounds outside Comerica Park, where a lounge, margarita tastings, midway games and other frills will be in place for the legion of partying Parrothead fans.”
    Here’s the Detroit News‘s write-up.  Here’s the Detroit Free Press‘s.
    And this banner was on the Freep’s front page.

Front page news

    Update: here’s the Free Press‘s article, in full, from page 1C.
    Update update: here’s the concert page at the Olympia Entertainment website.

Sunday, March 13 2011

2011 Newspaper Ad

    Palacenet.com, the website for the Meadowbrook and Pine Knob (DTE Energy) amphitheaters and the Palace of Auburn Hills arena, had Buffett’s ad as the sole image for their front page.  This splash page is no more, but you can still see the image here.
    It took a few days, but the Detroit Free Press finally printed this year’s concert ad today, Sunday.  Presumably this is our first look at the “Fin Land” logo.

Detroit Free Press, “Entertainment + Travel”, page 3E. Sunday, March 13.

Wednesday, March 9 2011

2011 Radio Ad(s)

    Having learned yesterday, via Buffett World, that WOMC 104.3 had broken the news of a July 21 Pine Knob concert, I kept my recorder tuned to WOMC this morning to attempt capturing this year’s radio commercial.  I recorded four hours this morning (an hour forty-five of which was silence…grrrr) and another two hours this afternoon.  WOMC broadcast the ad at 12:40 PM.

    The ad is shorter than usual, only :30, and I’m not sure if this is a cost-saving measure or if there might be a :60 version out there too.  There was no newspaper ad this morning in the Detroit Free Press so I’m keeping an eye out for that as well.
    Update: I managed to catch the :60 version Friday, March 11, on WCSX 94.7.  I recorded six hours of them this morning and, listening back to the files, encountered the ad after only fourteen minutes (having aired at around 6:20 AM, I guess).  Quite the opposite of how it usually goes…

Saturday, June 26 2010

Ad for the July 1 Concert

    Update: errm, according to late-breaking news on June 28, make that the “Ad for the July 11 Concert”...

Scanned from Entertainment Weekly #1109, page 64

Thursday, February 18 2010

2010 Radio Ad

    Since our soon-to-be released Episode 121 includes lengthy talk of trying to record this year’s radio ad, consider this a spoiler.

    Recorded at quarter after 7 this morning, off 94.7 WCSX FM.  It’s not the best quality (it’s in mono, for one thing), so hopefully I’ll be able to replace it soon.
    Update: I was able to record a better version on Friday, at around 6:40 AM.  I’ve replaced the above version with the new one, but, for the heck of it, the original can still be heard here.  Incidentally, from the needless information department: the ending of the stereo one got a little clipped, but I was able to “restore” it by blending in the longer ending from the mono one.