Peggy Does San Diego. (new blog for Jan 23/17)

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Back when Buster Bodine, Reid Reker, and I all worked together at KPRI in San Diego we used to come up with some crazy promotions. One of the best though may have been our TV spot which ended up being banned from local TV.
We auditioned several well-endowed young ladies for the commercial which we planned on running on all the channels during their news. A girl by the name of Peggy who was simply breathtaking won the audition and the copy went something like this, “when Peggy hears KPRI’s music she just can’t control herself.” We put her in a bright yellow t-shirt with giant red KPRI call letters emblazoned breast high and had her dance around to samples of KPRI’s music. (of course she had no bra on, why would you do that?) Near the end of the spot when she appears to be in a near frenzy Peggy reaches down and starts to rip the shirt off and as it got to the bottom of her breasts we zoomed in and froze on the call letters.
Our plan was to run the commercial for a couple of weeks and then begin running a crawler on the bottom of the screen promising that next week Peggy takes the shirt off. We were very excited about the campaign until all the TV stations said that they couldn’t run it claiming that it was much too sexy. The only good thing that came about was that both newspapers, the Union and the Tribune did stories about our banned TV spot and even the TV stations ran portions of it in their newscast, strange huh?
Don Walker (pictured) who headed up our crack sales team and had a nose for money instantly came up with “Peggy Watch Parties” which he sold to the local clubs. He rented a giant TV with which to show the spot and at the bigger events even Peggy came along with Reid Reker as her personal driver and what went on with that I don’t know nor do I know if Peggy took her shirt off at any of the clubs because I was married and was not allowed out at night.
 
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2 thoughts on “Peggy Does San Diego. (new blog for Jan 23/17)

    • Isn’t it weird Bruce that it’s on Facebook first. That’s where I first heard about the FLL shooter which got me to turn on the TV and watch it live for a couple of hours.

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