[PARENTAL ADVISORY: Profanity] On January 2nd, 1971, the FCC ban on commercial advertising for cigarette products on radio and television went into effect. The tobacco companies attributed much of their income from exposure on radio & TV. There was great concern that there would be a loss of sales due to the lack of such advertising. To address this opportunity, a radio programming format calling itself RADIO NORTH AMERICA was born. B. Mitchel Reed (at 0:00) Wolfman Jack (at 08:27) The Real Don Steele (at 16:33) RNA would consist of four radio superstars: Dick Biondi, Wolfman Jack, B. Mitchel Reed, and The Real Don Steele, doing their own shows via overnight radio, playing ‘top-40’ music — except for Reed, who would be playing ‘progressive rock’. All four jocks would originate their shows out of Los Angeles, but their radio signal would come from transmitters based in Mexico. The incentive was to use RNA to advertise cigarettes on the radio. Since the transmitters were licensed in Mexico, they would be out of the FCC’s power to ban such ads. Not only that, their superpower AM signals could reach a wide section of the country. To sell this idea to tobacco companies and advertising agencies, a multi-media presentation was produced by Cherrytree Productions (now defunct) of Los Angeles. Within this presentation, 16mm footage shot of the four DJ’s would be included. In reality, the four jocks were in a studio set of a radio station, and their patter was not actual broadcasts, just a mock show. RNA never came to be, and the project was abandoned. These “airchecks” are all from broadcasts that never were. All recordings came from the master Nagra 1/4″ reel-to-reel tapes used as the soundtrack to the film for the presentation reel.