Newsman Jay McKay is manning the MacKenzies in this bombastic backup to our original Britt Huey Fundamental newscast, one of the Repository’s original exhibits from February, 1996. This one, unfortunately, is missing the beginning teaser headlines, but is intact from the official opening all the way through to the grandiose “Count Down!” closer.
WFUN Program Director Frank Ward is featured commenting on a station promotion: DJ Bruce Bartley is to enter a “radiation shelter” at a local shopping center, and live for a week under “emergency survival conditions”, so that “WFUN and civil defense can prove it’s fun to stay alive.”
Note the use of the filter effect for “quotes” – a gimmick we haven’t heard previously. WFUN Fundamental News, circa 1961, still ranks as our favorite classic Top 40 news presentation.