Hop On Pop on WGN TV - 1/19

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:52 am

Yep, it's true.
I just spoke to my contact over at WGN and had it conmfirmed:
Hop On Pop will be playing on the WGN Morning News
Wednesday, Jan. 19th
In the 8:00 hour.
We'll do two 30-second "teasers" between 8:15 and 8:40 or so.
Then at 8:50 we'll have a SHORT interview, followed by a live, on-air performance of "Ashes On the Water"

Pretty psyched!
I'm gonna send out the email to my mailing list right now.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:19 pm

That's good exposure. Don't get WGN on my cable package right now, but used to when I lived a couple towns over. The Cubs saved my wife from post-partum depression. She cried when Harry C. died.

That's way more than just Chicago that you can potentially reach, though the likelihood of someone in Massachusetts or Florida having a reason to watch Chicago news is fairly low.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:22 pm

wait until it's closer to the date to send out the email.

That is awesome Todd!

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:28 pm

frostingspoon Wrote:

That's good exposure. Don't get WGN on my cable package right now, but used to when I lived a couple towns over. The Cubs saved my wife from post-partum depression. She cried when Harry C. died.

That's way more than just Chicago that you can potentially reach, though the likelihood of someone in Massachusetts or Florida having a reason to watch Chicago news is fairly low.

I don't think the show we're on is carried on the Superstation, unfortunately. But it's still damn good exposure.

Sketch · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:51 pm

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

That is awesome Todd!

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

PopTodd Wrote:

I don't think the show we're on is carried on the Superstation, unfortunately. But it's still damn good exposure.

Todd, don't be so sure about that....I have my people checking into it now

ayah · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:03 pm **Posts:** 6402

frostingspoon Wrote:

... the likelihood of someone in Massachusetts having a reason to watch Chicago news is fairly low.

sniff no superstaion for me. sniff

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:29 pm

Make sure you get someone to tape it - then include it as a DVD extra on your next CD.

Good luck, or break a multitude of legs, or whatever well-wishing is appropriate.

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:43 pm

I think you should tape it, and put it up on your site.

If you want help doing this, maybe I can look into getting a digital recording of it for you that you can then host. (or circulate via CC.)

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:51 pm

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

I think you should tape it, and put it up on your site.

If you want help doing this, maybe I can look into getting a digital recording of it for you that you can then host. (or circulate via CC.)

That would rock, if you could do that, TJ!

d · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:08 pm

Cool and congratulations. We get WGN on basic cable out here. Does this mean I need to get up at 6 to watch you?

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:10 pm

dnorwood Wrote:

Cool and congratulations. We get WGN on basic cable out here. Does this mean I need to get up at 6 to watch you?

Don't know if this is going to be broadcast on the Superstation.
?

Charli · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:17 pm

First off very nice, and congrats guys.

Second, Riviera did the same thing on there last March before their show at the Metro.

We do know that it is NOT viewable on WGN outside of the Illinois-Indiana-Michigan are. People on the east coast that tried to watch it ended up with reruns of some tv show.

You may GET WGN but it won't be the same feed guys. Sorry.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:18 pm

that's fabulous news todd.

btw -
ADBEA2 has made its way into the daily household rotation !

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:20 pm

mcaputo Wrote:

ADBEA2 has made its way into the daily household rotation !

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

I think Ohio has also the same feed. At least I'm hoping they do.

Charli · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:33 pm

Spade Kitty Wrote:

I think Ohio has also the same feed. At least I'm hoping they do.

Probably. It's just anything further east then that or further west then possibly Iowa and all bets are off.

They'll just end up with re-runs of Full House or something.

wenchlette · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:13 pm

Charli Wrote:

Spade Kitty Wrote:

I think Ohio has also the same feed. At least I'm hoping they do.

Probably. It's just anything further east then that or further west then possibly Iowa and all bets are off.

They'll just end up with re-runs of Full House or something.

Yeah, what a bummer that was.

Congratulations, though! Awesome.

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:56 pm

I'll set my VCR that AM just to be sure. Make sure you bump this thread the day before to remind us.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:01 pm

Charli Wrote:

First off very nice, and congrats guys.

Second, Riviera did the same thing on there last March before their show at the Metro.

We do know that it is NOT viewable on WGN outside of the Illinois-Indiana-Michigan are. People on the east coast that tried to watch it ended up with reruns of some tv show.

You may GET WGN but it won't be the same feed guys. Sorry.

What about Wisco? I mean, Kenosha is practically ChicagoLand, right now, and Milwaukee, for having a half-million in the city limits and being 80 miles up from the Big Shoulders, is still usually overshadowed* by its unruly neighbor metropolis.

*Of course, sometimes that happens in reverse. I remember, in the early or mid-nineties, maybe '94 or '95, Citizen King (Milw. band, now defunct) was voted best local band in some Chicago-specific weekly paper polling.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:02 pm

BUMP

For a reminder...

Charli · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:05 pm

Uhh yeah, see apparently I can't read, cause I thought it was today and I was sitting in front of the tv wondering why you guys weren't on yet.

I am a complete dork.

fickerson · **Posted:** Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:15 pm

for the record, iowa gets "the beverly hillbillies" at 8 AM on wgn. at least they still show some cubs games. . .

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2005 5:59 pm

this is tomorrow people.

legonads · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:39 pm

Will someone be providing a digital version for those of us who can't catch it on the tube?

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