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		<title>What A Character! &#8211; Fatty Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. From the annals of spokesfigures whose time had come and gone before they&#8217;d even arrived, there&#8217;s Fatty Turkey, the eponymous mascot of Fatty Turkey Brand Whole Frozen Turkeys. A subsidiary spawned from McLaren Preservatives, the Fatty Turkey Brand was the brainchild of founder and then-president Leland McLaren, who&#8217;d decided to expand his modest nitrate and polysodium empire into the market which his goods typically serviced. Debuting in freezer sections in 1977 &#8211; during the height of the health-conscious mania gripping thirties-bound baby boomers &#8211; McLaren&#8217;s advertisedly bad-for-you birds may have seemed a counter-intuitive comestible. Leland&#8217;s reasoning was, as he stated in a company newsletter and PR release later that year, &#8220;to reclaim the word &#8216;fat&#8217; from the doomsayers and finger-wagglers.&#8221; The 131-pound, six-foot-two McLaren &#8211; then fifty-five years old &#8211; continued, &#8220;When I was a boy, &#8216;fat&#8217; meant healthy! &#8216;Fat&#8217; meant robust! We all drooled at the thought of a fat, juicy chicken for dinner or a nice, fat goose for Christmas.&#8221; Essential to McLaren&#8217;s campaign to reclaim the luxurious implication of the long-since demonized word, pot-bellied Fatty Turkey himself was stamped onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirate Radio Station Busted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the FCC, working with local law enforcement, shut down local &#8220;pirate&#8221; radio station CTY-Radio, broadcasting on 89.7 FM. Operator Rian Hayes, 29, was taken into custody and will be arraigned this Friday on federal charges including unlicensed operation, inadvertent interference and possession of illegal transmission equipment. &#8220;The capture of Mr Hayes is the result of a nine-month investigation,&#8221; stated FCC spokesperson Angela Moriarty. &#8220;We hope this sends a message to the pirate radio community in this area: you will no longer use the public airwaves without sanction.&#8221; Pirate radio has a storied history in the city, beginning with Leonard &#8220;Lenny&#8221; Hart&#8217;s unauthorized rebroadcast of Jack Benny&#8217;s radio program in 1974. The phenomenon is widely regarded as having peaked with FM92 in the early 80s, where 93.9 personality Jamdog got his start. CTY-Radio was popular for its focus on ethnocentric programming, including regular segments devoted to afrobeat, free jazz, and even Jewish songs. While Hayes acted as the primary operator of the station under the nom de broadcast Hallelujah Jones, other featured on-air talents used monikers like Sacred Skull, Minus Nine, and The Countess. &#8220;I&#8217;m confident that we can work with the FCC and the city to reduce [...]]]></description>
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