Kars4Kids

Worst radio ad, ever! I hear this a lot on 710 KIRO (sports station in Seattle) and sometimes on KOMO 1000 and it drives me absolutely nuts. And I've heard snippets of the heavy metal version before pressing the "Tune" button on my radio - what the hell was that all about?! 

I wouldn't mind if K4K stops the disgusting horrible radio ads, but I'm kind of surprised of how K4K helped you out! 

This @#%@in ad just aired a couple of days ago on KCBS-FM's webstream!! (93.1 Jack FM) As soon as I heard those first notes and "1-877" I muted it!! I wish they would stop doing this ad and start doing just a voiceover, like "Heritage for the Blind" and their 3 day vacation vouchers.

A new twist on this one.  For April Fool's Day, they reversed the lyrics (if you can call 'em that).  Played on NYC am stations often today:

http://www.kids4kars.org/


There's a video clip there with the altered text.

I hate you. If you like this ad you deserve to die. Please jump off a cliff and DIE ALDFHKS;DLFKHJAW;LFRKJ IAHATEWKJW;RF AHATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THIS SHIITIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT

msmadz wrote: Mooch, I listen to Q104 (WAXQ) and they play it on that station, too.   I would love to hear one of the DJs on an open mic say something like "I can't stand this friggin' ad!"

Howie Carr, New England's #1 talk host, as well as listeners, routinely mock or berate the Kars4Kids ads on the air.  His flagship station (and original show owner) WRKO in Boston routinely airs the ads in their market and online streaming. 

Recently in January Howie left his longtime Boston affiliate for another station, and there was fantastic on-air celebration by him and listeners over the fact that they would no longer be subject to "those terrible Kars4Kids ads" anymore!  When he left WRKO, he took the full ownership of his show with him, and his new Boston affiliate was only that.

 Fast forward a couple months, and his new Boston affiliate deal crumbled, and he decided on returning to WRKO as an affiliate station (among about 20 others across New England) who air his (now) independently produced show.  All that being said, because now listeners in Boston are once again tortured with the horrible Kars4Kids commercials, and they are still occasionally referenced and mocked on-air.  That old buzzard Imus is not alone in making at least a little quip about them!

I was going to start a thread on this commercial but I guess you all beat me to it. This is by far the worst radio ad. I hate this more than the rest! I always change the station when this one comes on. Been on NYC AM radio stations for YEARS. It actually makes me hate kids! Worse than the Ad Council ads and you would think that's just not possible.

Here in NYC - This eldritch abomination of an advertisement has been played about once every hour on sports and rock music stations - The sports stations have been playing this abortion for about 5 or six years

nooyawka wrote: a Jewish guy from Brooklyn started this sham/scam. It was exposed years ago here in NYC. It should be renamed 'Kars for Yids'. He's filthy rich now and he's nation wide in hundreds of markets. This Tax Free org is now soliciting for boats and real estate in addition to cars. what a disgrace.

This commercial is another mere, veiled Communist plot. Seemingly.

So I'm going to my soon to be stepmother's house again for Christmas. But of course, they like listening to the radio, so that means hearing this song ALL DAMN CHRISTMAS. I have to do everything in my power to not start screaming and begging my family to change the station. 

Why must this ad continue to torture me? Any and all versions of this commercial suck! STOP PLAYING IT, I TELL YOU! STOP! I'M GOING MAD, MAD I TELL YOU! It'll be California-born axe-wielding maniac time if I hear this ad again this Christmas! Stay tuned.

Thanks, aka, for posting the worst of the worst of these ads!  Someone thought it was cute to have a bunch of big-eyed kids  who can't sing (can't lip-synch, either) and can't play music dress up in pink and black ('cause that's rock n' roll, right?) and "be charming on command".  Forget the mute button - This is a commercial that causes channel-changing the second it appears.