Re: Not Quite Sure What To Call These
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:15 pm
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They still do them every morning on KHYI 95.3Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:42 pm![]()
Reminds me of the old Hiney Wine hoax from the 1980s. For those who don’t remember, or weren’t around yet back then, the fictional winery….
Ken
The local radio station had a lot of fun with the Hiney Wine. The winery was located in Peterson, IA, population 300. An empty storefront actually put up a Hiney Winery sign. The radio stations sponsored a yearly Hiney Wine Festival where several actual wineries promoted their wines. The Festival has continued and is now Vinestock and is attended by several thousand people each fall.Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:42 pm![]()
Reminds me of the old Hiney Wine hoax from the 1980s. For those who don’t remember, or weren’t around yet back then, the fictional winery was founded and owned by Harry Hiney, and operated by his family. Which consisted of children, nieces and nephews Big Red Hiney, Thor Hiney, Tiny Hiney, Ophelia Hiney, Xavier Hiney, Ima Hiney, Seymore Hiney, Rosey Hiney, Anita Hiney, Lucie Hiney, and Thor’s wife, Oma Aiken-Hiney. And others I can’t recall.
The fake commercials for the winery were originated by a Dallas radio station DJ, who then syndicated the scripts to radio stations across the country, to be localized (as to the winery’s location) and read by the local station’s on-air DJ.
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Ken
I think most stations had a lot of fun with it, especially the locations. The station in Dallas had the winery originally located “behind the branch library” in Euless (a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth), but then the winery expanded and moved, to a new location in Forney (another suburb) across the street from the Forney Caterers.Boji wrote: ↑Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:48 pmThe local radio station had a lot of fun with the Hiney Wine. The winery was located in Peterson, IA, population 300. An empty storefront actually put up a Hiney Winery sign. The radio stations sponsored a yearly Hiney Wine Festival where several actual wineries promoted their wines. The Festival has continued and is now Vinestock and is attended by several thousand people each fall.Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:42 pm![]()
Reminds me of the old Hiney Wine hoax from the 1980s. For those who don’t remember, or weren’t around yet back then, the fictional winery was founded and owned by Harry Hiney, and operated by his family. Which consisted of children, nieces and nephews Big Red Hiney, Thor Hiney, Tiny Hiney, Ophelia Hiney, Xavier Hiney, Ima Hiney, Seymore Hiney, Rosey Hiney, Anita Hiney, Lucie Hiney, and Thor’s wife, Oma Aiken-Hiney. And others I can’t recall.
The fake commercials for the winery were originated by a Dallas radio station DJ, who then syndicated the scripts to radio stations across the country, to be localized (as to the winery’s location) and read by the local station’s on-air DJ.
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Ken
Terry Dorsey was the DJ, on station KSCS. I was fresh out of high school in 1980, and was a delivering auto parts all over Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas every day, so got to listen quit a bit. Kept me entertained.Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:42 pm![]()
Reminds me of the old Hiney Wine hoax from the 1980s. For those who don’t remember, or weren’t around yet back then, the fictional winery was founded and owned by Harry Hiney, and operated by his family. Which consisted of children, nieces and nephews Big Red Hiney, Thor Hiney, Tiny Hiney, Ophelia Hiney, Xavier Hiney, Ima Hiney, Seymore Hiney, Rosey Hiney, Anita Hiney, Lucie Hiney, and Thor’s wife, Oma Aiken-Hiney. And others I can’t recall.
The fake commercials for the winery were originated by a Dallas radio station DJ, who then syndicated the scripts to radio stations across the country, to be localized (as to the winery’s location) and read by the local station’s on-air DJ.
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Ken