[Taft in '52]

My favorite April Fools Day radio broadcast occurred back in the 1980’s. I tuned in to KRLA, the old rock blaster, not the present-day conservative chatterbox, and almost went into shock. They were playing songs, running ads, and even doing news broadcasts and weather reports from April 1, 1963. I remember what I was doing on April 1, 1963 and what the weather was like (it rained), and the broadcast was spot-on. I momentarily thought I had traveled through a time warp.

[justlurking]

Back in the 70's, a rock station and a country station in my hometown switched formats for the morning, from 6:00 AM to noon. There was no explanation, no announcement. They just started broadcasting the other station's playlist.

Some listeners went ballistic.

[elcid1970]

Or when Soupy Sales told the kids in his audience to go get out those green pieces of paper in Mommy’s purse & Daddy’s wallet (both passed out on New Year’s morning), remit same to: The Soupy Sales Show, WNBC, New York, “and in return I will send you a postcard from Puerto Rico”.

OK that wasn’t April Fool but still kind of funny.