"It's just something that is really needed in Orlando television," Patti says. Patti says Ranger Bob and his Buckaroo Club fill a void in local programming. It was the best Friday attendance in the park's history, Patti said. Last month, a promotion held in conjunction with an Orlando Sunrays game attracted 1,500 kids and their parents.īill Patti, director of publicity and promotions at Fun World in Sanford, said about 700 children crowded into his park in June to see Ranger Bob.
In June, almost 350 kids attended an event at Church Street Station. In only a few months, he has shown that he can. The sponsors are game as long as Ranger Bob can deliver kids.
If it isn't good for a freebie, if we can't tie it into places, then it's no good." "It's got to be something that is theirs. "This club card has got to be the most important thing for these kids," Kincaid says.
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Members of the Buckaroo Club can flash their cards at 18 Central Florida businesses and get perks: a free round of Putt-Putt golf at the Mystery Fun House, a free order of Howie Bread with a pizza purchase at Hungry Howie's Pizza and Subs restaurant and free admission to area attractions like Water Mania and Fun World as long as a paying adult tags along.Ĭommunity involvement with the Buckaroo Club is key to its success, Kincaid says. Club sponsors are local businesses who offer perks to the kids and make sure membership has its privileges - something that had all but disappeared with the old club. The 13,000 members of the old club were converted to the Buckaroo Club, and as the number of members grew, club sponsors began signing up, too. The results, station managers say, have far exceeded expectations. When Channel 18 wanted to revive its kids club - then called The Hot Shot Club - Ward immediately thought of Kincaid.Īs it happened, Kincaid was in the market for relocation.
Dave Ward, programming and promotions manager at Channel 18, had worked with Kincaid in Rochester. In March, Channel 18 wooed Kincaid to Orlando from Rochester, N.Y., where he had created the Ranger Bob character at WUHF-Channel 31 in 1980. "Ranger Bob is just an old guy who's off his rockers, and he makes you laugh," says Kincaid, who will be 41 next month. Laughter is the bottom line, says Tim Kincaid, who plays Ranger Bob the way Jerry Lewis might interpret Roy Rogers. "I don't think I have ever seen them laugh so much as I do when you are on." "I have two little boys ages 6 and 8, and they watch your program every day," writes Sharon Phelps of Orlando. "When it's over I wish that it was on a little while longer," writes 10-year-old Amy Canfield.
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