If you’ve watched TV – especially late-night TV – you’ve probably heard the jingle: “1-877-Kars-4-Kids, K-A-R-S Kars for Kids! 1-877-Kars-4-Kids, Donate your car today!” It’s the kind of commercial ...

A California court recently banned the earworm, the butt of many jokes on 'Saturday Night Live.' ...

Bruce Puterbaugh’s 2001 Volvo was worth $250. The legal precedent he set by nuking the world's most annoying radio ads? Priceless.

A California judge has given Kars4Kids 30 days to either take its ads off the air or update them to disclose its affiliations to a Jewish charity based in the Northeast.

It all started with a 2001 Volvo XC wagon with nearly 200,000 miles on the odometer, which had sat undisturbed in Bruce Puterbaugh’s backyard for months, inoperable and left for dead. But after a ...

The billboards are unmistakable: “Kars-4-Kids” with two pink Ks in a child’s (or serial killer’s) scrawl. The jingle, haunting: 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS, K-A-R-S kars for kids. The earworm ubiquity of the ...

Kars 4 Kids / K-A-R-S Kars for Kids” will no longer be stuck in the heads of every Californian. After more than 30 years, a California judge has ordered the grating commercial off the air due ...

Kars 4 Kids, Donate your car today.” It’s a jingle that has been heard across Bay Area televisions for decades. However, the ...

The jingle is all theirs. But for years, Kars 4 Kids — the New Jersey-based charity that solicits across the country for car donations in support of its childrens’ programs — has been engaged in a ...