The seder snafu is just another example of the lax state of broadcast training nowadays.
Once upon a time if you wanted to be a professional newsreader, you had bosses who would correct you... or at least hold announcer meetings to discuss things like names and words that are going to crop up, so you'd know in advance to pronounce them properly.
The CBC had the most rigorous training.
I've made the comparison before... what if you went to a doctor who said, "blood pressure?  I really am not sure how to do that." And as for this stethoscope..."
And speaking of Jewish mispronunciations, another common one is bah-NYE Brith instead of Bah-NAY Brith.


 

Turkeytop,
I grew up in Vancouver where we have the suburb, New Westminster.
Yes, it was often called New  Westminister.
And that was by radio announcers who lived there.
AAAArggh.

 

Frum may be writing now for a so-called "leftist" publication, but as mentioned above he was Bush's speech writer
Although he did not write the famous "axis of evil" line and he has admitted that.
Also as g121 notes sometimes there really is no other side to an argument.
Although Donald Trump did say there were "very fine people" among the neo Nazi protesters in Charlottesville.


 

No, not at all a one-off.
Millennial and gen Z announcers are notorious for lax pronunciation and enunciation.
It just really isn't taught anymore.
Hearing a news announcer with bad pronunciation is like if you went to see your doctor and he or she told you they really never learned how to take blood pressure.
Or if you called the CAA and they arrived and said they were not sure how to change a tire.
In broadcasting that means you have supposedly professional announcers saying Blur Street, or for that matter Eggelton Avenue, which I have also heard.
When I first came to Toronto in the 80s I was confused when I heard traffic reports where the announcer would talk about the "corn collectors."
It took me a while to realize they were talking about the "core and collectors," referring to highway lanes.
Nowadays I roll my eyes as I drive alone when the radio announcer tells me there's a stawed veekle on the DVP.
(stalled vehicle.)



 

A while back I jokingly wrote about how radio was playing the Spence ad where Sarah has a phone call from Japan with Fiona.  At the same time a GOT Junk ad was playing, featuring Sarah again -- but this time answering the phone in Toronto to talk to a woman about cleaning up her garage.
How could Sarah be both in Toronto and Japan at the same time?
As I said I was just being silly -- but low and behold, recently the intro to the GOT JUNK ad was chopped to take out Sarah answering the phone. Now when you hear it it stars with the woman talking about how much junk she has, and Sarah's voice is there, but she is no longer identified.
Now that ad is playing right next to the Spence ad where Fiona and Sarah are still talking on the phone with Sarah still in Japan.
Like I said, I was joking before but it seems someone did notice that Sarah was identifying herself on the GOT JUNK ad and now her name is chopped out.
Oh, and BTW, yes I can't stand that stupid, "a little more" ad.  In fact I could not tell what the ad was for until I really listened on purpose.
And yes that bloody "I'll be by your side" Desjardins song is really annoying, especially since it is obviously a Randy Newman imitation a la "You've got a friend in me" from Toy Story.
But what really gets me that they've brought back that blasted "Kars For Kids" song  AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

 

OK, just let me toss my hat in the ring here.
For some reason news writers like to use sports and boxing analogies.
In Canada they use hockey references as though each time they are original and nobody's ever thought of them before.
For that the need to spend time in the penalty box.
They are after all skating on thin ice.
I could go on but I don't want to go into overtime.
 

Movies and TV shows pretty well never get actual radio right... or TV for that matter.
Even the legendary WKRP did not portray radio accurately.
Think of the scenes where a DJ like Johnny Fever would intro a song and then turn the pot down and have a ten-minute conversation with one of the other characters.

 

I am enjoying watching "Tracker" in a sort of guilty pleasure way.
It is good mindless entertainment, and it tells its stories in small 50 minute bites.
I watch on Bell On Demand.
But I do realize the scripts are absurd
The hero, Colter Shaw, seems to be a master of all things.  He's never wrong.
He seems to be able to fight and easily defeat bad guys with guns.
He also walks onto crime scenes where actual police officers, gruffly ask "who are you" and he gives some vague answer about being a missing persons expert and the cops say, "oh, well, that's OK then."
Or his client tells police, "it's OK officer he works for me."
I wish I could have had that kind of experience when I covered crime stories as a reporter.
"It's OK officer I'm a crime beat reporter, just tell me everything."
"You got it, sir."

 

 

I literally laughed my ass of when I read that.
Then I literally lost my mind when I read it.
It was literally the funniest thing I ever heard in my entire life.
I literally died.
Police will release my name pending notification of next of kin.
That was after a police officer discharged his firearm and I became deceased.
But it wasn't a targeted shooting.
But when I woke up this morning I had no way of knowing this was going to happen.
It was every parents' worst nightmare.


 

The first record I ever "bought" was actually not bought by me, but by my mother.
However it was the first time I went to a record store and asked for a record.
It was "All My Loving" by The Beatles.
It was on a 45.
Growing up in Vancouver we had several great record stores, including A and B records, Sight and Sound and even the record section of the downtown Hudson's Bay was very large and comprehensive.
 

One of the great interviewers is Britain's Jeremy Paxman, who alas, has had to quit due to Parkinson's.
He was tenacious in his questioning of politicians.
He once asked Tony Blair 19 times about British government involvement in Iraq.
Blair never gave a proper answer and Paxman eventually just ended the interview rather than go for a 20th attempt.

It's not strictly radio, although it did get a low of radio news coverage at the time.
Netflix has released the doc, "What Jennifer Did," about the bizarre murder of the parents of a Canadian-Vietnamese girl north of Toronto.  It tells the story of a young Canadian woman and her alleged plot to kill her parents. The documentary opens on the alarming 2010 emergency call Pan placed to the police after her mother was fatally shot to death and her father critically injured in their home.
After a lengthy investigation police discovered Jennifer hired hit men to kill her parents who would not let her see her boyfriend who they thought was not good enough for her.
Very well done doc with real footage of the police interrogations.
 

Just to follow up on RA's cartoon comment, I don't remember US stations showing cartoons on their Thanksgiving, but I do remember when the new season of cartoons premiered, usually in the fall.
I used to wake up at about 6 am to watch the new cartoons on Saturday as they debuted.
Some of them were the cartoon version of Star Trek, the Beatles, Space Ghost, and of course Spider Man which was voiced by Canadian actor Paul Soles.
Later, when I was a bit older I watched Rocket Robin Hood, which was also a Canadian creation, and rather odd. It was actually quite adult in it concepts as it still was aimed at kids.

 

I think SWAT has been so popular because it stars Shemar Moore, who was a very popular character on Criminal Minds. He really carries the show on SWAT. 
Also the theme from SWAT was a big radio hit back in the day of the original series.
It's a nostalgia thing.
I.ve seen a few episodes and it's a pretty good cop action drama show, so there you go.
 

Yes, Boom is great sounding, and smoothly done.  I listen to them in the car, and I also like the feature that tells me what song is playing.
Of course, the only thing that's missing is a good old-fashioned DJ, with real personality, great jokes or clever comments, etc.  I wonder if those days will ever come back.  As Stevie Wonder says "why did those days ever have to go?"