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On the 2 pm newscast today (Monday) on CFRB, Patricia Muhammad read a story quoting some news agency called ROOT-ers. Civilization continues to decline.
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All of us newscasters have had bad days. But on her 4pm newscast, it sounded very much like Patricia said the Blue Jays are playing the Baltimore OILERS.
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dieter wrote:
All newscasters have bad days. But on her 4pm newscast, it sounded very much like Patricia said the Blue Jays are playing the Baltimore OILERS.
Yes, I thought I heard that, too, but it went by so fast I wasn't sure.
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My friend says he heard hockey coach Rick Tocchet called Toh-chay the other day. I also swear I heard
Temagami called Temmi-gammi!
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I once worked with a woman who read some sports and referred to NFL Johnny Unitas as OO-nee-tass.
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I definitely heard that the Jays were losing to the Oilers!
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I would well prefer a stuttering cretin reading accurate fact to a well-spoken reprobate slinging obvious shugshit at me.
Maybe this opinion is not appropriate to this forum. Sorry.
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dieter wrote:
On the 2 pm newscast today (Monday) on CFRB, Patricia Muhammad read a story quoting some news agency called ROOT-ers. Civilization continues to decline.
She is not very good with pronunciations, but I think this is fairly common with younger on-air talent these days. However, their directors/ producers should be in top of this, and they’re not obviously. Also, for a news reader to not know how to pronounce Reuters is really pathetic, really!
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It was 1959 and I'm into my very first week of my first radio gig on CFOS. The noon hour program had the farm editor read the farm news while I sat across from him in the big studio reading the spots. He reads the intro and then points to me to read the first commercial. It began "Do your chicks have trouble laying?" It was the first line of a feed company's commercial. Keep in mind it's the farm news. I look at him he looks at me and I lost it. Could not continue I was laughing so hard. He did the spot and we finished the program. At the end of the hour, the program director came into the studio and reminded me that sponsors pay to have their commercials read. He knew I was new, didn't scold but offered help. That it was is lacking in radio today, too many are hired on the cheap.
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and then there's this.
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Caught a winner from CP24's Sijia Liu yesterday. There was a news item that happened in "Peter buh-roe".
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Heather Seaman just finished off her Newstalk 1010 report with an ad for the dom-a-NEE-kin Republic. Good grief.