There's a guy on Connecticut Public Radio station WNPR who runs a talk show and takes calls from listeners. Obviously, he's been plagued by the same dilemma so many yakkers do when they go to the phones - people who turn up their radios so they can hear their on-air debuts.

The problem, of course, is the infamous 7-sec. (or longer) delay, put in to prevent someone from swearing or libeling another person, allowing a producer to dump the feed immediately before it reaches air. So if you keep your radio on when it's your turn, there's a very distinctive and annoying echo that makes it impossible to continue.

Try as producers might, some callers never learn this lesson and they usually either get cut off or told by the angry host to "Turn your radio down!" It's a waste of airtime, reduces time for callers to make their point, sounds terrible and seems like it's been going on since Marconi made his first voice transmission. 

Which is what I assume inspired this crazy headline, which is otherwise never referred to again on the site. 

Will it help? Probably not. But at least someone in talk radio is trying to fight back against this decades-long scourge!