At least let him do this during DX season when an ID from something else can slip through!

Jody Thornton wrote:

When Dick Buchanan ran 1380 CKPC in Brantford, he wanted newscasters to leave gaps between stories like that.  Mind you, he also wanted no talking over the fades of songs or over sustained endings.  You had better hear a cricket chirp before speaking, or else.

Just terrible.
 

Did he also insist on having announcers refer to the city as "Brant-FORD" as opposed to "Brant-ferd"? I remember hearing stories like that from someone who once worked there (and thankfully, went on to much bigger and better things).



PJ

When CHAY was (very) easy listening, there where dead air gaps between everything.
That station would put me nearly to sleep on my drives back to Kirkland Lake (82-83), but it's signal was all one could get and there was no entertainment unit in my short bed basic Chrysler van. 

Perhaps they could fill in the dead air with those pathetic 'swoosh' sound effects they used for a while (unless they declined to renew the license to Mickey Mouse Imaging Consultantry Inc.).

I couldn't sleep on Sunday morning after a personal tragedy, so I turned in 680 News, the only live radio on at the time. They had a newscaster named Dylan McGuire doing the all night run. And guess what? He was leaving even longer pauses between stories than the other guy cited in this thread. 

Some were as long as five-six seconds or more. It doesn't seem possible that two newscasters on the same station would do this overnights. Is it possible they're being told to do it by someone higher up? And if so, why? It's very awkward to listen to, as you can actually count off the time between stories. 

One other thing - I've heard one of the anchors who does this, Ben Howes, doing the :15 and :45 sports update. The read is smooth with no pauses at all between items. Again, it would appear that perhaps they're being asked to do this, although I can't for the life of me imagine the reason. But boy does it make their newscasts sound stilted and awkward. 

Up early for the dog park, Nest hub playing 680 this morning, thought they were going off the air a couple of times.  Very annoying.

680 needs to take lessons from some online only stations.
I'm trained to keep dead air to an absolute minimum because online listeners (or those who choose to listen online instead of to the regular radio) can easily believe something is wrong with the stream.
IF they leave, they might be gone and not returning.

If a 5 (or so) second gap has been deemed compulsory by 680 News, the least they can do is run a bed in the background while the newsreader reads, along with any dead air, just to show that there is no actual dead air and nothing wrong with the stream. (ie  stream did not stop running) 

I do notice that Rogers tend to hire the interns as on-air anchors for overnights news.

I guess the hourly rate is significantly less than the anchors were usually hear.