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Does This 680 Sportscaster Ever Take A Breath?
To be honest, I thought the sportscaster on 680 News Sunday morning might just have been a bot. But no, Marshall Crocker is a real person and he's listed as a sports reporter for 680 News, along with also working for Rogers in Kitchener, Halifax and Ottawa.
The reason I thought he might not be real at first listen? His sports reports at :15 and :45 on the weekend are not only read so fast, you can barely keep up with it. But he also never seems to take a single breath in the roughly three minute recap. It almost sounds like they've been edited out, making for an oddly disconcerting listen.
There is no separation between stories and it just doesn't sound natural as the end of one story follows immediately by another with not even a single pause. If you get a chance, check out one of the sportscasts he's on and see if you hear the same thing. It really is very odd.
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We have a newsreader in our market (north of Toronto) who sounds the very same. When listening I seem to believe he actually records each story seperately and then edits them together. Either that or later in the morning he pulls stories from earlier casts and edits together. Does not sound natural at all.
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Just a Radio Fan wrote:
We have a newsreader in our market (north of Toronto) who sounds the very same. When listening I seem to believe he actually records each story seperately and then edits them together. Either that or later in the morning he pulls stories from earlier casts and edits together. Does not sound natural at all.
I had the exact same thought. You can tell the lack of space between every story sounds like an edit. But why would they do that?
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We have a newsreader in our market (north of Toronto) who sounds the very same. When listening I seem to believe he actually records each story seperately and then edits them together. Either that or later in the morning he pulls stories from earlier casts and edits together. Does not sound natural at all.
During my full-time radio years, on occasions that I filled in on weekend news anchoring, I did just about everything "live to tape" (well, to WAV or MP3 files in our Adobe Audition software) including playing sound bites and reporter packages "live" in the newsroom software, and only edited out slip-ups; I left breaths in there, to make everything sound live and natural.
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We have a newsreader in our market (north of Toronto) who sounds the very same. When listening I seem to believe he actually records each story seperately and then edits them together. Either that or later in the morning he pulls stories from earlier casts and edits together. Does not sound natural at all.
During my full-time radio years, on occasions that I filled in on weekend news anchoring, I did just about everything "live to tape" (well, to WAV or MP3 files in our Adobe Audition software) including playing sound bites and reporter packages "live" in the newsroom software, and only edited out slip-ups; I left breaths in there, to make everything sound live and natural.
Unfortunately, many people lack attention to detail and might not even realize that what they are putting on the air sounds unnatural. Marshall is fairly young and sounds decent on the air with the exception of the obvious edits. I hope the news director is able to point that out to him.
It's great you used Adobe Audition. But most news people probably don't have the time or knowledge to know how to do that and transfer the files over etc... And sorry newsies, but the native built-in audio editor in your news software isn't that great.