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Closed Circuit To Anyone At GNR640 – Please Fix This!
I’ve been trying to reach anyone at GNR640 for a while, but apparently emails are ignored and phone calls go straight to never-answered voice mail. So hopefully, someone there will pass this along to the right person.
Every Friday night, Alex Pierson has Mercedes Stephenson on to promote her political public affairs show called The West Block. It’s a 10-minute promo and mentions that while it airs on Global Sundays at 11 AM, it also runs on the radio at 7 in the morning on Sundays.
Except for the last four weeks, it hasn’t. I actually like listening to this show, because Stephenson is good and she sometimes goes after politicians with the one thing they hate the most – real facts about controversial issues. So I sometimes I get up early to listen to it. But for more than a month, a podcast called “This Is Why” has aired in its radio timeslot.
I’m guessing the station is on autopilot Sunday morning and someone has entered the wrong file number into the automated software, which gets copied week after week and results in the wrong show being played over and over and over again. It's pretty much filler early on a weekend and no one seems to have noticed! This seems like an easy fix and if you’re going to waste valuable airtime promoting the show, the very least you can do is run it when it’s scheduled.
The second issue has been going on much longer. There’s a hard network break on “Charles Adler Tonight” every hour at exactly 26 minutes after the hour. I’m not sure why, but the host is always cut off mid-sentence as they head to this pause. “After the break, I’ll be speaking to-” or “Coming up next, we’ll get the answer to this question: Why does –” and click to commercial.
I’m guessing this may be because the Toronto station is still in delay and the computer is programmed to take the break at that exact second. So the rest is simply cut off. It has been going on not for days, weeks or months, but for years. Whatever the cause, it sounds terribly unprofessional and it needs to be fixed once and for all.
Now back to your regularly ignored emails and phone calls!
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Re: Closed Circuit To Anyone At GNR640 – Please Fix This!
640 is a good college.
1010 is a great university.
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This problem is not specific to 640 but rather the Roy Greene Show. I have noticed for almost a year now that Roy often has an annoying echo whenever he has guests or callers on the phone.
The first time I thought ok, maybe they are training a new person and somebody will correct the mistake. But no, this has been going on for months. Why has this technical glitch not been corrected? It sounds like garbage, especially when he has two or three pundits on with him, all on separate phone lines.
Often the cell phone quality is very muffled and hard to listen to. When arranging guests, Roy or his producer should see if the guest could possibly be on a land line rather than cell. But do something about the echo, which I have never heard on any other talk show. That is not the way to make a program stand out!
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paterson1 wrote:
This problem is not specific to 640 but rather the Roy Greene Show. I have noticed for almost a year now that Roy often has an annoying echo whenever he has guests or callers on the phone.
The first time I thought ok, maybe they are training a new person and somebody will correct the mistake. But no, this has been going on for months. Why has this technical glitch not been corrected? It sounds like garbage, especially when he has two or three pundits on with him, all on separate phone lines.
Often the cell phone quality is very muffled and hard to listen to. When arranging guests, Roy or his producer should see if the guest could possibly be on a land line rather than cell. But do something about the echo, which I have never heard on any other talk show. That is not the way to make a program stand out!
After hearing this a few times...I think the echo is due to Roy having his headset turned too high near the mic, a poor headset that doesn't block sound coming out the sides, or doesn't leave the headset on, but cranks it up.
Roy I think does the show remotely, which has slight digital delay. Because the studio (CHML) sends back callers to him to hear and not his own voice, I think the bleed is his headset to his microphone.
He either has to change his headset to a better one that stops sound bleeding out, OR turn the headset down. I don't hear this on other hosts who work remotely so it's an isolated case to Roy.
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Thanks for the explanation radiokid. Sounds like Roy's echo problem could be easily solved. Wonder why he or his producer/technician doesn't fix it. I am sure he would be well aware of the situation. Turn down the headphones Roy or put them on!! Unbelievable that this has been going on for months.....