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A couple notes to Atlanta's "Best" news team...

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hail2theorange

1) To the young lady handling the news breaks last night... the House Minority leader John Boehner -- pronounced "baner", not "boner".

2) To Richard Sangster... a situation cannot be "exasperated" -- I believe you were looking for the word "exacerbated" -- I've heard this one more than once in your reports.

If the South is ever going to lose its reputation of being uneducated, it would help a lot if our news stations pronounced politicians' names correctly and used the right words for the situations.
 
News stationS???
 
I find this thread exasperating. You just exacerbated Atlanta's "Best" news team by calling them on it. I have to agree with you, their newscasts are full of "boners".
 
It's a glaring omission that Atlanta, the seventh largest radio market, still does not have a 24-Hour all-news station, similar to WBBM (Chicago), WCBS (New York), or KYW Philadelphia. I remember when WGST was all-news when they were on 920AM and they were actually a decent news station, and that was long before the move to 640.
 
Which is one reason I wake up to 1010 WINS and sometimes WCBS. Thank goodness we're no longer limited to local radio during daylight hours.
 
Do not be surprised if you see us eliminate live news between 9p and 4am.
Budget cuts make tough decisions. People use radio differently in 2009.
 
wpeachtree said:
Do not be surprised if you see us eliminate live news between 9p and 4am.
Budget cuts make tough decisions. People use radio differently in 2009.
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I would think that news would be eliminated from 9a-4p because of the way people use the Internet. That's one of the reasons TV network news is obsolete. By the time most people watch the big three networks, it's not really news thanks to the Internet and talk radio. Those who get news from the likes of Boortz, Rush, Beck and Hannity, don't need it anyplace else. Sadly, there are a great number who believe that what they get from those talkers is news and not opinion.
 
JR1967 said:
It's a glaring omission that Atlanta, the seventh largest radio market, still does not have a 24-Hour all-news station, similar to WBBM (Chicago), WCBS (New York), or KYW Philadelphia. I remember when WGST was all-news when they were on 920AM and they were actually a decent news station, and that was long before the move to 640.
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It's a glaring omission that ATL has only one class A clear.
 
Not to pile on, but my pet peeves with We Suck and Blither are:

1. Long, tedious traffic reports in the non-drive times from people who seem to be high, because they can't talk without rambling...sometimes incoherently....resulting in:

2. Cutting off the forecast from Atlanta's Only Full Time Meterologist so that you don't get to hear anything but the forecast for the next 6 hours. Good grief people, if you can't give us at least tomorrow's forecast, why bother airing it? Cut the friggin' stoners doing the traffic another 10 seconds so we can hear the weather.

3. Teach the weekend board ops how to ride gain on the Telemix. Don't leave the callers up so high that a pulmonary specialist could diagnose bronchitis over the air. When it's up that high, the callers sound hollow, the talent sounds like dog squeeze, and the caller steps all over the talent when they take a breath. Even college jocks are trained better.

4. And Boortz, do you think that every once in a while you could actually debate a point with a serious caller who disagrees with you? If you are so smart, can't you argue a point without calling them names and cutting them off? Even Tom Houck and Ralph from Ben Hill could do that.

...we now return you to your life, already in progress.
 
OgOgglby said:
Not to pile on, but my pet peeves with We Suck and Blither are:

1. Long, tedious traffic reports in the non-drive times from people who seem to be high, because they can't talk without rambling...sometimes incoherently....resulting in:

2. Cutting off the forecast from Atlanta's Only Full Time Meterologist so that you don't get to hear anything but the forecast for the next 6 hours. Good grief people, if you can't give us at least tomorrow's forecast, why bother airing it? Cut the friggin' stoners doing the traffic another 10 seconds so we can hear the weather.

3. Teach the weekend board ops how to ride gain on the Telemix. Don't leave the callers up so high that a pulmonary specialist could diagnose bronchitis over the air. When it's up that high, the callers sound hollow, the talent sounds like dog squeeze, and the caller steps all over the talent when they take a breath. Even college jocks are trained better.

4. And Boortz, do you think that every once in a while you could actually debate a point with a serious caller who disagrees with you? If you are so smart, can't you argue a point without calling them names and cutting them off? Even Tom Houck and Ralph from Ben Hill could do that.

...we now return you to your life, already in progress.
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1. I know everyone likes Cap'n Herb, but he really makes me miss Keith Kalland. KK would give alternate routes, and sometimes alternates to the alternates when the primary alternates were jammed. He would also mention surface-street problems if time permitted--usually when one or more of the interstates were hopelessly jammed and not worthy of additional commentary ("stick a fork in it"). Cap'n Herb doesn't sound like a stoner (insert joke about his radio name here), but he does ramble.

2. I know it's part of the game, but I really wish Kirk Melhuish would quit teasing people through break after break after break about the weather forecast. How many breaks are people willing to listen through, particularly in this iPhone age? Also, for someone that claims that he doesn't create hysteria about severe weather events, he's probably the worst on the radio at doing that (TV is another story). Kirk is a professional--the folks at Cox should let him act like one.

4. Boortz used to be a lot better about this. Either he's losing his game, losing his patience, or someone has decided that throwing red meat to the core listeners makes for better radio than an extended debate. It's not for a lack of talking points and other researched resources. My guess is that extended debates cause some folks to change the station, but makes the station "stickier" for others. Cume vs. TSL again.
 
To clarify...I have no problem with drive time traffic. The Captain is a good guy and I could never do his job in a copter. What I don't get is some of the clueless folks they have outside of drive times.
 
OgOgglby said:
To clarify...I have no problem with drive time traffic. The Captain is a good guy and I could never do his job in a copter. What I don't get is some of the clueless folks they have outside of drive times.
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Those "clueless folks" work for Metro Networks and not for WSB. Metro seems to use its best reporters for the drivetimes on all stations. Like most companies right now, Metro is limited in what it can afford to pay.
 
Heck Metro is straining its own people so much since they went to the Traffic reporting from the 13 hub cities. speaking of which is Atlanta one of them or Charlotte or somewhere in florida. i Know the Midwest has Chicago and Detroit. Phoenix, NYC, and LA are hubs so thats 5 of 13. im Sure maybe seattle takes care of the northwest. so that would be 6
 
There is a serious mouth-marbles problem with a couple of the Metro people and it's weird given the sad state of affairs in radio employment today...that there isn't more, better talent available. Unless I'm mistaken, Scott Slade was plucked from being a traffic reporter (not from Metro I think) to being the main WSB anchor back in 1992--1993 as Greg Moceri rebuilt that station. So, good talent can flourish no matter what.
 
hail2theorange.....unfortunately, wsb anchors mispronounce words all the time. Middle Eastern cities and countries in particular give them trouble. There's no excuse for mispronouncing Boehner's name, though. He's constantly in the news.
 
Given that Boehner is the REPUBLICAN leader, you'd think the core WSB audience would be up in arms!

Some of the listeners of Boston's WRKO occasionally carp about what they perceive as a slant (or perhaps, a lack of adherence to the slant of the talk programming) in WRKO's newscasts, also produced by Metro.
 
Neil Millman said:
wpeachtree said:
Do not be surprised if you see us eliminate live news between 9p and 4am.
Budget cuts make tough decisions. People use radio differently in 2009.
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I would think that news would be eliminated from 9a-4p because of the way people use the Internet. That's one of the reasons TV network news is obsolete. By the time most people watch the big three networks, it's not really news thanks to the Internet and talk radio. Those who get news from the likes of Boortz, Rush, Beck and Hannity, don't need it anyplace else. Sadly, there are a great number who believe that what they get from those talkers is news and not opinion.
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Local news stations will never be obsolete and people are still watching. They want to hear about their own communities. Most people stopped watching the Network News due to the politics being thrown at them.
 
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