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radiosaur

From an unnamed traffic reporter on an unnamed station yesterday:

"Traffic flowing smoothly in Memphis, no major problems, except we have three injury crashes on the interstate"


Hate to see his/her idea of a bad day.
 
It may have been me, but I stand by what I said. We're not news reporters, we're traffic reporters. I don't care if there's a fatality on an accident, if all traffic lanes are open and traffic is moving fine, there's no major problem.
 
MemBirdman said:
It may have been me, but I stand by what I said. We're not news reporters, we're traffic reporters. I don't care if there's a fatality on an accident, if all traffic lanes are open and traffic is moving fine, there's no major problem.
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Gee, my thread's been revivied...

T'wasn't you, Bird.
 
radiosaur said:
MemBirdman said:
It may have been me, but I stand by what I said. We're not news reporters, we're traffic reporters. I don't care if there's a fatality on an accident, if all traffic lanes are open and traffic is moving fine, there's no major problem.
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Gee, my thread's been revivied...

T'wasn't you, Bird.
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Well, there have been times where during a report where I started singing to myself, "One of these things is not like the other..." It was a natural assumption.
 
Birdman makes a great point, though. It's a traffic report, not a crash report. I worked at a station where the traffic reports were often more than two minutes long, because the reporter would list accidents on surface streets that didn't affect traffic flow in a major way.
 
I have always wondered how does the salary of a traffic reporter compare to that of a regular deejay. Is it considerably less, comparable, etc? I know they often appear on several stations.
 
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