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Bill Haberman- like Ceech and Chong doing the News.

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awardmrnobody

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Like listening to some 16 yr old, high on Pot doing the news.. The Only WPRO News person
who's efferts are to make the News sound like a Circus. Completely UN PROFESSIONAL. :mad:
 
Similar to you making grown men look like 5 year old boys who aren't able to spell simple words like effo.

Bill brings a much more relaxed tilt to the news, which is MUCH needed in the morning.
 
In my house, everyone loves Haberman. He gets turned on at 5:00 a.m. and someone in the house is listening to him till 12:00 p.m. We
love his presentation and his little bits of foolishness when the subject is light.
 
mrs joy said:
In my house, everyone loves Haberman. He gets turned on at 5:00 a.m. and someone in the house is listening to him till 12:00 p.m. We
love his presentation and his little bits of foolishness when the subject is light.
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Oh, you mean you don't like Steve Klampkin doing the anchoring in the morning?

Steve is a great reporter.... VERY bad anchor.
 
Not only is it "efforts;" it's also "Cheech." Now then...

I started listening to WPRO 40 years ago, and WPRO News has NEVER sounded better than it does right now.

With all due respect to the fine folks I worked alongside there in the 70s, and friends who have done news there since, the status quo is best-ever, in-terms-of story selection, scripting, and outside-the-building reporting.

When I worked there, "WPRO News" was mostly "a brand."
Familiar deep voices read often-stale wire copy.
There was very little on-scene reporting.
I DJ'd at night, and when we eliminated night news nobody squawked.

I am especially impressed with Bill Haberman, whose airchecks (among others) I use when I visit stations elsewhere.
To my ear, his high-story-count, vernacular style, and "real people" delivery really work.
Love the sentence fragments.
(Oops. I just WROTE one!)

The PD at one station I work with in the Midwest listened, amused, to a Haberman newscast I played; and said "What he left out is less-important than what he left-in," HIGH praise, since the mission of a WPRO-type station is being-handy-to-busy-people-in-car.

The station owner there, attending the meeting, asked me to bring fresh Haberman tape on the next visit!

Having struggled to recruit news people at several stations recently, I only wish that human cloning was farther-along...

HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
Efforts.. Sorry I type quicke (opps! did I do an EEEEE)

I keep forgetting, half of you are Pot Heads, soooooooo... ;D
 
I agree sometimes he sounds like he's on the verge of a giggle but at least he has a recognizable style that can't be mistaken for any other generic sounding news "announcer". The only thing is that sometimes with his abbreviated way of delivering a story, if you don't already know something about the story itself beforehand you may be in the dark as to what's really happening.
 
ka-CHING

McRadio said:
he has a recognizable style that can't be mistaken for any other generic sounding news "announcer"
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Why incredibly-successful stations sound "odd," especially to people-from-somewhere-else?

One of radio's enduring ironies is that Arbitron's diary-based unaided recall methodology -- A MEMORY TEST -- punishes sound-alike conformity and rewards stations-that-SOUND DIFFERENT, break-the-mold, and otherwise pop-out-the-speaker.

Meanwhile, most stations seem-to-TRY-to-sound-alike. Growling-disembodied/unidentified-voice-from-somewhere-else imaging, Republicans-good/Democrats-bad I-talk-you-listen programming, blah blah blah.

Back-in-the-day, chums-from-out-of-town would visit, eager to hear legendary Salty Brine...and scratch their heads.
Nearby, in Hartford, WTIC's Bob Steele had a similar effect...and similarly-dominant ratings.
Neither of these iconic personalities could've called a cab in another market...and they SURE sounded different than the competition.
Thus their success.

"CLEANSE!!! CLEANSE!!!"
 
Back on Friday Bill had said the stock market wasn't going to open. Then it did. What was that all about?
Maybe it was a joke? ???
 
I heard Bill say that the Stock Mkt wouldn't open for another 3/4 hr (which would be at regular time 9:30 a.m.) It was 8:45 a.m. when he said that.
 
Thanks for that Mrs joy. The reason I brought it up was because some one of my friends had heard it the way I thought I had. Probably just mis heard it. thanks.
 
wc3434 said:
Back on Friday Bill had said the stock market wasn't going to open. Then it did. What was that all about?
Maybe it was a joke? ???
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im sure bill dose not make up his own news so im sure it must have been reported to him that way... remember he is a news anchor so he is readin a script!!! but on to the topic.... i like his style on of the better newsmen around he
 
I prefer Josie Guarino and Steve Clampkin. Straight and serious.
 
alfieradioguy said:
I prefer Josie Guarino and Steve Clampkin. Straight and serious.
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Klampkin is a great reporter, but I really really wish they'd find someone else to fill in for Bill when he takes time off. Steve just isn't a great anchor.
 
Re: Not only is it "efforts;" it's also "Cheech." Now then...

Holland Cooke said:
I started listening to WPRO 40 years ago, and WPRO News has NEVER sounded better than it does right now.
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Close to a year ago, I developed this same theory and I feel the same way as you Holland 100%. Paul has done a great job with the station. Likewise, Nick (APD) does a lot to shape what the station is. From the award winning local news, local weekday programming from 5am to 9pm, local weekend programming and overall tight and sleek sounding imaging, the station is next to none. I do most Sunday's over on Lite Rock, but I am proud to say that I fill in as a producer for WPRO on occasion and enjoy doing a little something to help out a winning team. In a time when radio evolving quickly and becoming more cookie cutter, it's nice to be able to say something in a purely positive manner as such. I'm not saying this just because I work in the building either; I'd say this looking in from the outside as well I am sure.
 
I do think WPRO news has sounded good over the last 15-20 years from the days of Milt Fullerton & Laurie Johnson with Greg Perry, Chris Camp, Rory O'Neill & Laura Cannon with Marc Silberstein, Bill Haberman and Glenn Laxton doing weekend updates all the way to the present, it has been a class staff on the ball the whole time....The oil spill case off Matunuck, The Brendle murders, Credit Union Crisis, etc...all award winning stories that WPRO got AP recognition for coverage on.
 
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