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Hey Sam Clover: it is "KAY-WHY-DOUBLE-YOU"

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As close as I can determine, Sam Clover gets by on each KYW traffic report by belching the call letters as a half syllable that, to me, sounds like "K-B." The KYW morning male anchor is not much better.
How does management let them slide with something like that?
 
Simply because everybody already knows what they are listening to, the same comfortable morning anchors doing the same thing they've been doing for decades, kaay-Wa-dubya News time is...... Saying the call letters syllable by syllable takes an extra .3 additional seconds. And who really has time for that, when you're stuck on the expressway, waiting for traffic two's, telling you you're stuck in traffic. Huh?
 
I have not listened to KYW in a long time so I cannot acknowledge what the poster was specifically referring to, but anytime an on-air talent is relied upon to provide information to a willing-to-listen audience, EVERY word counts. Not pronouncing a syllable is simply sloppy broadcasting. It DOES matter whether the audience knows what they're listening to or not. Most broadcasters that have a "W" in the station's name know always to remember in their minds "Double U" as the way to say that letter. Anything else is, again, sloppy. Natives to Philly, and it seems to this outsider that no one ever leaves this market (which is sad in its own right), have such interesting dialects, especially in pronouncing the letter "P".



BTW, there are also so many more time-sensitive ways to get the latest traffic information in one's car than waiting to listen to a radio station dictate to you when it's time to provide that information. That's passe.
 
I sincerely believe these guys are actually encouraged by management to commit this linguisticide.

Remember Beth Tripani? Couldn't pronounce her own name. For year I thought her name was "Kirpani". And what she did to the calls to this day remains the champion. "Keh worba deel".

The mispronunciations of one of the simplest to say right call letters on earth run the gammut from "Keh wuh dubya" to "kay b dubble yule", and many pertubations in between.

Oh, and lets not forget the morning traffic dude. Can;t remeber his name, but according to him it's Kay wuh dubba news radio".
 
HGN2001 said:
My favorite is "kay-wah-dubble-doo doos time is..."

And did anyone ever fix Bill Shusta's microphone?

::)
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The 780 WBBM anchors in Chicago are worse.....

Instead of saying "Double-You Be Be Emm" it's "Double-Uh Be b Em" where the second "B" becomes a swallowed syllable.
 
Yes, that is Tawa, the one who sounds like he always has a head cold.

Tawa also cannot say the word "average" (which ends up av-idge). He just plain drops the "r". He does it with some other words that have an "r" buried in the middle too, but none come to mind at this point.
 
Actually, I can see why there's an outcry over this issue. Listening online, I can hear Harry Donahue pronounce KYW's call letters as if Peter Griffin recited all fifty state capitals in a quarter-second.
 
DToTheJ said:
Actually, I can see why there's an outcry over this issue. Listening online, I can hear Harry Donahue pronounce KYW's call letters as if Peter Griffin recited all fifty state capitals in a quarter-second.
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LMAO!!!
Really though, I'm just glad I listen to 1010 WINS, they can't hash that up.
 
RE: I sincerely believe these guys are actually encouraged by management to commit this linguisticide.


Why would management at any station encourage an on-air broadcaster to screw up pronunciation of syllables or words? If true, why would anyone that's posted here listen to KYW? Certainly no one wants to listen to broadcasters that can't pronounce syllables and words. I don't listen to KYW so I don't really care either way, just curious as to why anyone thinks a station would purposely make mistakes. It goes against credibility. Or, as a non-native, asking if this a parochial Philly/KYW insider joke to mispronounce on purpose?
 
bsquared11 said:
RE: I sincerely believe these guys are actually encouraged by management to commit this linguisticide.


Why would management at any station encourage an on-air broadcaster to screw up pronunciation of syllables or words? If true, why would anyone that's posted here listen to KYW? Certainly no one wants to listen to broadcasters that can't pronounce syllables and words. I don't listen to KYW so I don't really care either way, just curious as to why anyone thinks a station would purposely make mistakes. It goes against credibility. Or, as a non-native, asking if this a parochial Philly/KYW insider joke to mispronounce on purpose?
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If you said it dozens of times a day, might you not start slipping a little bit? Does the average listener notice or even care? They get their news, weather, traffic, sports. As they say, "You give [them] 22 minutes, they'll give [you] the world."
 
I can live with the mangled call letters. We've just spent eight years calling our President "dub-ya."

What I wish Clover would do: Cut down on all the unnecessary verbiage in your reports. "This is a really bad accident. Police are responding. Drivers are better off taking another route. We'll have a report from Al Novak coming up in just a minute." How about focusing on the what and where and leaving the rest of the stuff out?

His reports, sometimes, have become REALLY long, and there is actually less useful information in them, especially if you live in the suburbs. Does he get a signal (maybe a light or something?) from the anchors in the studio telling him to wrap up his report? Sometimes it seems like he talks so much about one or two major things that he leaves the rest of the info out, like someone is signalling him to wrap it up already.

I much prefer John Brown's and Pat Winters' styles. Just the facts, and all the facts.

I'll contribute one anchor habit that makes me change the station: Carol McKenzie's "Good MORNING!"
at :15 after the hour. Yech.
 
That's so funny because I was thinking about it just this morning while Clover was doing a report. It was getting really long and suddenly he said (paraphrasing), "I'll wrap up with this last one..." I wondered whether that was prompted by someone telling him he'd gone on for long enough!

And yes, Carol McKenzie's forced "Good moooooorning"'s are enough to drive anyone crazy. Why does she do that?!?!?!
 
Soon Yi CIV.V said:
That's so funny because I was thinking about it just this morning while Clover was doing a report. It was getting really long and suddenly he said (paraphrasing), "I'll wrap up with this last one..." I wondered whether that was prompted by someone telling him he'd gone on for long enough!

And yes, Carol McKenzie's forced "Good moooooorning"'s are enough to drive anyone crazy. Why does she do that?!?!?!
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I admit those are the reasons why I don't listen to KYW during morning drive anymore.
 
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