Ready To Choke KYW Anchors

[SixTowers]

This morning on Newsradio KYW, each timecheck has ended with "Eastern Daylight Time". I know DST started at 2 this morning, however, is it really necessary to keep pounding "Eastern Daylight Time" into the dirt? Seems that giving the time only with maybe an occasional mention of "did you turn your clocks ahead last night?" would suffice.

Are KYW listeners so dense that they need constant reminders that the time is now "Eastern Daylight Time"? (Don't answer that!)

 

[ixnay]

> This morning on Newsradio KYW, each timecheck has ended with
> "Eastern Daylight Time". I know DST started at 2 this
> morning, however, is it really necessary to keep pounding
> "Eastern Daylight Time" into the dirt? Seems that giving the
> time only with maybe an occasional mention of "did you turn
> your clocks ahead last night?" would suffice.
>
> Are KYW listeners so dense that they need constant reminders
> that the time is now "Eastern Daylight Time"? (Don't answer
> that!)
>

They do that every year on the "Spring Forward" day.

And on the "Fall Back" day they say "Eastern Standard Time".

I think they're helping out the Rip Van Winkles and Sleeping Beauties that dozed off early last night without tinkering with their timepieces and are just arising.

Next year, though, you won't have to worry about hearing that mantra over and over. At least on the first Sunday of April and the last Sunday of October. The time changes were been changed by the stroke of Bush's pen last summer on energy spending legislation. So get ready to hear those mantras on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November starting in 2007.

ixnay<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ixnay on 04/02/06 05:02 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[elevator_opratr]

You must be a new listener to KYW (or never listened on time change day), because they've been doing that everytime there's a time change for as long as I can remember.

It is a bit annoying, but is essential. Yes, the common listener is that dense. Trust me. Work at a radio station like I've done late at night and get ready for all the calls from the little old ladies asking you "for the correct time" and then asking "is that the new time, or the old time?"<P ID="signature">______________

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[ixnay]

> It is a bit annoying, but is essential.

I've never found it annoying. Do any other stations around the country do that on the days of the time changes?

ixnay

 

[Jim_Hicks]

Likewise, it did not bother me one bit.

> > It is a bit annoying, but is essential.
>
> I've never found it annoying. Do any other stations
> around the country do that on the days of the time changes?
>
> ixnay
>
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Jim_Hicks on 04/03/06 10:45 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[tl5garth]

Wow! This didn't bother me at all. I'm trying to figure out how stressed out one must be in order to find 3 extra words that irritating!

 

[Zzzzz]

> Wow! This didn't bother me at all. I'm trying to figure
> out how stressed out one must be in order to find 3 extra
> words that irritating!
>
Really. I get MUCH more irritated at how Bill Shusta adds an extra syllable "ah" to the word "and," as in "traffic and-ah transit."

 

[SixTowers]

Ready To Choke KYW Overall

> Wow! This didn't bother me at all. I'm trying to figure
> out how stressed out one must be in order to find 3 extra
> words that irritating!
>

Listen for an hour straight. They do timechecks every couple of minutes. Then, add "Eastern Daylight Time" to the end of each timecheck...and S-T-R-E-S-S the "Eastern Daylight Time" aspect more than the time. And, yes...it does get even MORE annoying if you listen longer.

Maybe I just find their overall reporting to be insipid and that was the final straw. I long for them to have some honest competition so that the listener can hear just how bad they are; when one has no competition, there is no motivation to excel.

 

[coops48]

> Likewise, it did not bother me one bit.
>
> > > It is a bit annoying, but is essential.
> >
> > I've never found it annoying. Do any other stations
> > around the country do that on the days of the time
> changes?
> >
> > ixnay
> >
>
It's only 2 days out of the year....relax. BTW I am writing this on Monday, April 3 at 3:21 pm eastern daylight time. )))

 

[zoey]

> Really. I get MUCH more irritated at how Bill Shusta adds an
> extra syllable "ah" to the word "and," as in "traffic and-ah
> transit."
>

A graduate of the Lawrence Welk School of Broadcasting.

 

[Evangelist]

Re: Ready To Choke KYW Overall

> > Wow! This didn't bother me at all. I'm trying to figure
> > out how stressed out one must be in order to find 3 extra
> > words that irritating!
> >
>
> Listen for an hour straight. They do timechecks every couple
> of minutes. Then, add "Eastern Daylight Time" to the end of
> each timecheck...and S-T-R-E-S-S the "Eastern Daylight Time"
> aspect more than the time. And, yes...it does get even MORE
> annoying if you listen longer.
>
> Maybe I just find their overall reporting to be insipid and
> that was the final straw. I long for them to have some
> honest competition so that the listener can hear just how
> bad they are; when one has no competition, there is no
> motivation to excel.
>

Listen to various radio newscasts from around the country. Listen to KYW's co-owned 1010 WINS in New York. They don't do news as well. I'm glad that KYW takes an interest in city government. You'd be surprised how many stations in so many markets do not. Ditto for state government.