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Savannah traffic reports

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upstate29651

In this thread, we can amuse ourselves with the antics of the local traffic reporters.

It's painfully clear that Adventure hired folks who ain't from 'round here to do their traffic reports (which due to their canned nature tend to be not very up to date). Erin McKee seems to have problems properly pronouncing "Bethesda" (as in the home for boys on Ferguson Ave.), and Claire Beverly's ubiquitous "traffic is moving slowly from Moss Creek to the Bridges" (has Claire ever been to HHI? If so, she'd quickly find out that the distance between Moss Creek & the bridges is about 1/4 of a mile, if that?).

I also wonder why the Cumulus folks completely ignore traffic on the SC side of the river.

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Oh, and Erin, Guyton is pronounced "guy-nn", not "guy-en". This isn't Connecticut.

It's a pet peeve when traffic folks dont take the time to learn the local pronounciations.

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Yeah, it's kind-of sad that most Savannah traffic is read (yes, read) from other cities, such as Charleston and Atlanta. If the local stations (or the corporations themselves) had more money or wanted to invest in full-time reporters, they'd get a better product. I used to report Savannah traffic and begged my boss to let me move there b/c I liked the area and the stations so much. He wouldn't go for it since the bottom line is money and it's cheaper to produce it from other places.
 
sidechick1 said:
Yeah, it's kind-of sad that most Savannah traffic is read (yes, read) from other cities, such as Charleston and Atlanta. If the local stations (or the corporations themselves) had more money or wanted to invest in full-time reporters, they'd get a better product. I used to report Savannah traffic and begged my boss to let me move there b/c I liked the area and the stations so much. He wouldn't go for it since the bottom line is money and it's cheaper to produce it from other places.
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Okay, I'm stumped. How in the world can it be cheaper to do traffic from Atlanta than from Savannah? Seems to me the cost of living would be higher for the reporters in the larger city. It would make more sense for the traffic hub to be in Savannah and those reporters could do Atlanta traffic less expensively.
 
Yep, and some of the worst is on the Adventure stations. Since I can pick many of these stations 24/7 from where I live just south of Charleston, I hear their traffic reports often.

Even on Big 98.3, whose transmitter is fifty miles away from Hilton Head, at least, and during any tropo period, probably gets blasted by 98X from Charleston, they treat Hilton Head like it is bigger than Savannah. You hear more about the Hilton Head traffic troubles, and the while Savannah barely gets a passing mention most of the time.

Clear Channel at least talks about Savannah traffic more than Adventure, because Adventure is based in Hilton Head.
 
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