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Severin Is Bashing His Old Station On Twitter

The degree to which a person from the Boston area has the typical New England accent MAY JUST have something to do with education level and exposure to othah, I mean other places. My time in the USAF was spent in Washington State (Spokane and Tacoma), and it didn't take long to have any accent washed out. I was also a member of Toastmasters then. Now I know Congressman Ed Mahkey is well-travelled, but he was on Rachel Maddow's show last night on MSNBC, and he sounded a little bit like Parker Fennelly. (Unfamiliar with the name? Look him up on Wikipedia.)
 
"Shorn Hannity" (no, actually, Sean, as he pronounces it) is a Noo Yawker who lost his accent after doing shows in places like Atlanta and he has said losing the accent helped him when it came to
a national show. Rush Limbaugh hails from Cape Girardeau, MO and has a rather generic accent now (after having worked everywhere from Pittsburgh to Sacramento) while his brother David, an occasional TV and radio guest, still has a regional MO accent. Howie Carr who was born in Portland ME and grew up in Somerville, western MA, and even NC, has an accent that isn't necessarily outrageously New England but has weird pronunciation of words like "Syracuse", "collapsed",
and "Illinois" (Serra-cyoose, clapsed, ellen-oy). He does pronounce "aunt" as "ont" not like "ant", the
insect.

I don't think I've lost my own Boston accent--for me when I say the name of the capital city of
Conn it isn't Harrrtforrrd, it's Hahht-fiddd... Medford = "Med-fidd" (not Meffa, where did that come from?)...Stone-um...Wiss-tah... Gloss-tah....
 
My mother grew up in Worcester, and lived in the NY/NJ area from the age of 20 till she died in her 80s. She kept her strong MA accent the whole time.

We moved out of NJ when I was in middle school to an area that was much less accented (eastern long island). My strong Jersey accent was gone within a year. Per ridicule will do that.

My husband has a strong Boston accent, while my kids don't.

Michelle McPhee is strongly accented, and it certainly isn't a Boston accent.
 
I think your point was lost on just just about everyone that responded




WNTIRadio said:
I split my time between NJ and Boston, and I must say that all the whining about Severin and how "Boston deserves better" is truly amusing. At least Boston HAS not one, but two LOCAL talk stations and one semi-local station (1200). Sheesh. In NYC it's damn near impossible to find a local talk show anywhere. WABC has 2 hours of local talk in the mid-morning. WOR has Joan Hamburg talking about what she ate for dinner, what dumb Broadway show she saw and what her farts smell like from the dinner she ate last night. John Gambling is local in the AM on WOR. That's it. It's nice to hear some local hosts battle it out like the good ole days, and even if he is on a lesser AM signal, it will be interesting when he goes after Howie and whoever the heck is on RKO now.

I enjoy hearing about the topics on hand in the area, and how they affect Boston. In NYC all I get to hear is Sean Vannity yap to people with accents that sound like "Yer a graight Amurican, Shaawwnnn" all friggin afternoon.
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tazzers said:
Michelle McPhee is strongly accented, and it certainly isn't a Boston accent.
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I think Michelle has the most strongly stereotypical Boston accent I've ever heard. Central casting all the way.
 
Yeah, I think my point about having almost NO local talk shows in market #1 and a glut of them in #10 was lost in the accent argument.

The original point was that why in NYC (or any other major market) should there be not one, but 3 stations full of syndicated fare? Boston is lucky to have the variety and local-ism being offered on the dial for talk radio. My point with Hannity is that he's essentially an out of market show anywhere in the Northeast by virtue of most callers sounding like Kansas residents. Doesn't come off well in the Northeast.
 
Perhaps America is starting to wear off of its "Hannitization" as we approach the tenth anniversary of the syndication of Sean's show? (A factoid that he'll make sure listeners won't forget... started on September 10, 2001... Yeah, what a great American...)
 
The HD2 channel is currently not working on 107.9. It dosen't come in too good on AM because somebody in the neighborhood has the microwave oven on.
 
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