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This CAN'T be Jay Severin...or was it?

In the several years that Severin has been on WTKK, I doubt that I have tuned in as many as half a dozen times, but I do think I can recognize his voice. I am a casual enough listener, though, that I suspect I can be fooled by someone whose voice and intonations are similar. Well, yesterday, Saturday, 5/23/09 in the early afternoon (starting around noon), I heard such a voice doing the TOH and :18 and :38 breaks at WBUR. Later in the shift, the person gave his name--Adam Ragusia, IIRC. Anybody here know him? Where else has he worked in this market? Has anyone else noticed the similarity of his voice to that of Mr Severino?

With WTKK perhaps trying to renegotiate the contract of the million-dollar man, could he actually be working under an assumed name for $20/hour (my guess; I have no idea what WBUR pays its "booth" announcers) at, of all places, WBUR?
 
Did a little checking...

http://www.wbur.org/2009/05/11/dimasis-seat
>>Battle For DiMasi’s Seat Brings Diverse Candidates To North End

>>By ADAM RAGUSEA (WBUR)

Listen to it--it does sound slightly like him but I don't think it's him
Link below is long; if you want try. Ragusea's voice starts at 0:40 in
http://tinyurl.com/rxl9pz

http://www.wbur.org/media-player?fi...s Seat Brings Diverse Candidates To North End

During Severin's contract negotiations with WTKK a couple years ago he COULD be heard doing
fill ins via ISDN line at various stations
 
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