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Who Does News for TellMe?

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pdxmitch

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This may or may not be radio-related, depending on what the answer is. Does anyone recognize the voices reading news on TellMe, the free informaion line at 1-800-555-TELL? The readers sound professional, but they never identify themselves. The technology and entertainment reports are branded as "The Tech Vine" and "Hollywood Hot Sheet," but I couldn't Google up anything related. It seems like an unnecessary expense to produce the content in-house, but that sounds like what they're doing. Any thoughts?
 
> This may or may not be radio-related, depending on what the
> answer is. Does anyone recognize the voices reading news on
> TellMe, the free informaion line at 1-800-555-TELL? The
> readers sound professional, but they never identify
> themselves. The technology and entertainment reports are
> branded as "The Tech Vine" and "Hollywood Hot Sheet," but I
> couldn't Google up anything related. It seems like an
> unnecessary expense to produce the content in-house, but
> that sounds like what they're doing. Any thoughts?

What ever happened to that service? I used it once or twice to get location/diretions when I was out-of-town; didn't see how it could work for $0.99 for a 15-min call.

Perhaps they're now using the same synthesized voices XM Traffic uses. Although it's not like free information services by phone are anything new. Seems pretty 1994 to me.
 
> > This may or may not be radio-related, depending on what
> the
> > answer is. Does anyone recognize the voices reading news
> on
> > TellMe, the free informaion line at 1-800-555-TELL? The
> > readers sound professional, but they never identify
> > themselves. The technology and entertainment reports are
> > branded as "The Tech Vine" and "Hollywood Hot Sheet," but
> I
> > couldn't Google up anything related. It seems like an
> > unnecessary expense to produce the content in-house, but
> > that sounds like what they're doing. Any thoughts?
>
> What ever happened to that service? I used it once or twice
> to get location/diretions when I was out-of-town; didn't see
> how it could work for $0.99 for a 15-min call.
>
> Perhaps they're now using the same synthesized voices XM
> Traffic uses. Although it's not like free information
> services by phone are anything new. Seems pretty 1994 to me.
>
It's completely free. What is this $0.99? And the voices aren't synthesized.
 
> It's completely free. What is this $0.99? And the voices
> aren't synthesized.

It used to cost when they had live operators to answer any question.
 
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