[BC] Re: Curious edits

[Margaret Bryant]

Willie-
I know it well. Coming to ABC Radio Networks after years at local radio, it took me  many months to not jump up everytime there was a "dead break" in programming for the local stations to air their local spots. I can't tell you how many times in that first year that I would be on the way to the studio only to realize I'd been caught again and that the 2 or 3 minutes of dead air was intentional. 

Margaret 

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:04:32 EST
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Subject: Re: [BC] Curious edits
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In a message dated 02/22/2006 08:58:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
cld at admin.umass.edu writes:

> It was a Pavlovian thing that occured over, and over, and over.... a evil 
> use of the "live edit".

LOL! I know the feeling... we have a few national programs that are infamous 
for their "dramatic pauses" during the sermons. I'll be in the middle of a 
conversation with someone, and will cut myself off mid-word, and hold up a hand, 
with the muscles in my legs tensing-up, preparing to dash into the studio... 
just as the adrenalin begins to surge, he starts talking again. Sometimes, tho, 
I am already enroute to the studio when he resumes.

Argh!

A sigh of relief, a brief explanation to the other person (if they're not a 
staffer) and back to the interrupted conversation. ;)

Willie...