[BC] One More Telephone Query

[Wayne Woollard]

I would place all bets on what Kevin Tekel has ascertained.  There were real 
"Announcers" in those early radio days, and the quality of the voice 
reproduction in old receivers was marginal, also the listening audience was 
attuned to listening to "Announcers," rather than ordinary diction 
methodologies.
WW
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From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
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Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 2:37 PM
Subject: [BC] One More Telephone Query


> So, we've established that the technology for putting phone callers on the 
> air DID exist, even in the 1920s and 30s; and yet in the late 40s, talk 
> hosts were still using paraphrase-- Ed and Wendy King of KDKA in 
> Pittsburgh and the late shock jock Joe Pyne, to give several examples. 
> The talk host would repeat what the callers had said, rather than letting 
> the callers' voice be heard on the air.  Is there a reason they did it 
> that way?  Lack of a seven second delay perhaps?
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