[BC] One More Telephone Query

[Bill Sepmeier]

That, and there were probably union rules regarding who could be on 
the air as well.l

At 07:33 AM 1/14/2008, you wrote:
>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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>>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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