News talk and lisps

Stoner

Am I the only one who thinks there is a disproportionately high percentage of news readers and advert readers on News Talk who have a lisp??

That woman who reads the news, the guy who guests on the morning show sometimes, the woman who reads loads of adverts (Noyeks Newman comes to mind) there is another male advert reader with a savage lisp. Sometimes when I listen to News Talk in the car I'm tempted to turn the wipers on.

Solair

I think the issue's being made worse by the fact that newstalk may not have the greatest mics and the FM signal could be quite compressed.

The sound quality is often not the greatest.

Stoner

yeah that's a fair comment, but it does sound good for some shows though

Dave!

What annoys me is that one of the news readers ALWAYS sounds like she is saying GERMAN election rather than GENERAL election....... Annoying

Bard

Could be worse, they could sound like MOYCHILL MAC MULLLLINNNN doing the sports report after the news on Today FM. God I cringe when I hear his atrocity of a D4 'twang'...

Badabing

It is worse gerry o' sullivan must have the most annoying voice on radio!

dulpit

I think the worst is one of the news readers on today fm in the morning, she sounds like she has a permanent head-cold, all bunged up etc. Makes me feel like i have a cold too...

RadioRetro

DaveMcG wrote:

What annoys me is that one of the news readers ALWAYS sounds like she is saying GERMAN election rather than GENERAL election....... Annoying

Is that that Erina, the lady from New Zealand? She sounds hot.

Dave!

Nah it aint her, it's an Irish woman. She does sound hot though.

Mr E

Anyone else smile when George Hook tries to say Karlin Lillington?

DMC

I often wonder do they wash George's mic windshields after every show....

Firetrap

Murph on the sports program has a lisp as well. Nothing to do with the microphone - the guy just can't talk properly and shouldn't be let near a mike.

Stoner

allie_e17 wrote:

Murph on the sports program has a lisp as well. Nothing to do with the microphone - the guy just can't talk properly and shouldn't be let near a mike.

hehe, but I like him though, he has a bit of character and he wants to be involved in sports, so he is on the radio because he knows about sports. good point though, I never even considered him. It's people who are on the raido with lisps who are simply there as a voice that i dont understand.

Greenman

Solair wrote:

I think the issue's being made worse by the fact that newstalk may not have the greatest mics and the FM signal could be quite compressed.

The sound quality is often not the greatest.

I find NT's audio is changeable ie good and bad ie overmodulated. I listen on satellite and on a recent visit listened on FM and found it was a bit raspy too.

Are they in mono?

Always found 2FM overmodulated on satellite.

flodis79

Greenman wrote:

Are they in mono?

yeah Newstalk are in mono. found out when they played some music in the Sunday shows.