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In article <3E4424A6.9C99531D@sig.please.because.this.is.invalid>,
mjdix@sonic.net wrote:


> Years ago, I was driving the length of Indiana. Somewhere near
> Indianapolis, a furniture store ad came on the radio, offering
> deals on living room "suits", bedroom suits, and dining room
> suits. For a moment I speculated on what would be appropriate
> attire for each room, then shook my head.


I used to have a friend who was an announcer for a little tiny radio
station, the kind that only has one person in the whole station during
non-work hours.  I would go up and visit him on the weekends, since it's a
pretty lonely job, even though he was talking to all these people.  Most
of the ads he played were canned, but once in a while he would have to
read one himself on the air.  I asked him why some were read directly on
the air instead of having the guy with the best voice record it a few
times until it was perfect.  I expected some corny theory about
"spontaneity".  He explained that it was to save the $5.00 the station
would have charged for a production fee!  You can imagine how motivated
the announcers were to get these ads right, knowing that they were doing
this just to save a lousy few bucks.

-- 
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS
dabel@sonic.net