On Tuesday, March 9, 2021 at 10:16:50 AM UTC-5, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 3/9/2021 7:51 AM, Chris K-Man wrote:
On WBAI FM 99.5 IN NEW YORK CITY, the announcer of "A New Day" mis-announced the time as "7:27" when it was actually 7:47am. She did apologize and correct herself. This is a LOCAL, PRIVATELY FUNDED radio station with studio and transmitter both within the boundaries of NY City in the EASTERN TIME ZONE.
It's hard to get good help nowadays. I hear a lot of radio news
broadcasters mispronounce names of people and places, and some things.
They should know better. But the push for real time news has pretty much
done away with editing before broadcast.
So I'll ask once mo WHAT KIND OF CLOCK do these radio stations have on their wall, if any?
Generally studios have both an analog and a digital clock, and many have
a countdown clock as well so the announcer knows how much time there is
before the end of the hour.
But are you sure the announcer you mentioned above is actually looking
at a clock in the studio? Could be that she's at home with an improvised
studio, and just looked at her watch.
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Mike I noticed mis-telling of the time on the radio when "COVID" would have been the name of some sci-fi character. But your other explanations seem plausible.
I duck-ducked "broadcast studio clock" and came up with some incredible results: a monitor-based solution that displays not only time and date, but On-Air warning, VU levels for two sources, current program playing, etc, etc. As well as good old fashioned analog clocks, and digital ones with characters up to five inches high.
I used to think that radio stations had clocks that displayed only the minutes, and not the particular hour, explaining why the time they announced was periodically one hour off, in either direction!