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Post by morrisonhimself on Apr 3, 2010 21:00:22 GMT -5
Back in December, WSMC gave its listeners a wonderful Christmas and New Year's present: It changed to an even better over-night service and we listeners now get to hear, seven nights and mornings a week, the very great Peter van de Graaf.
Mr. van de Graaf operates from the Chicago studios of WFMT, and his beautiful voice announcing the composers and conductors makes an already sublime experience even better.
His enunciation and pronunciation are just about perfect, and those of us who have ever tried to broadcast classical music bow in admiring humility at the soothing and mellifluous sound of his voice.
Those of us who have had the pleasure and honor of meeting or speaking to him can only rejoice that a new audience will now get the chance to listen to one of the greatest announcers in broadcasting history, Peter van de Graaf.
And we urge everyone to let WSMC know how much we thank that station for this new service (actually re-newed service because, about 20 years ago, it was the overnight programming in use).
And I urge anyone who hasn't yet had the pleasure of listening to Peter van de Graaf to tune in to 90.5 any night after 10 p.m. You are in for a treat.
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Post by b33fj3rky on Apr 7, 2010 20:24:15 GMT -5
Is that freakin' pledge drive over yet?
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Post by Bob on Apr 7, 2010 20:33:24 GMT -5
So what you mean is WSMC decided to fire a local dj in favor of a less expensive option...
Gee thanks..
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Post by mikeydokey on Apr 7, 2010 22:38:00 GMT -5
I think I heard him on Art Bell a coupla times.
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Post by morrisonhimself on Apr 8, 2010 19:13:12 GMT -5
So what you mean is WSMC decided to fire a local dj in favor of a less expensive option... Gee thanks.. WRONG! As I said, WSMC changed to an even better overnight service. It hasn't had local staffers on the overnight shift since about 1987. Why do so many people leap at a chance to complain about something and they don't know what they're talking about? Besides, WSMC doesn't have a "dj"; it has announcers. |
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Post by morrisonhimself on Apr 8, 2010 19:14:20 GMT -5
I think I heard him on Art Bell a coupla times. Probably not. |
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Post by Bob on Apr 8, 2010 22:28:55 GMT -5
point. Haven't listened enough to know.
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Post by pictureman on Apr 9, 2010 10:41:21 GMT -5
Are you kiddin'?
Local deejays do well to pronounce their own names intelligibly; they don't stand a chance with Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff.
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Post by morrisonhimself on Apr 9, 2010 14:42:25 GMT -5
... Local deejays do well to pronounce their own names intelligibly; they don't stand a chance with Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff. There is a young woman who used to do "public service announcements" for some arts organization, who, last I heard, got a similar position with, naturally, a government agency. Bless her heart, she couldn't even pronounce "Mozart," and there is no way I have found to replicate what she did to "Rachmaninoff." However, there are some of us, though granted perhaps only a few, who, despite being "local deejays," actually can pronounce not only his name but others even more difficult to the Hillbilly eye and tongue. And all of this is very good reason to listen to Peter van de Graaf, who pronounces so beautifully ALL those difficult names. |
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Post by pictureman on Apr 9, 2010 17:33:51 GMT -5
Yoda: aka "John Doe"? I'll take your word for that since I don't speak...um...whatever language that is.
Morrisonhisself: I was poking gentle fun at disk-jockeys, a group of fun-seekers to which I once belonged. I just never thought of the WSMC announcers as "deejays". DJs play Buddy Holly; announcers play Berlioz.
Overnights it's Jazz with Bob Parlocha (DJ extraordinaire) and Peter van de Graaf (Communicator par excellence). Both good reasons to stay up late.
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Post by morrisonhimself on Apr 9, 2010 17:55:36 GMT -5
Pictureman, THANK YOU very much. As many times as I have heard "Bob Parlocha" I have NEVER known how to spell it. I could, of course, looked at WUTC's Web site, I guess, but never remembered I wanted to when I got away from my car radio. (Advice: Don't get old, any of you.)
And if you too were once a "deejay," then there must be a BUNCH of us here.
Who else is or was a record-spinner? (So far there are at least three.)
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Post by Bob on Apr 9, 2010 19:46:49 GMT -5
If you could have seen the history of this message board, there was until almost recently always a "local media" board. So many people got in trouble that Gary (at the time a DJ) decided to kill it. It opened on another board but never "hit"
Radio jocks/geeks/techs/flunkies have always been part of CMF.
Us "camera jocks" were considered outsiders at first but thanks in part to NewsShooter (who is now a "sound" jock) we're almost considered normal. (ok some of us [grin])
personally I rarely listen to "cultural" music. I do listen, but more often listen to Korn, Rob Zombie or Tull.
The only time I don't listen to streaming radio is when local DJs are playing.... Billy, Lila, Boner, Rabbit, David Mac to name the main ones.
Everyone that is a Chattanooga area DJ send me a PM with your name/call name, station and shift and I'll create a shameless plug that will be seen by my hundreds of facebook/myspace "friends"
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Post by pictureman on Apr 9, 2010 20:47:08 GMT -5
"The only time I don't listen to streaming radio is when local DJs are playing.... Billy, Lila, Boner, Rabbit, David Mac to name the main ones."
Careful, there, Bobber...that David Mac is a close personal friend of ours...
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Post by Bob on Apr 10, 2010 1:56:10 GMT -5
[shrug]
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