Bullet IN, Bullet IN: It's a hard 'T' but today's generation pronounces it like: Bul-led IN. The 'D' in Bulled replaces the 'T' and the IN is emphasized. Drives me crazy! Butt IN. Push the butt-IN to ring the door bell. by Jason Remington on Pronunciation. How important is it that TV news people speak the PNW language?
How you say?: During the Vietnam skirmish, a few of us youngsters, just learning the radio newsreading ropes, decided to rename some of the names in the newscasts into to something easier to say. Niet Dang Tuang became Jonathan Smythe etc. by Jason Remington on Pronunciation. How important is it that TV news people speak the PNW language?
Let's chip in and buy Cumulus Media!: Per The Broadcasters' Desktop Resource Weekly Newsletter, https://www.thebdr.net/
Cumulus Media (CMLS) is expected to be delisted from the Nasdaq market on Friday, May 2nd.
It currently is hovering around 22 cents a share.
If you have a spare $3.1 to 4.6 million, you could buy the whole company. Of course, there is considerable debt associated with the $3/4 Billion “Enterprise Value.”
https://www.cumulusmedia.com/ by Dick Ellingson on FORUM: Off-Topic Comments
Sayin' it wrong: I was doing news on KFKF one Sunday and pronounced Sahalee about four different ways before surrendering with an apology. The phone lit up immediately.
I heard a national radio news guy say Pie-al-up WAH-shington when I was a kid. And a friend of mine, when he first came to Washington, pronounced Skamokawa SCAM-uh-COW-uh.
Tyrah may have been preoccupied from what she found in her purse after returning from her Roman Holiday.
And one Saturday at KMPS, a frantic listener called about a missing dog. My brain couldn't figure out whether it was a pooch or a pup, so I announced that a lady in West Seattle had lost her poop. Dick Goodman ran in from the newsroom and smiled gleefully.
As Kay Kyser used to tell erring contestants on the College of Musical Knowledge, "That's right, you're wrong!" by Dick Ellingson on Pronunciation. How important is it that TV news people speak the PNW language?