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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0270 – The News Channel Read
Description: 2021.09.27 – 0270 – The News Channel ReadThis is the style of intonation in which every story is read in a similar style. It takes its name from the ’24-hour news’ style, where presenters don’t have time to read new stories off air before they do so on air. They get into a ‘reading rut’, a muscle-memory delivery that has the same pattern and intonation, rise and fall. Such a delivery is usually not very wrong, but not completely right either. It’s a basic non-committal, neutral safe style that ‘alright’ rather than ‘all right’, and ‘passable’ rather than ‘polished’. With...