23-08-2021, 04:37 PM
I have a lot of this trouble with speech radio too. My ears are old but they ain’t so bad. The other day I was listing to a discussion on either Times Radio or Radio 4 and I couldn’t figure out what was being said by some of the participants. And that is before interviews over the phone with the inevitable loss of mobile phone signal, bubbling mud garbling, internet delay and all the rest. Then there is the habit of playing music under speech – especially sports – to up the drama. The latter was annoying me years ago but it seems to be a 5 Live thing in the main and I’ve given up that station (and probably infects commercial sports stations too but I don’t listen to them either).
Given the make-do situation of the last eighteen months, viewers and listeners have got used to lower production values and thus these will never go back to what they were. If the journalist/presenter, etc., can hack the technical op’s job then that’s one less person you need. As a man who had run a manufacturing business for forty years – and seen plenty of rivals close down – once said to me: “You deliver the lowest quality the customers will accept.”
Given the make-do situation of the last eighteen months, viewers and listeners have got used to lower production values and thus these will never go back to what they were. If the journalist/presenter, etc., can hack the technical op’s job then that’s one less person you need. As a man who had run a manufacturing business for forty years – and seen plenty of rivals close down – once said to me: “You deliver the lowest quality the customers will accept.”
Nick
