Re: "reading service"

[Doug Bassett <dbassett@sover.net>]

This is one of the few things that is keeping radio as we knew it alive...


At 13:15 06/08/1997 -0400, Keith Barry wrote:
>Volunteers simply call to say that they would like to read. If they can
>read, they are accepted. Also, many of the volunteers are elderly (and VERY
>RICH) and have nothing to do with their time, so they read. They are not
>very good readers, but the best available.
>People think I am a great reader (This is Keith Barry reading on OFF THE
>SHELF - catch me every so often reading a book) compared to some of the
>others. Just another note - the programming director at the Talking
>Information Centres in Marshfield is blind herself and does a wonderful job
>- I didn't even know until she told me (how embarassing!)
>Audio quality might be "upped" a bit when the book readers get new cassette
>decks (plain old C-90s from Rat Shack are the tapes used). The HD Audio from
>360 Systems work great for automation, though.
>                Keith Barry
>
>
>At 01:55 AM 6/8/97 -0400, Donna Halper wrote:
>>When I heard it, it sounded like the amateur hour. (I heard it as the audio
>>portion on one of the cable channels which is sometimes used for educational
>>information, such as town meetings, but mostly scrolls assorted PSAs the
>>majority of the time...)  What I heard was a person reading the AARP
>>Bulletin and monthly magazine verbatim, and making lots of mistakes.  Maybe
>>I caught them on a bad day, or maybe they don't have any funding to train
>>people or get interesting stuff to broadcast???  I've also heard a reader
>>reading wire copy, also verbatim and also with lots of pauses and stumbles.
>>
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>
>
Doug Bassett - dbassett@sover.net - West Brattleboro, Vt.

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