"We Have Been Listening"
HE voice of the announcer is imperturbable, unimpassioned even; a correctly and clearly enunciated statement of fact. With the omniscience born of experience, the triumph over difficulties secret to himself and his cohorts, he foretells the immediate future, and it happens. Sometimes he may, by the
inflections of his voice, suggest that he hopes the listener has been pleased; but whether he was interested, excited, bored, or indeed whether he even heard the broadcast, you know not. "You have been listening to-" he says, and becomes a man apart, completely detached from the event. Recently a 2YA announcer varied his back announcement by saying: "We have been listening to-." The effect was magical. The variation may have been indicative of a spontaneous interest in the preceding music of no more than variety for variety’s sake. No matter. There was a ‘new intimacy. Both sides of the microphone came together. Music had come right into the room.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 8
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160"We Have Been Listening" New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 8
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