nprfreshair: szechwean: shutupweirdo: The Announcer’s Test originated at Radio Central New York in the early 1940’s as a cold reading test given to prospective radio talent to demonstrate their speaking ability. It’s good to know that I could have been a radio announcer in the 1940s. And a partridge in a pear tree.

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shutupweirdo:

The Announcer’s Test originated at Radio Central New York in the early 1940’s as a cold reading test given to prospective radio talent to demonstrate their speaking ability.

It’s good to know that I could have been a radio announcer in the 1940s.

And a partridge in a pear tree.

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    See more about the announcers test at Wikipedia.
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