Timeline for Word to refer to classic 1940s-1960s news voice
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| Jun 23, 2016 at 23:36 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Once again, Murrow and Cronkite were known for the calm, soothing timbre of their voices, not at all "yelling". | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 20:14 | history | edited | ognockocaten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 20:04 | history | edited | ognockocaten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 19:58 | history | edited | ognockocaten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 16, 2016 at 19:57 | comment | added | ognockocaten | Yeah, I'm pretty off here then. I'll just make some notes: You can use Edward R. Murrow in place of Walter Cronkite. The type of speaking really does come from radio, especially because they didn't have an established video presenting style yet. So you can say something like, "they sound like radio people." You can especially still hear this "style" persist in sports radio. See Gene Okerlund. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | DavidCAdams | The name you're looking for is Walter Winchell. "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell youtube.com/watch?v=0RS3MsxWFWY | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 19:16 | comment | added | vynsane | "Old time radio voice" would work only if the story was being narrated in our present referring to the past, but the sentence in the OP specifically is stated in the present tense for a story set in the past, therefore it would be, at best, the "contemporary radio voice". | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 17:00 | comment | added | Hot Licks | Except that Walter Cronkite's voice was nothing like the newsreel voice. | |
| Jun 16, 2016 at 15:52 | history | answered | ognockocaten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |