Radio Presenters with speech impediments

thejuggler

Is it common? Should a speech impediment prevent you from becoming a broadcaster? Depends on the nature and severity I suppose? Regional dialect/accents play a part in what is deemed acceptable/normal.
I can think of one presenter who cannot pronounce his THs. So when he is calling out phone numbers for example it’s pronounced tree and turty tree.

Nails on a blackboard to my ears but maybe that’s just me!

Deregos.

Jonathan Woss spwings to mind.

z80CPU

Radio 1 presenter ? Former journo ??

thejuggler

nope not RTE - local radio and national - never heard his slot on national radio though.

endofrainbow

Regional accents/dialects are hardly a speech impediment.

TinyMuffin

Bobby Kerr.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122538757#Comment_122538757

His show is painful to listen to. He is not well suited to radio.

Bellbottoms

I belive George Hook has a slight speech inpediment. Or so a speech thearpist I used to date claimed. He wasn't quite at the Bobby Kerrs level. But he was difficult to listen to and understand. He was also a dinosaur, which didn't help either.

I am pretty sure if he was on radio now. He would be sh1tting the bed over "wokeism" and being "transgender".

Jim_Hodge

Since when did a regional accent become a speech impediment? I agree that some accents can be hard to listen to for some others elsewhere in the country, but that could almost be said for any accent. Not everybody enjoys the lilt of a Cork accent or the drone of a Dublin accent either but give me a genuine accent over a fake 'radio' voice any day.

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122538922#Comment_122538922

is his voice a result of his cancer treatment?

alan partridge aha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122538931#Comment_122538931

I liked him, shot from the hip, and he called one of he's reporters out for using unnecessary language.

Jakey Rolling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539650#Comment_122539650

Yes, he had head/neck cancer

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539694#Comment_122539694

Poor man. I am not trying to be disrespectul. But he just has the wrong voice for radio.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539658#Comment_122539658

He was a sexist bigot. With no journalistic integrity. His show was basically just outrage and hyperbole.

mountain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539897#Comment_122539897

he would fit in nicely on RTE 1.45 to 3pm

Bobson Dugnutt

You’d have to wonder if Callan would have gotten a radio show if he had a proper Monaghan accent? He must have dropped it by the time the bus got to Dublin. Funnily enough, his best impression is of a slightly self-satisfied South Dublin native.

mykrodot

Ciara Kelly from Newstalk "I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I,"

alan partridge aha

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539897#Comment_122539897

I liked him, he was a breath of fresh air compared to all the other plastic presenters

Declan A Walsh

Many of the posters have strayed away from the original premise of this thread, i.e. radio presenters with speech impediments.

There are other threads already covering other aspects of how presenters speak.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058013888/poor-diction-by-radio-presenters

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2056395550/annoying-traits-of-radio-presenters

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122539943#Comment_122539943

Or the boards radio thread.

StreetLight

Sean Ah Eh Ah Em Cos But Eh Moncrieff.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541203#Comment_122541203

It's becoming patently obvious that many people don't know what a speech impediment is.

StreetLight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541208#Comment_122541208

How high-brow.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541213#Comment_122541213

Not at all. Just factual.

StreetLight

Also factual is Sean's type of speech pattern, which is a recognised form of impediment.

Bobby Kerr does not have a speech impediment. His condition may cause his voice to sound unusual to others, but he has no problem talking about the points he wants to make.

On the other hand, Sean Moncrieff's condition is called cluttering, a type of impediment which causes him to inject ooh/aah/eh into his talking. Listen to him asking a question. He will start off the sentence, followed by the cluttering and end up taking the question into another direction.

It's patently obvious some people here can't tell the difference.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122540274#Comment_122540274

His show was basically the audio equivilant of the old man shouts at cloud meme. Do you like his protege Ciara Kelly. She is a continuation of thet style of presenting.

Firblog

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365928/radio-presenters-with-speech-impediments

Nope not just you, its fecking ridiculous how people who won't pronounce th can be hired as radio presenters, they really have voices for the newspapers

Ted222

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541208#Comment_122541208

In fairness, the opening post characterised speech impediments as to include regional dialects so people are just responding to that.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541926#Comment_122541926

And the OP was way off the mark equating accents with speech impediments.

TheRiverman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122538922#Comment_122538922

Bobby Kerr had treatment for cancer of the neck or throat which affected his voice.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122542019#Comment_122542019

I understand that, and I am very happy that he had made a full recovery. But he is ill suited to radio.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365928/radio-presenters-with-speech-impediments

Hiberno-English.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YvEiWhlvF8k

PixelCrafter

Elocution lessons, prim and proper presenters and erasure of regional accents is something that's really best left in the 1950s. You can speak clearly on air, and still have a regional accent and tbh everyone has a regional accent to someone else's ears.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122542317#Comment_122542317

Agree. I've every sympathy but when Bobby chimes in I got to turn the radio off, just grates on me. Not terribly interested in the back-patting roundabout of Irish business types anyhow esp Pat McDonagh, heading for beatification on business media slots.

gluppers

Dan Hegarty and Jenny Greene on 2fm nights seem to have an affecting an accent impediment

California Dreamer

Things must be really slow in the radio world if this topic needed to be discussed!

Baseball72

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122538931#Comment_122538931

can’t say I noticed. I thought he was avery good on the Hard Shoulder.

squonk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122560571#Comment_122560571

I never thought George Hook had an impediment. He just sounded IMHO like any old rugby arsehole you’d hear boring the shîte out if everyone in a pub.

youdoyou

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365928/radio-presenters-with-speech-impediments

Cathal Minogue?

Quantum Erasure

I'm going to quote a postof mine verbatim from last year:

not to drag the thread off topic... but i will

Its like that continuity announcer they have on RTE 2 with a bit of a speech impediment, hired for inclusion and diversity. He was on duty the day the queen died, but I noticed they got someone else to actually announce the death and go to live coverage...

Brian Scan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122561140#Comment_122561140

"He just sounded IMHO like any old rugby arsehole you’d hear boring the shîte out if everyone in a pub."

Or like those of us who post regularly in the boards.ie radio thread

thejuggler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122564567#Comment_122564567

Yes it was him I was thinking of.