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Old 01-24-2012, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by eweissenbach View Post
You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
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OK, I'm impressed.

Not only did this peg me (raised in Missouri, lived many years in Southern Illinois), but I also worked on-air in radio for some years with a smattering of television (didn't do well on TV; lights hurt my eyes).
Well, fwiw my last company, Principal Financial, used me as narrator for marketing messages and slide shows for producers and consumers.
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