lazynetjunkie 34 Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 It seems WFLD finally has a new voiceover to take over Scott Chapin who's retiring. All their new promos (both news and non-news) have a new female voiceover. However, I have no idea who it is. They have re-recorded previous promos with the new voiceover too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1367 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Jim Cutler now doing the promos and news opens for FOX 4 (KDFW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazynetjunkie 34 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 If WFLD was smart, they would have snagged WGN's recently dumped voiceovers Bob Tracy and/or Jim Cutler to use as their own. The psychological effect on people of hearing a familiar voice may actually snag a few WGN viewers over to WFLD.. WFLD did add an additional unknown male voiceover for sports promos.. I have no idea who it is either but as I said in the shoutbox a couple days ago, he sounds like a TVNT member or one of those "kids" on YouTube that play newscast from their basement/bedroom trying to imitate a voiceover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess 1110 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 If WFLD was smart, they would have snagged WGN's recently dumped voiceovers Bob Tracy and/or Jim Cutler to use as their own. The psychological effect on people of hearing a familiar voice may actually snag a few WGN viewers over to WFLD.. WFLD did add an additional unknown male voiceover for sports promos.. I have no idea who it is either but as I said in the shoutbox a couple days ago, he sounds like a TVNT member or one of those "kids" on YouTube that play newscast from their basement/bedroom trying to imitate a voiceover. I'm surprised they didn't switch to Greg O'Neil (FNC, WTXF) or Chris Corley (WNYW) since those seem to be favored by the O&Os... I guess I just still remember when just about every Fox O&O was using Chapin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazynetjunkie 34 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 I'm surprised they didn't switch to Greg O'Neil (FNC, WTXF) or Chris Corley (WNYW) since those seem to be favored by the O&Os... I guess I just still remember when just about every Fox O&O was using Chapin... That's what I was hoping for.. Either of those 2 would have worked well for WFLD. I still remember when just about every FOX O&O used Chapin too. I'm a little surprised with the standardization of everything else at FOX, they aren't doing the same with voiceovers. My guess is a "real" voiceover wasn't in WFLD's budget.. They couldn't even get Cedering Fox who is one of the more flexible voiceovers ($-wise) from what I heard. However, she still remains WBBM's secondary voiceover.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 823 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 That's what I was hoping for.. Either of those 2 would have worked well for WFLD. I still remember when just about every FOX O&O used Chapin too. I'm a little surprised with the standardization of everything else at FOX, they aren't doing the same with voiceovers. My guess is a "real" voiceover wasn't in WFLD's budget.. They couldn't even get Cedering Fox who is one of the more flexible voiceovers ($-wise) from what I heard. However, she still remains WBBM's secondary voiceover.. Since they're dead set on being "different" in all that they do these days, I'm not surprised they picked a woman as their main V/O announcer. Too bad they couldn't have selected someone with a more skillful voice. I could be wrong, but she sounds a little too 'lady of the night-ish' in the way she pronounces certain words, i.e...FOX Chicago. Again, I could be wrong, but that's what tone she seems to project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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