I swear some of the traffic reports are recycled.
When you have to drive the motorways of Sydney you get to know what's happening and which stations have decent traffic info. I can guarantee you that 2SM has regularly played the traffic report from the previous day. When they do get the right day, their info is hours behind.
A few other quality features of this remarkable station (many that have been mention in this thread):
- Dead air. Just complete silence for extended periods. Some may say that's an improvement on what you hear from their announcers.
- Playing one thing over the top of another, such as playing an ad while the traffic report is on. Not for just a few seconds as you might get on a station with professional staff who are monitoring what's happening, but for 30 seconds or more. It's a complete head f*ck.
- News readers who have yet to learn how to read, or have any idea how to pronounce common English words. And the traffic reporter's pronunciation of street names borders on the ludicrous. A name like "Viscount St" for example, would be "Viss-count St" for sure. It's like word games, or trying to decipher a toddler's first attempts at speech.
- And, perhaps most baffling of all: sometimes they just start playing another station's broadcast. At least three times I have heard them start broadcasting 2DAY FM. How this could possibly happen, and the legal ramifications are just mind boggling.
