KBYU-FM'S MISPLACED POLICY OF HIRING STUDENTS AS CLASSICAL ANNOUNCERS

I despair over KBYU-FM's model of employing students from BYU to fill in on the weekends and while the three full-time announcers are on vacation.  It just doesn't work.

Why not?  Because KBYU's management seems incapable of training the students sufficiently or properly.

Take Michael Acey.  He undoubtedly is a nice human being, but his monotone is depressing.  Add to that his run-on sentences which produce a deadly effect on listeners' enjoyment of classical music.  Specifically, why doesn't general manager Marcus Smith tell Acey to pause after each period in a sentence?  Take his declaration of his name.  "This is Michael Acey."  Here there should be a definite pause before going on.  Instead Acey rushes on to the next sentence, and then the next one, and then on to the music.  Is there even one second of pause ("one mississippi")?

And how about Shaun O'Neill?  He apparently emulates Mark Wait with his non-classical-music banalities on Sunday mornings , say, about 6:20.  Clearly inappropriate and mistimed.  But no one at KBYU seems to have the desire to tell that to Shaun O'Neill so he can correct himself.

And how about Ben Waggener who insists on rudely ordering listeners to "stick around" to hear the next piece?  Here clearly Waggener has picked up this unfortunate annoying habit of speech from Mark Wait.  Where is Marcus Smith, general manager, on all of this inappropriate stuff?

No, KBYU's policy of paying students to be classical announcers on the weekends and at various other times clearly does not work, notwithstanding the savings in salaries so realized.

Marcus Smith, it's you bailiwick, so how about managing this mess?