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Best Radio Voice
Fred Buc, Radio Lightning
Most on-air voices these days are loud and obnoxious, assaulting our ears with lame jokes and sexual innuendo only a junior high schooler would enjoy. That's why Lightning 100's Fred Buc wonderfully bucks the trend. With his conversational calm and steady tongue, Buc skips all the nonsense, studio sound effects and self-aggrandizing lip and just...well, talks to us. As host of the Saturday-morning staple Retro Lightning, he draws attention to himself only with what he's saying, not how he's saying it—and when he rattles off the top TV shows of 1978, listeners amazingly feel like they've learned something. When was the last time you felt that way after listening to Bob & Tom? VINCENT TROIA
