Recorded Announcements
The R142 and R142As were the first cars to feature recorded announcements. An announcement for a station and the next stop comes in the configuration of station name, subway line transfers, connections to other forms of transportation, and if the station has a bus connection to LaGuardia Airport or John F. Kennedy International Airport. After the doors open, the announcements tell the destination, line, local or express service, and next stop. The door warning is then played and the doors close with the standard tones.
The recorded announcements are by:
- Jessica Ettinger-Gottesman, 1010 WINS Anchor: Announcements on Lexington Avenue Line (4)(5)(6) trains
- Melissa Kliner: original announcements on the 4 and 5 outside of Manhattan; these have since been re-recorded by Ettinger-Gottesman
- Diane Thompson: announcements on the 2 train.
- Charlie Pellett: "Stand clear of the closing doors, please" and various public announcements, such as safety announcements, announcements about a delay, and on the IRT trains, transfer announcements at most stations. The female announcers' voices are utilized for transfer announcements on the R143 and R160 cars.
Announcements are sometimes spliced together with one another when changes to service warrant.
These people were news anchors with Bloomberg Radio at the time the announcements were recorded. Since then, Ettinger-Gottesman and Pellett are now at 1010 WINS-AM and Sirius Satellite Radio working with Howard Stern and his Howard 100 news team.
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