I'd always wanted to say, "This just in...," on the radio to indicate the down-to-the-wire immediacy of a late sports score just becoming available. Luckily, I got that chance once during basketball season when I was doing a live report from home and a co-worker was updating the sports tickers from the office. I started printing the second batch of scores while reading the first batch. In the nick of time, I was able to say, "This just in...," while ripping a piece of paper out of the printer.
To the uninitiated, however, the loud, abrupt sound of tearing the paper must have sounded like I'd inexplicably summoned superhuman strength and knocked over a car battery.
I was going for more of a teletype sound effect, but during a live report, you take what you can get.
