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 the Transatlantic Accent from 1940s actors is a whole thing in the world of linguistics but I noticed a modern day equivalent is definitely what I’d call Sportcasters Voice. How every baseball announcer stresses weird syllables. How comedians can adopt it onstage and immediately the audience knows the impression. 

https://youtu.be/M_YO4lsGyW4?si=XZ3P9bi9SmWBlh-v 
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At least one guy seems to have made an online career out of having sportscaster voice without actually being a sportscaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_-ItwAA60U

It's closely related to newscaster voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOqpOpXRxU