back anno

noun

An announcement at the end of a broadcast item and relating back to that item.

Meanings

nounback anno (plural back annos)

plural back annos

  1. informalbroadcastingAn announcement at the end of a broadcast item and relating back to that item.

    The 'landing' is the back anno, which is the follow-up to the item, and which leads the listeners smoothly from the item and back into the rest of the programme ready for some more signposting, an ident or some music, perhaps, […]

    2013, Guy Starkey, Radio in Context, page 131
    1 more example

    Back annos may take a very simple form such as a name check of the last voice heard on the package and stations have been known to ban their use on the basis that anything in the radio text that looks back at what has been said is redundant communication.

    2002, Pete Wilby, The Radio Handbook, page 136

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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