back-announce

present singular third person back-announces · participle present back-announcing · participle past back-announced · past back-announced

1. broadcastingTo briefly identify the music or story that has just aired.

   It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject.

   1978, Barrie Redfern, Local radio, page 78

   3 more examples

   You back-announce the music just played, making a few appropriate comments about the music or the performers.

   1991, Stuart Wallace Hyde, Television and radio announcing, page 335

   Two further examples will illustrate the functions of cue material – that is, to obtain the listener's interest, provide context, explain background noise, clarify technicalities and to 'back-announce'.

   2005, Robert McLeish, Radio Production, page 112

   Z100, the Top-40 station in freestyle epicenter New Yor City, would plug many holes in its playlists with freestyle tracks, usually neglecting to back-announce them so that to the non-clubgoer, the songs would only be identifiable by lyrics or synth sounds.

   2012, Maura Johnston, The Season Came To An End

plural back-announces

1. alternativeAlternative form of back announce.

   He also gave the time at three out of five back-announces.

   1987, Michael C. Keith, Radio Programming: Consultancy and Formatics, page 162

   2 more examples

   We had stopped at a coastal town to find a location to at least record an introduction and a back-announce for my story, when around 50 emergency vehicles went screaming past us.

   2011, Mike McRoberts, Beyond the Firing Line

   The back-announce told us we had just heard the Passacaglia.

   2014, Donald Vroon, Classical Music in a Changing Culture