Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
back announce en · NOUN
Meanings
-
A brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro.
A tertiary tone on the theme cart directly fires a sub-source cart loaded with a daily synchronized voice track, running the back announce over the theme.
1973, FM radio station operations handbook, page 140:But the intro was easy compared to the back announce.
2010, Elisabeth Soep, Lissa Soep, Vivian Chavez, Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, page 135:Often, there are no front or back announces on the AM either, so if the listener didn't know who did the song, we aren't about to tell them.
1986, Michael C. Keith, Joseph M. Krause, The Radio Station, page 243:
Forms
back announce en · VERB
Meanings
-
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of back-announce.
Have a go yourself: choose a favourite piece of music and think of six different ways you could introduce and back announce it.
2006, Jim Beaman, Programme Making for Radio, page 79:Unlike nowadays when you hear things on the radio and they never back announce, you don't know who it was half the time.
1997, Jazz Journal International, page 10:On the outro back announce the artist and year (also highest chart position if desired)
1980, David See, How to be a disc jockey, page 76:
Forms