back announce

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English

Noun

back announce (plural back announces)

  1. (broadcasting) A brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes; outro.
    • 1973, FM radio station operations handbook, page 140:
      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.
    • 1986, Michael C. Keith, Joseph M. Krause, The Radio Station, page 243:
      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.
    • 2010, Elisabeth Soep, Lissa Soep, Vivian Chavez, Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, page 135:
      But the intro was easy compared to the back announce.

Verb

back announce (third-person singular simple present back announces, present participle back announcing, simple past and past participle back announced)

  1. Alternative form of back-announce
    • 1980, David See, How to be a disc jockey, page 76:
      On the outro back announce the artist and year (also highest chart position if desired)
    • 1997, Jazz Journal International, page 10:
      Unlike nowadays when you hear things on the radio and they never back announce, you don't know who it was half the time.
    • 2006, Jim Beaman, Programme Making for Radio, page 79:
      Have a go yourself: choose a favourite piece of music and think of six different ways you could introduce and back announce it.
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