back announce

noun

Definitions

  1. A brief statement or synopsis identifying a piece of music or story when it completes

    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.
    • 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.
    • But the intro was easy compared to the back announce.
  2. Alternative form of back-announce.

    • On the outro back announce the artist and year (also highest chart position if desired)
    • Unlike nowadays when you hear things on the radio and they never back announce, you don't know who it was half the time.
    • 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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No curated loop yet for back announce. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA