back-announce

Definitions

1. 1

   To briefly identify the music or story that has just aired.

   • It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject.
   • You back-announce the music just played, making a few appropriate comments about the music or the performers.
   • 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'.
2. 2

   Alternative form of back announce.

   • He also gave the time at three out of five back-announces.
   • 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.
   • The back-announce told us we had just heard the Passacaglia.

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