Ad-libbing – Words, music, or actions uttered, performed, or carried out extemporaneously in one’s own words, without a give script. When used effectively, the use of an actuality adds to the It also distinguishes a wrap from a voicer. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Sitemap. © 2020 Radio Connection®. Actuality – A term historically used in broadcasting that is now referred to as a sound byte. Announcer – An on-air talent personality who is the person with the job to read scripts or announcements on radio or television. ADAT – Audio Digital Tape, used in digital systems. A.A.A.A. Automatic Equipment – Equipment that enables a radio or TV station to operate automatically. Average air shifts are four hours but could be up to six hours long. ASCAP – The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, an organization. Analog – A type of waveform signal with characteristics that are continuous as opposed to pulsed, containing data or information such as voice, data or image. Agencies often handle overall branding and marketing. A.M. – The amplitude modulation, A.M. broadcasting signals, considered the standard radio band; meaning the amplitude of a carrier wave which is varied according to certain characteristics of a modulating signal. It is the storage or transmission of information by a variable physical means, such as a shift in voltage sent through the electromagnetic spectrum or the vibrations of against patterns inside the grooves of a vinyl disc, to create physical (analogous) patterns of pictures or sounds. When using actualities (sound bites), follow broadcast news writing rules. It popularized the repertoire of music that is currently associated with classic rock. A mixer can mix analog or digital signals depending on the type of mixer. Arbitron also refers to the company’s Arbitron radio market survey and report that is published four times per year. clockschedule of a broadcast hour, with precise time in minutes and seconds allotted for the various programming segments; for example, a clock might begin "00:00-01:30 -- news," "01:30-02:30 -- spots," and so forth; often represented as a pie chart resembling an analog clock, cuttape containing the recording of a voicer, wrap, actuality or nat sound; networks feed cuts to affiliates via satellite, hourlynetwork newscast beginning at the top of the hour; the cast generally contains a commercial break at two and a half or three minutes past the hour and resumes a minute or a minute and a half later; most hourlies conclude at five minutes past the hour, IQ"in cue" -- the first words recorded on a cut, leadfirst sentence of a news story, which should concisely reveal the story's basic events and provide an introduction to the details given in the rest of the story, live shotreport introduced by an anchor that has not been recorded but is read live by another journalist, often at a news scene, lockoutfinal words of a report spoken by a journalist in which the journalist's name and station call letters or frequency are given, such as "Corrie Carpenter, 990 News"; often a location is given as well: "In Middleville, Corrie Carpenter, 990 News", MOSabbreviation for "Man On the Street" interviews; that is, interviews of passers-by chosen at random in a public place and asked their opinions of events or people in the news, nat or natural or raw sound"raw sound" is recorded sound that is not of a newsmaker speaking, such as the sound of an airplane landing or a marching band playing or a crowd cheering; sometimes known as "natural sound" or "nat sound," especially when the source of the sound is from nature, such as frogs croaking or geese honking, OQ"out cue" -- the last words recorded on a cut, readerscript of a news story in which no actualities are to be played; this script is read live on the air by the anchor; the recording of a reader by a reporter is called a "voicer", scriptwritten-out version of a news story, the text of which is read on the air; a newscast is made up of a collection of scripts read by an anchor, slugtitle of a script; used for reference purposes; wire-service stories are each given one, sounderrecorded tune used to introduce segments of the broadcast, such as at the beginning of a traffic report or sports; the networks use sounders at the beginning of the hourlies, teasebrief phrase spoken by the anchor immediately before playing a spot or going to traffic (or some other interruption of the newscast) to tell the listener about a story coming up later; the tease should intrigue the listener without either misrepresenting the story or revealing it entirely, voicerrecorded report containing only the journalist's voice -- there is no actuality; can be understood as a recorded reader, wraprecorded report in which a journalist's voice occurs at the beginning and end, and an actuality is played in between; the report is "wrapped around" the actuality, zingerunusual and generally humorous feature story often placed at the end of a newscast.