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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(broadcasting) 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'.
Z100, the Top-40 station in freestyle epicenter New Yor City, would plug many holes in its playlists with freestyle tracks, usually neglecting to back-announce them so that to the non-clubgoer, the songs would only be identifiable by lyrics or synth sounds.
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.
Use back-announce when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Back-announce means (broadcasting) To briefly identify the music or story that has just aired..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It helps after long interviews, to back-announce the interviewee and the subject.
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