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| A Brief Glossary of Radio Lingo: |
| Acoustics Ad-Libing Advertisting Agenicies Amplifier AM Amplify Amplitude Announcer Antenna Audition Tape Automation Equipment Band Call Letters Channel Commercials Commercial Copy Console |
| The Lingo |
| The clarity of sound in an area Talking without a script Agencies that handle and help place ads on radio and tv for clients for a fee Abilitiy to make sound louder or softer through an amplifier Amplitue Modulation To increase the amplitude of a wave The distance a wave rises or falls On air talent Wire or group of wries used in radio and television to send and receive waves Recording to send to a producer Allows radio station to operate automatically The range of radio waves length Letters of the alphabet used to identify a station |
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| Call Letters Channel Commercial Commercial Copy Console D.J. Dub Edit Electro- magnetic waves Feedback FM Format Frequency Headphones Hertz I.D. Interference Jingle Levels Kilohertz Megaherts Microphone Mixing Board |
| Letters of the alphabet used to identify a station The frequency a station is found at Paid advertissement 30-60 seconds long Written commercial copy The board Disk Jockey, the radio personality Make a copy/tape/recording of something Delete or add onto a recording that already exists A wave produced by a changing electric or magnetic field. i.e. x-rays, light waves and radio waves Annoying sound caused by amplifying speakers to microphone Frequency modulation Different genres of music a station chooses The amount of waves that pass a given point in a given amount of time Ear sets to hear what you are broacasting at all times A unit that measures wave frequency that equals one cycle per second Stations name and call letters, to be announced at the top of every hour Static heard from other frequencies, especially in AM Anthem used in commercial or promo announcement Volume that controls are set at Unit of measure equal to 1 million hertz One million cycles per second; used as radio frequency unit An instrument that converts sound waves into electrical signals an |
| Receiver Remote Resonate Sague Sound Spot Announcemnt Station Trasnmitter Tower Waves |
| Detects the signal and converts it back to sound Broadcasting from a location other than the station In the case of waves, to grow stronger Moving from one piece of music to another without introduction Vibration that can be detected by the human ear Less than one minute in length and read by one voice A broadcast facility Converts sound to a signal and send it The meta |
| The metal structure used to house the antenna at a high altitude Rhythmic disturbance that travels through space or matter |
| Controls all components, CD player, cpmouter, reel-to-reel, mic, etc. |
| broadcast transmitter |
| into electrical signals and feeds back into the |