Silent spot
Silent spot
Yep, they're at it again... Someone has produced a spot with ~20sec. of silence at the head.
I see why they did it -- it makes artistic sense in context -- but I'm tired of these emails from the silence sensor.....
I see why they did it -- it makes artistic sense in context -- but I'm tired of these emails from the silence sensor.....
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View, TN EM66
Re: Silent spot
Can you dub 20Hz over the silent part? Might make the silent sensor happy, and not bother the client.
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The worst ones were those with black in the first few seconds of the spot....but that's back in the day when I actually did the switching & everything was either video tape or film chain.
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Several times a year, one of our beloved car dealers runs a 30-second silent spot, with white text on a black background.
Our traffic folks are nice enough to give us a heads-up when that flight is about to start. Helps lessen, but not completely relieves cardiac stress.
Our traffic folks are nice enough to give us a heads-up when that flight is about to start. Helps lessen, but not completely relieves cardiac stress.

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Glad I"m in Radio.......
Though I suppose if a client wanted to buy 30-60 seconds of silence, we'd probably sell it to them.....
Though I suppose if a client wanted to buy 30-60 seconds of silence, we'd probably sell it to them.....
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I have a client who bought 60 minutes of "silence" in the middle of the night on a distant high-power co-channel station so we could take some field measurements at night.Nathaniel Steele wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 2:40 pmGlad I"m in Radio.......
Though I suppose if a client wanted to buy 30-60 seconds of silence, we'd probably sell it to them.....

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Years ago local daytime AM sold sign-off to a funeral home:
"The following hours of silence brought to you by Leavitt's Funeral Home"
Click
Hisssssssssssssssssss
"The following hours of silence brought to you by Leavitt's Funeral Home"
Click
Hisssssssssssssssssss
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Re: Silent spot
Or the Hollywood Exchange spot, that aired on NBC Network. Started out with bars and tone.
That was a fun one when it aired, and because it was on network, we got no local indication it was going to air.
That was a fun one when it aired, and because it was on network, we got no local indication it was going to air.
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I missed out on that one. If I had been on duty, I can imagine the swearing under my breath as I trotted back to master control...
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I seem to remember that a radio station in Tulsa had either the sign-off sponsored by Cain's Coffee, or maybe the silence afterwards. Always got a chuckle out of it. This was in the dark ages of the 50's.
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I worked for an AM station awhile back that had a sponsor for pattern change.
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I had heard a story, not sure if it was just internet fodder or true, of an oil company that sponsored a pattern change. Would list towns they serve in the day pattern, then it would switch, and continue to list towns served in the night pattern.awsherrill wrote: ↑Tue May 08, 2018 8:40 amI worked for an AM station awhile back that had a sponsor for pattern change.
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