Silent spot

[w9wi]

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.....

[KPJL FM]

Can you dub 20Hz over the silent part? Might make the silent sensor happy, and not bother the client.

[TPT]

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.

[grich]

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.

[Nathaniel Steele]

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.....

[Deep Thought]

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.....

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.

[TPT]

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

[Bill DeFelice]

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

While not quite silent, one of my favorite funeral home spots:

Ferryman Funeral Home

[PID_Stop]

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

Gives a whole new meaning to "dead air"!

[NECRAT]

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.

[grich]

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.

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...

[RGORJANCE]

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.

Fossil

[awsherrill]

I worked for an AM station awhile back that had a sponsor for pattern change.

[NECRAT]

I worked for an AM station awhile back that had a sponsor for pattern change.

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.