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In radio, talking over the start of a song and ending right when the lyrics kick in is called "hitting the post" and sometimes it's done without prewritten copy
by psvv 3y ago
In radio, talking over the start of a song and ending right when the lyrics kick in is called "hitting the post" and sometimes it's done without prewritten copy, just winging it.
It's just a skill you can practice and some people get quite good at it.
One difference with this is if you miss the lyrics, you can just try again next time. There's a new song every few minutes.
There was only ever one launch of Voyager 2.
- ta1243 3y agoSure, but if he missed it you'd have never known he'd have missed it. Get the timing wrong on Eurovision, despite having one every year, and 100 million+ people will know it.
- shoxidizer 3y ago> There was only ever one launch of Voyager 2. I get that it probably wasn't in the production schedule, but strictly speaking they could have come back a couple weeks later and done the shot with the voyager 1 launch.
- Crunchified 3y agoAt my college radio station, every applicable record had intro time cues written on a label on the record jacket. You would know that there was, say, seven seconds you could talk over before the song began in earnest. "Hitting the post" (not familiar with the term) was not really a problem for the deejays. p.s. - I loved being able to inject our call letters into the gap on 'Riders On the Storm', timed to the top or bottom of the hour.