Obsolete Terms Still Used on Radio & TV: Name One!

[michael hagerty]

What about saying, "I'll give you a ring," when you're going to call someone? Since many people don't use the actual ringing sound on their phones anymore, what do you say, "I'll give you a whatever song or tone you've downloaded and paired with my name?"

Yeah, but they’re called ringtones.

 

[radiofan2023]

"Live to tape"

 

[CTListener]

I'd heard that used on University of Tennessee football as well.

And on hockey broadcasts. If it's a team without a network of stations, it gives the announcer another opportunity to promote the stand-alone station carrying the games. Chuck Kaiton, the voice of the Hartford Whalers, used to tell his listeners that the Whalers were "skating from left to right across your WTIC radio dial."

 

[Kelly A]

Old phrases die hard. We still call interviews recorded in advance "pre-tapes" when talking to each other in the newsroom. The TV term VO/SOT literally stands for "Voice-Over/Sound on Tape".

Or all graphics are called "Chyron". One of the Millenial producers where I used to work wrote me about a month after I started asking where our Chyron's all had the latest software versions. My response was that we didn't have any Chyron brand graphics systems, so not sure what he was asking.

 

[Don CT]

Or all graphics are called "Chyron". One of the Millenial producers where I used to work wrote me about a month after I started asking where our Chyron's all had the latest software versions. My response was that we didn't have any Chyron brand graphics systems, so not sure what he was asking.

Any lower third is called a Chyron it seems.

 

[kfbkfb]

Might qualify for this thread:

"Videotaping with a Smartphone"

(it's quite an engineering feat to squeeze an entire videotape mechanism into the thin small smartphone box)


Kirk Bayne

 

[tvnut]

Chick Hearn, who did play-by-play for the Lakers for 41 years, is credited, rightly or wrongly, with that phrase.

It goes back at least as far as the 1930s, when Kern Tips started broadcasting Southwest Conference football for Humble Oil on a bunch of stations in Texas.

 

[Negin]

I think the terms “film” and “video” are still used even when that isn’t the physical media used to record or capture an image.

Some people that play MMORPGs will sometimes say when see a cheater - "I'm going to film that and send it to the GM."

 

[kevtronics]

"Videotaping with a Smartphone"

(it's quite an engineering feat to squeeze an entire videotape mechanism into the thin small smartphone box)

Sony came pretty close in 2001 when they invented MicroMV, the world's smallest videotape format. It fits an hour of DVD-quality video onto a tape the same size as an audio microcassette, using a pocket-sized camcorder:

 

[michael hagerty]

Any lower third is called a Chyron it seems.

Kleenex. Xerox. Chryon.

 

[AMRadioGuy]

"Top" & "Bottom" of the hour... back when stations had analog clocks with a top and bottom. Now most stations don't even have someone in the studio to read the doggone clock let alone have a clock with a top and bottom...

 

[CTListener]

Kleenex. Xerox. Chryon.

"Coke" for any cola. "Frisbee" for any flying disc toy. "Zipper" used to be a trademark, but the owners of it let it become a generic. And in my father's day, people used to say "Frigidaire" for any refrigerator, but that's disappeared.

 

[Deleted member 108832]

in my father's day, people used to say "Frigidaire" for any refrigerator, but that's disappeared.

Huh. Must be a regional thing. The old guard down here called a refrigerator an "ice box".

 

[vchimpanzee]

What about saying, "I'll give you a ring," when you're going to call someone? Since many people don't use the actual ringing sound on their phones anymore, what do you say, "I'll give you a whatever song or tone you've downloaded and paired with my name?"

Ironically, we now hear the sound that my phone makes more often than just a few years ago because on cell phones it is a popular ringtone.

 

[gr8oldies]

Ironically, we now hear the sound that my phone makes more often than just a few years ago because on cell phones it is a popular ringtone.

From what I understand, no one under 50 uses a ringtone, it's vibrate only/

 

[MichaelD1972]

"On your radio dial"...since most tuners are now digital displays.

Even today's "analog" displays are actually digital tuners using DSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology. A key features of those radios is mute on tuning. The XHDATA D-219 is a perfect example of it.

 

[kfbkfb]

Sony came pretty close in 2001 when they invented MicroMV, the world's smallest videotape format. It fits an hour of DVD-quality video onto a tape the same size as an audio microcassette, using a pocket-sized camcorder:

IIRC, Video Review mag had a news item (in the early 1990s) about a very very small Sony cassette tape system, the cassette was about the size of 2 pennies side by side...anyway...


Kirk Bayne

 

[KeithE4]

From what I understand, no one under 50 uses a ringtone, it's vibrate only/

I'm pushing 70, and I use ringtones. I never use vibrate-only. Ever. It's either full sound or totally silent.

And, other than people I give unique musical ringtones to, my phone rings for everyone else. Since they're all music files anyway, who cares? Use what you like.

 

[KeithE4]

Huh. Must be a regional thing. The old guard down here called a refrigerator an "ice box".

"Ice box" was what my grandparents (born between 1892 and 1907) called it, even after electric refrigerators became standard in the 1930s. My folks called it a Fridge, and I still do as well.

 

[Oldie919]

As long as Apple provides it....or it's available as an add-on app.... I'll continue to use the "Old Phone" or "Classic Phone"
RING (!!!!) TONE on my mobile device.....For me, it's easy to hear, and distinguish when in a crowd of phone users.....
"Excuse me....my phone is ....RINGING!!! Not belching, pharting, swearing, vomiting, etc.!!!