I hear that during most football games I listen to on the radio. Even some high school games
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Obsolete Terms Still Used on Radio & TV: Name One!
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Speaking of obsolete terms (maybe this should go in the DX forum) shortwave radios used to have something called "bandspread."
That feature is still present on SDRs. It's called "zoom in."
And there are still a few people (old-timers!) who still insist on saying "h-t-t-p, colon, double slash...."
I believe they also never said the current temperature was 77 -- they always rounded it down to 76 or up to 78 degrees, to avoid giving free promotion to 77 WABC.
Not obsolete. My phone service is expensive enough and I got the cost reduced. There must be a way they do it.
They left out the s.
The radio I take on vacation and the one I used for 30 plus years have the lowest frequencies on top and the highest on the bottom.
Yes, but "https" wasn't around in the early days of the internet.
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What about material we recorded on location, instead of a studio? These inserts were once known as an actuality, but is now commonly termed a soundbite.
The term "footage" dates back to when motion picture film was measured in feet.
And many old AM sets... very old ones for sure... had a "fine tuning" knob.
One pet peeve of mine is announcers that say " X minutes till the top of the X o'clock hour". These guys are local! I get the national Satellite fees, but small market folks not close to a time zone line should give the time.
And that reminds me of the old AM dials that had a "Civil Defense" indicator. (Actually, there were two of them.) One at 640 Khz and the other at 1240 Khz. They consisted of a black circle, inside of which was a triangle with the letters "CD".
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So just before 6, are they saying "five minutes till the top of the 6 o'clock hour" or just "five minutes till the top of the hour"? If the former, then they're just being wordy but it's clear that the time being referenced is 5:55. If the latter, that's another story. I've never heard that on a station using local talent.
The "CD" stood for CONELRAD, not Civil Defense. CONELRAD: CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation
CONELRAD EAS EBS: U.S. Emergency Radio Systems
CONELRAD EAS EBS: U.S. Emergency Radio Systems
www.worldradiohistory.com
The CD in a triangle was the logo of Civil Defense:
Civil defense in the United States - Wikipedia
I would say 5 till 6. If I was running a little "early" for network News and only had 4 and half minute song , I would say "if you need to be at work at 6 you have five minutes to get there hopefully the boss is late too. Or a brief weather forecast. Just depended on how bad my hangover was. Just kidding about the handover, but there were mornings that I woke up feeling like I had a hangover. Two extra cups of coffee would get me through it.
I have heard the wordy time used at small southern Appalachian stations.
When Bill Drake insisted on the digital time-check at KHJ in 1965, it actually made the station stand out. Few were doing it. I think the next format to adopt it wholesale was all-news, (both KFWB and KNX) in 1968.
At some point, those under a certain age stopped saying " 'oh clock " and just say, "It's 10" and not "it's ten o'clock".
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