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MusicMan11

gotta love voicetracking the weekends, driving around this morning i heard a Q105 jock make reference to 'Tonight's Aerosmith/ZZ top show at the ford amp........that show was cancelled on Friday......oooppppppsss.......

not that anyone - except probably me - was listening anyhow.
 
MusicMan11 said:
gotta love voicetracking the weekends, driving around this morning i heard a Q105 jock make reference to 'Tonight's Aerosmith/ZZ top show at the ford amp........that show was cancelled on Friday......oooppppppsss.......

not that anyone - except probably me - was listening anyhow.
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I'm pretty sure that the only people who listen to radio anymore can be found on this board.
 
Just after midnight on Saturday (actually Sunday morning) there was a jock on The Point. Anyone know if it is live? Guy did attempt to relate, however, mentioned something about traffic on this Saturday morning, where in reality it was early Sunday morning. Also mentioned to be careful driving as it is raining. The roads were dry as a bone during my travels, however, in all fairness, it may have been storming somewhere in the Bay area.
 
90 perc. of the jocks on the weekends voicetrack if its a weekday personality. I know of a guy at XTB who will voice track his show for Sundays during football season, then on Monday he's talking about the game he went to...

It's just a way to save a few bucks - and it can either work really well for ya, or make your station and PDs' look like a dunce...

-Woj
 
Ferreri said:
Just after midnight on Saturday (actually Sunday morning) there was a jock on The Point. Anyone know if it is live? Guy did attempt to relate, however, mentioned something about traffic on this Saturday morning, where in reality it was early Sunday morning. Also mentioned to be careful driving as it is raining. The roads were dry as a bone during my travels, however, in all fairness, it may have been storming somewhere in the Bay area.
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Actually Frank they could have well been live. There was a thunderstorm that did develop over the Bay and there was rain on the Howard Frankland down to around Gandy Blvd as well as the Courtney Campbell Causeway and Bayside Bridge and this was around
midnight Sat night/Sun Morning. Maybe they were recording their voice tracks at that time.
 
As a jock I kinda like voice tracking. The station I worked for used to allow us 3 hours to voice a 5 hour shift. I could do everything in about an hour. When the PD left we were told if it takes an hour that's what we pay you for, an hour. Not really worth coming in for that.

As a listener I think it's a con. You basically give the listener the idea you're live. Some stations even use the predicted temps for that hour which can be way off. Radio works best when it's live and local. On the music stations talk outside of mornings has been restricted so much it hardly matters.

In the old days they were required to say a show was "transcribed". They could probably say that today and people wouldn't know what it meant anyway.
 
I think it sucks. Give my the old days of 7 live airshifts a day like 93KHJ or high profile guys like J-im Stagg!
 
Mike Sheridan said:
In the old days they were required to say a show was "transcribed". They could probably say that today and people wouldn't know what it meant anyway.
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That was back in the day when the music was live as well. What changed everything was when the live musicians were fired and replaced by records. You think things are canned now?

Even the cable news channels run long periods at night when they're pre-recorded. Is Letterman live? Get used to it folks. This is all nothing new.
 
That was back in the day when the music was live as well. What changed everything was when the live musicians were fired and replaced by records. You think things are canned now?

Even the cable news channels run long periods at night when they're pre-recorded. Is Letterman live? Get used to it folks. This is all nothing new.
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Not only long periods at night. I've seen periods during the weekday when Bay News 9 repeats an hour or two at a time. Not as often, because of breaking news, but it doesn't just happen at night or on the weekends.
 
I believe ESPN runs an edition of "SportsCenter" four or five times in a row... Also, I could be wrong, but I think even ESPNews re-airs the same half-hour overnight.
 
My heroes on MSNBC like Keith, Rachel, and Chris are repeated over and over on overnights. But I thought that was because of time zones. A news show that is canned at 2AM is on 11PM in San Francisco. That is clever to figure that out. ;D There was a sports channel out of DC that repeated the Orielos games in entirety overnight.
 
I mispelled the name of the Baltimore baseball team. Better correct myself before NaughtyTalker sends me to the chalk board.
 
Those are my MSNBC heroes as well but I caution you to quit talking about non-Tampa subjects on this board otherwise they'll get all over your case again. There must or should be a board somewhere for interesting comments like yours that do not pertain to a specific market. Let me know if you find one because I'll go there to read them.
 
I GUESS THE TV BOARDS OR A CABLE BOARD. BUT THANKS FOR THE ADVICE. I'LL TAKE IT OUTSIDE OR SOMETHING. AS FOR TAMPA TOPICS, AS LONG AS ALL OF THE MUSIC FORMATTED STATIONS ARE STAYING AS THEY ARE, I HAVE NOT MUCH TO SAY. AS SOON AS CBS RUMORS START ABOUT A FLIP, I'LL WAKE UP. I DON'T LISTEN TO TALK RADIO, SPORTS RADIO, OR STATIONS THAT PROMOTE AS "ROCK". I GENERALLY TRY TO STAY OUT OF THAT AS I ADMIT I WOULD BE POSTING AS AN UNEDUCATED FOOL. OF COURSE "NAUGHTYTALKER" WOULD AGREE THAT ALL MY POSTS FALL UNDER THAT UMBRELLA. NOW I WILL GO TO MY ROOM AND PUT ON A TRANSCRIPTION OF WHEN "NAUGHTYTALKER" WAS STARTING HIS CAREER AS NIGHT NEWS GUY AT KXEL-----THE MIGHTY 1540-----IN WATERLOO IOWA." IT ALL STARTED AT A 50,000 WATT RADIO STATION IN IOWA"
 
Well, if we're going to get our fingers snacked with a ruler for talking abour MSNBC, that could apply to John Tesh on Mix, the mid day (canned) chick on FUS, Glenn Beck on FLA, etc. They may be on local sticks, but as a Tampa Bay resident, I also listen to web stations, from who knows where.

Referencing MSNBC should not be a violation.
 
Mike Sheridan said:
As a jock I kinda like voice tracking. The station I worked for used to allow us 3 hours to voice a 5 hour shift. I could do everything in about an hour. When the PD left we were told if it takes an hour that's what we pay you for, an hour. Not really worth coming in for that.

As a listener I think it's a con. You basically give the listener the idea you're live. Some stations even use the predicted temps for that hour which can be way off. Radio works best when it's live and local. On the music stations talk outside of mornings has been restricted so much it hardly matters.

In the old days they were required to say a show was "transcribed". They could probably say that today and people wouldn't know what it meant anyway.
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I'm usually at the station at night, voice tracking my show in the early part of when the show airs... This has allowed me to 'update' voice tracks as needed, sometimes mentioning weather or current events.

Back in 2001, there was a large fire near the TV station where I worked days. I was able to make it to the radio station to re-voice my first liner (to talk about the fire and related traffic conditions) just before it aired a couple minutes after 6:00pm. I was back in the car and on my way home as the liner aired.

The next week a woman who knows me said she was listening to me talking about the fire on the air- as she was seeing me driving home in the lane next to her!
 
Ferreri said:
Just after midnight on Saturday (actually Sunday morning) there was a jock on The Point. Anyone know if it is live? Guy did attempt to relate, however, mentioned something about traffic on this Saturday morning, where in reality it was early Sunday morning. Also mentioned to be careful driving as it is raining. The roads were dry as a bone during my travels, however, in all fairness, it may have been storming somewhere in the Bay area.
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I noticed this several months ago. The Point had an overnight guy who did not sound like college radio. He even handed off to Joe Elliott or Dick Reigns or whoever at 5:30 AM. Never heard it again, but it sure sounded like Eighties Top 40 did sound back in the Eighties.
 
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