Starter of this subject: Brandon
Last post in this subject: 4/13/2002
Messages in this subject: 4
| Brandon | 4/13/2002 4 replies |
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Hi. Another old radio newbie question, if it's okay. Sometimes in catalogs and on sites I see in a program description something like "opening upcut." What does it mean for the opening of an old radio program to be "upcut"?
Thanks |
| Elizabeth McLeod | 4/13/2002 3 replies |
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Properly used, this means "the opening was partially clipped from the original transcription" -- in other words, "---L-L-O! The Jell-O Program!"
The term is sometimes used, less accurately, to mean "Someone messed up the tape dub and cut the beginning off by not accounting for blank leader at the beginning." In either case, though, it means the first few seconds are missing from the program. |
| Janet | 4/14/2002 2 replies |
| If "upcut" was used to describe the clipped opening of a program, was their also a term used to acknowledge a clipped ending? Thanks for the information. . . very interesting. Janet |
| Joe Oliver | 4/14/2002 1 replies |
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>>>...was their also a term used to acknowledge a clipped ending?
Yes, Janet. And from my radio days I recall it as being "downcut." Example, as best I can recall: (ABC closed-circuit)...attention Western time zone affiliates, the Paul Harvey feed this hour was downcut by three minutes. It will be re-fed at...." Joe |
| Brandon | 4/17/2002 0 replies |
| Okay, so the term is "upcut" if the first few secon |