Date:         Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:57:21 -0500
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On the other hand, this..
> Often in a newscast consisting of a local news reader with some taped 
> inserts, it was necessary for the newsreader to give the control room 
> engineer the EXTRO words for the clip being played as a cue to roll a 
> commercial or another part of the show.

..is often called "out cue" or "out", written on a cue sheet or a tape box.

dl (who still swears he has never heard "outro" during a 30+ year radio career)

Graham Newton wrote:
> Barbara Need wrote:
> 
>>  From another listserv:
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26149/sound-studio-monbot%3a-bookend-audio 
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>>> [P]lugin adds an -intro_ and [an] _outro_ to an audio [file].
>>>
>>> I'm not hip enough to this stuff to know what an "outro" is.
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>>> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
> 
>  From my experience in radio broadcasting, it was always EXTRO used to 
> denote the final or EXITing portion of a show or segment.  It could be 
> music or an announcement or combination... whatever concluded out to 
> dead air!
> 
> Often in a newscast consisting of a local news reader with some taped 
> inserts, it was necessary for the newsreader to give the control room 
> engineer the EXTRO words for the clip being played as a cue to roll a 
> commercial or another part of the show.
> 
> I was in private broadcasting and never had anything to do with the CBC 
> (Canadian Broadcorping Castration as one wag called it!) except for 
> meeting the CBC Dominion Network's "Assignmentmentmentment" each evening
> which was carried by CFCF Montreal when I worked there.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ... Graham Newton
>