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Radiokenny's advice is gold-dust, thanks for the insight into US radio, and I'm curious about the word 'break' for links. In the UK a break is a commercial break, and a break is a link (the live spoken bits that destroy your beautiful music format )

You are correct. I do hear people say " I'm gonna take a commercial break" But It seems that in different regions of the U.S. ...some people refer to an announcer talking as a "break" and others say it's a "stopset".

 I think that the terminology that is used most of the time a "break" is when an announcer speaks and a stopset consists of the commercial portion only. Does that make sense?  

When I said it should contain "breaks" I meant for him to have samples of him announcing without the commercials.

Radiokenny,

I believe you are correct. A break refers to just a speaking part and a stopset is with commercials. At least the stations I worked at that's how they were referred to. Great stuff for sure! I found out that the person that got the job I wanted had quite a bit of major market experience. So it was only natural for them to get him instead of me. Maybe next time though!

I think that the terminology that is used most of the time a "break" is when an announcer speaks and a stopset consists of the commercial portion only. Does that make sense?  

Absolutely. I've even heard the link being referred to as a segue by Americans, now a segue in the UK is when you go from one record into another without anything inbetween. You even call the mixer a table, now in the UK a table is where you sit down ...      

I've always called talking between songs a "break".  I consider a segue to be the transition between one event and the next.  If there are two songs, back to back, with no imaging, we call that a "dead seg".  I've never heard a mixer called a table.  We either call it the "board" or the "console".  I agree...a table is what you sit it.  

Hmm.... mixers have frequently been referred to as 'mixing desks', but I thought that this was a peculiarly UK thing to do, not a US one!

When I was at the BBC , it was colloquially called the "panel" (for "control panel", I guess).  The documentation called it a "control desk".

See here for some old examples - these were what I used most.  I remember using this one when it was first installed.  Note that the fader off position is away from the operator, so that the active faders are most readily to hand.

Paul

A mixers is called the "Board" most of the time in the US. I do hear "console" used by some people.  

I think "mixing desks" refers to the huge consoles in recording studios. The ones in radio stations I have known them to be either boards or consoles. And tables are what they (mixers) all sit on and we sit at the table.  Anyway i think this is going in a little different direction now.

I think "mixing desks" refers to the huge consoles in recording studios.

If you do a google search, you get big ones and small ones. It does seem to be quite a widely-used term...

I call a mixer a blender, and sometimes I call my friend a taxi.

I wouldn't trust Kenny too far...I mean, I followed all those suggestions and now I'm working in a steamy hot tiny office in nowhere Wyoming.

Of course, it's afternoon drive on the #1 station in North East Wyoming, but hey...it's hot in there!

(they're fixing the AC next week)

it's afternoon drive on the #1 station in North East Wyoming

I never doubted that you would land that job. I'm sure it's your "hot" radio show putting off all the heat. Good to see you in the forums.  We need more of you radio types in here.

We need more of you radio types in here.

Still getting use to being called that.  Also still getting use to the groupies.  Well, ok, maybe that's not hard to get use to but, still...