HowTo End Your Show: Difference between revisions

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It is required that you lead in to some form of news programming at the end of each hour.  You do this with a standard '''news intro''':
It is required that you lead in to some form of news programming at the end of each hour.  You do this with a standard '''news intro''':


# At XX:59:50, play the News-In jingle ''or'' at XX:58:50, play the Up to Hour jingle.  You can use the [[studio clock]] for timing; it will tell you when the intro should be started.
# At XX:59:45, play the Flagship News IN jingle.  You can use the [[studio clock]] for timing; it will tell you when the intro should be started.
#* Don't continue playing music, go into the news intro as soon as the studio clock countdown expires.  It is always more professional to stop a song early and link out of it into the news intro than going straight from the middle of a song to the intro, but some intro is better than no intro.
#* Don't continue playing music, go into the news intro as soon as the studio clock countdown expires.  It is always more professional to stop a song early and link out of it into the news intro than going straight from the middle of a song to the intro, but some intro is better than no intro.
#* Also, saying self-referential things like "Now we have to do the news intro" sounds silly and you should try not to do that either!
#* Also, saying self-referential things like "Now we have to do the news intro" sounds silly and you should try not to do that either!