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Radio commercial A radio commercial (often called an advert in the United Kingdom, or a spot to people in the business) is a form of advertising in which goods, services, organizations, ideas, etc. are promoted via the medium of radio.
Radio Caroline Radio Caroline is a European radio station that originally commenced transmissions as an offshore radio station broadcasting from a ship anchored off the coast of South East England in international waters. Unlicensed by any government for the majority of its life, it was labelled as a pirate radio station.
Radio Caroline (onshore) Radio Caroline is a European radio station broadcasting over the airwaves, via satellite and on the Internet. The station has a long and colourful history that commenced with unlicensed transmissions from a single ship anchored off the coast of England in 1964.
Radio Centraal Radio Centraal is a Belgian "underground" radio station in the old city center of Antwerp. Founded around 1980, it remains an independent radio project with many experimental programs and niche music.
Radio Ceredigion Radio Ceredigion is a local radio station owned by Tindle News that broadcasts from Aberystwyth to the west coast of Wales. Radio Ceredigion is a bilingual Station with three studios which reflects the needs of the local communities.
Radio Ceylon Radio Ceylon is the oldest radio station in South Asia. Broadcasting was started on an experimental basis in Ceylon by the Telegraph Department in 1923, just three years after the inauguration of broadcasting in Europe.
Radio Clambake "Radio Clambake", also known as "RadioClambake" or just "Clambake" or "RC" in its community, is a comedy/variety Internet radio show. It is usually available for listening on most weekdays, and the scheduled LIVE shows are on Friday and Saturday nights, 9 p.
Radio Classics Radio Classics is an old time radio network which distributes programs across multiple platforms including terrestrial radio, cable/satellite television, satellite radio, and the internet. Radio Classics syndicates their segments to over 250 AM/FM radio stations, and programs a 24-hour station carried by both XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Radio Clube do Mindelo Radio Clube do Mindelo (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Radiu Klubi du Mindelu, SĂŁo Vicente Crioulo: Radio Klube d' Mindel) is a local radio station in Cape Verde broadcasted in the Portuguese language. The station serves Mindelo as well as a part of the entire Barlavento island group including Santo AntĂŁo, SĂŁo Vicente and SĂŁo Nicolau.
Radio College Park Radio College Park is the oldest operational Persian] [[podcast in the entire world and a weekly audio program produced by a group of Iranian graduate students at the University of Maryland at College Park. The subjects of the programs of this podcast include science, society, art, entertainment, history, literature, interview, and report.
Radio Corporation of Singapore The Radio Corporation of Singapore, was the largest radio broadcasting company in Singapore, existing from 1994 to 2001; predecessor of MediaCorp Radio, successor of the radio broadcasting arm of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation.
Radio dead air Radio Dead Air is a webcast that originally began as part of a LARP chronicle based in the World of Darkness under the auspice of the Camarilla fan club. Since the ending of that chronicle, RDA has moved on to become a webcast about current music, pop culture, science fiction, fantasy, politics and whatever else the audience feels motivated to discuss.
Radio direction finder A radio direction finder, or RDF, is a device for finding the direction to a radio source. Due to radio's ability to travel very long distances "over the horizon", it makes a particularly good navigation system for ships and aircraft that might be flying at a distance from land.
Radio documentary A radio documentary or feature is a radio programme devoted to covering a particular topic in some depth, usually with a mixture of commentary and sound pictures. Some radio features, especially those including specially composed music or other pieces of audio art, resemble radio drama in many ways, though non-fictional in subject matter, while others consist principally of more straightforward, journalistic-type reporting – but at much greater length than found in an ordinary news report.
Radio Data System Radio Data System, or RDS, is a standard from the European Broadcasting Union for sending small amounts of digital information using conventional FM radio broadcasts. The RDS system standardises several types of information transmitted, including time, track/artist info and station identification.
Radio Day Radio Day (Russian: День радио), Communications Workers' Day (as it is officially known in Russia) or Radio and Television Day (Ден на радиото и телевизията, as it is known in Bulgaria) is a commemoration of the invention of radio in Russia. It takes place on May 7, the day in 1895 on which Alexander Popov successfully demonstrated his invention.
Radio DDR 1 Radio DDR 1 was a radio channel produced and transmitted by Rundfunk der DDR, the radio broadcasting organization of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It had a mixed schedule of news and light entertainment, with the emphasis on events in the GDR, and also included regional programming.
Radio Disney song edits Radio Disney is a radio network designed for children and tweens. When a broadcast song contains adult content or language that may be inappropriate for listeners or objectionable to their parents, Radio Disney's policy is to make song edits for length or content.
Radio edit A radio edit is a remix of a musical performance to make it more suitable for broadcast to the general public via radio. It is synonymous with terms such as radio version, radio mix, single version, single mix, 7" mix, 7" edit, clean edit, and so on.
Radio equipment Radio equipment: As defined in Federal Information Management Regulations, any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment (both transmission and reception) that is used to communicate over a distance by modulating and radiating electromagnetic waves in space without artificial guide. This does not include such items as microwave, satellite, or cellular telephone equipment.
Radio Emergency Associated Communication Teams REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams), began as a CB radio Channel 9 radio monitoring organization in the United States in 1962. The initial primary goal was to monitor Channel 9, the CB Emergency Channel, to help assist motorists.
Radio ESDC Radio ESDC is a francophone radio service provided to the students who attend École secondaire de Clare in Meteghan, Nova Scotia. Radio ESDC is also well known for being one of the only 3 student radio stations in Canada.
Radio Expeditions The Radio Expeditions series is a joint production of NPR and the National Geographic Society. Radio Expeditions uses interviews, narration, and on-location recording to bring listeners to exotic locations around the world.
Radio festival A radio festival is a music show featuring live bands that are created and promoted solely by commercial radio stations or media conglomerates. Often, bands are not paid for their performances, but they are given free air play in addition to the exposure received by the promotion of the festival.
Radio fingerprinting Radio fingerprinting is a process that identifies a cellular phone or any other radio transmitter by the unique "fingerprint" that characterizes its signal transmission. An electronic fingerprint makes it possible to identify a wireless device by its unique radio transmission characteristics.
Radio frequency Radio frequency, or RF, refers to that portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in which electromagnetic waves can be generated by alternating current fed to an antenna. Such frequencies and the belonging wavelength account for the following parts of the spectrum shown in the table below.
Radio frequency engineering Radio frequency engineering is the analysis and design of circuits at frequencies where transmission lines are comparable to the wavelength. It includes the study of amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, demodulators (including PLLs) and antennas.
Radio Ferrymead Radio Ferrymead is a radio station operated by the Radio Preservation Society (RPS) in Christchurch, New Zealand. The RPS is a non-profit incorporated society based at the Ferrymead Heritage Park whose aim is to collect, preserve and display radio and radio related historical items.
Radio Forth On 22 January 1975, Richard Findlay (the Radio Forth chairman) woke up the listeners of Edinburgh, The Lothians and Fife to the words: "This, for the very first time is Radio Forth". The first DJ on air was a man named Steve Hamilton who hosted the breakfast show.
Radio France Internationale Radio France Internationale (RFI) was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France to serve as a broadcast vehicle for French Equatorial Africa. In 1986 a new law passed by the French Parliament allowed RFI to operate independently of Radio France.
Radio Free The term "Radio Free" is prefixed to several radio stations which were set up by United States Central Intelligence Agency to deliver news to countries strategically important to the foreign relations of the United States. The official stations are:
Radio Free Afghanistan Radio Free Afghanistan is a radio service broadcast by the United States government in Afghanistan, an extension of the Radio Free Europe program (broadcasting from Prague). It has existed during two separate periods: from 1985 to 1993, it broadcast anti-Soviet messages in order to encourage resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; from 2002 to the present, it broadcasts messages to encourage a transition to democratic government following the October 2001 U.
Radio Free America Radio Free America (colloquially known as RFA) is an Electronic/Rock band from Phoenix, Arizona. The brainchild of singer-songwriter Eric Seven, the band is well known in the desert Southwest for its unique blend of synthesized beats and aggressive guitar.
Radio Free Penn State Radio Free Penn State, commonly referenced as "Radio Free" or "RFPS", is a public affairs talk show that airs weekdays on The Lion 90.7FM, the student radio station at the Pennsylvania State University.
Radio Free Virgin Radio Free Virgin is a digital radio broadcaster started in early 1999, and a member company of the Virgin Group. Their programming consists of over 60 professionally-programmed channels playing various genres of music.
Radio Freedom Radio Freedom was the radio propaganda arm of the African National Congress during the anti-Apartheid struggle from the 1970s through the 1990s. While the broadcasts were from different radio stations (including those of Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Ethiopia, and Madagascar), their station identifications all sported the trademark introduction familiar to many from the KLF song "3 a.
Radio Frequency Identification Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves.
Radio Frequency Systems Radio Frequency Systems is a global designer of cable and antenna systems plus active and passive RF conditioning modules, providing total-package solutions for wireless infrastructure. Its Global Headquarters is located in Hannover.
Radio Fun Radio Fun was a British comic book that ran from (issues dates) 15 October 1938 to 18 February 1961, when it became the first out of twelve titles to merge with Buster. By this time it had been renamed to Radio Fun and Adventure.
Radio galaxy Radio galaxies and their relatives, radio-loud quasars and blazars, are types of active galaxy that are very luminous at radio wavelengths (up to 1038 W between 10 MHz and 100 GHz). The radio emission is due to the synchrotron process.
Radio Guangdong Radio Guangdong (Chinese: 城市之声 Pinying: Ceng Shi Ji Sheng) broadcasts news and information about the Guangdong and Guangzhou province areas. It broadcasts in the United States on Sirius Satellite Radio through the World Radio Network.
Radio horizon In telecommunication, radio horizon is the locus of points at which direct rays from an antenna are tangential to the surface of the Earth. If the Earth were a perfect sphere and there were no atmospheric anomalies, the radio horizon would be a circle.
Radio in the United States The beginning of regular commercially licensed sound broadcasting in the United States in 1920 ended the print monopoly over the media and opened the doors to the more immediate and pervasive electronic media. By 1928, the United States had three national radio networks - two owned by NBC (the National Broadcasting Company), and one by CBS (the Columbia Broadcasting System).
Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment Radio Ice Cerenkov Experiment (RICE) is an experiment designed to detect the Cherenkov emission in the radio regime of the electromagnetic spectrum from the interaction of high energy neutrinos (greater than 1 PeV) with the Antarctic ice cap. The goals of this experiment are to determine the potential of the radio-detection technique for measuring the high energy cosmic neutrino flux, determining the sources of this flux, and measuring neutrino-nucleon cross sections at energies above those accessible with existing accelerators.
Radio International Radio International (in Persian: رادیو انترناسیونال) is a Radio Station in Persian which is against the current Islamic Republic of Iran. Although it represents itself as “an independent radio” it is a de facto organ of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran.
Radio Islam Radio Islam, was a Swedish radio channel, now a website, which is dedicated to "the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people against Israel". The EU's racism monitoring organization has called it "one of the most radical right wing anti-Semitic homepages on the net," and Radio Islam also espouses Holocaust denial and praise Adolf Hitler and nazism.
Radio Ixtlan Radio Ixtlan is the fourth studio album by the British experimental extreme music project Ewigkeit. It is a concept album based on the concept of the journey of the soul, examining psychological, parapsychological and mythological themes.
Radio jamming Radio jamming is the transmission of radio signals that disrupt communications by decreasing the signal to noise ratio. Unintentional jamming occurs when an operator transmits on a busy frequency without checking that it is in use first, or without being able to hear distant stations on the same frequency.
Radio jockey A radio jockey or RJ is a person who hosts a radio talk show, where he/she selects the music to be played by interacting with the audience via telephone. Lately, the term started to be associated with radio show hosts who interact online with viewers, with or without playing a song.
Radio Kabul Radio Kabul is the official radio station of Afghanistan. The name Radio Kabul has been given to many different incarnations of the state-run radio station since the first radio transmitters were installed in Kabul in the 1920s.
Radio Königsberg Radio Königsberg was a radiostation which transmitted news related to Germany and Nazism during the WWII. The radiostation transmitted in Swedish and the purpose was to gain the Swedes support for Germany but most of all Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party.
Radio Kerne Radio Kerne is a radio station that broadcasts exclusively in the Breton language. It broadcasts on FM in south Finistère, the westenmost département of Brittany, France, and on the Internet to the rest of the world.
Radio Limerick One Radio Limerick One, also called Limerick 95FM and RLO at times, was an Irish pirate radio station, which was the licensed radio station serving Limerick city and county. Licenced by the Independent Radio and Television Commission in 1989, its licence was removed in 1996 for misbehaviour, although the station did not leave the airwaves.
Radio Link Protocol Radio Link Protocol (RLP) is an automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol used over a wireless (typically cellular) air interface. Most wireless air interfaces are tuned to provide 1% packet loss, which is a tolerable loss rate for modern Vocoders.
Radio Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg (1933-1992, 2005-) was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in Europe. It was a cheap and effective way to advertise products to audiences in the UK, France and (since 1957) Germany by circumventing the broadcasting restrictions in place at the time.
Radio mast Berlin-Olympiastadium The Radio mast Berlin-Olympiastadium is a 180.7 metre high guyed steel framework radio mast with a cross section of 2 * 2 metres for FM transmissions and mobile phone services near the Olympia Stadium in Berlin, Germany.
Radio masts and towers Radio masts and towers are, typically, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials in the UK) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. They are among the tallest man-made structures.
Radio music ripping The term ripping (slang term for digital audio extraction) can also apply to radio. New software and techniques now makes it possible to extract the songs played on the radio and digitally save them on separate mp3 tracks.
Radio MartĂ­ Radio MartĂ­ is a radio and television broadcaster based in Miami, Florida, financed by the United States government (Broadcasting Board of Governors), which transmits Spanish radio broadcasts to Cuba. Its broadcasts can also be heard in the United States.
Radio Maryja Radio Maryja is a controversial ultra-Catholic and nationalistic radio station and media group founded (in Toruń, Poland, on December 9, 1991) and directed by Father Tadeusz Rydzyk. Radio Maryja strongly supported the victorious Law and Justice party and Lech Kaczyński during the parliamentary and presidential elections in Poland in 2005.
Radio Massacre International Radio Massacre International are a trio of British musicians, Steve Dinsdale (Keyboards and Drums), Duncan Goddard (Keyboards and Bass), and Gary Houghton (Guitar, Synth). They specialize in improvisational experimental electronic music, utilising vintage synthesizers and sampled sounds alongside electric guitar.
Radio Mix Radio Mix (or simply Radio, according to the official discography) is a CD-only promotional recording by Autechre. It is mostly made up of continuous, DJ-style remixes of other artists' tracks, and is considered extremely difficult to get hold of.
Radio Music Award The Radio Music Awards are an annual award show that honors the year's most successful songs on mainstream radio. In past years, the show has included many of the top names in music including Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Elton John, Destiny's Child, Tim McGraw, Nelly, Gavin DeGraw, Avril Lavigne, Lifehouse, and Kelly Clarkson, among others.
Radio network A radio network is a network system which distributes programming to multiple stations simultaneously, or slightly delayed, for the purpose of extending total coverage beyond the limits of a single broadcast signal. The resulting expanded audience for programming essentially applies the benefits of mass-production to the broadcasting enterprise.
Radio noise source A radio noise source is a device that emits radio waves at a certain frequency, used to calibrate radio telescopes such that received data may be compared to a known value, as well as to find the focal point of a telescope soon after construction, so that the wave guide and front end may be properly located.
Radio Nacional de España Radio Nacional de España (RNE) is the Spanish national radio service, founded in 1937 which, since 1973, has formed part of the public media organisation Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) which also includes Televisión Española (TVE).
Radio Netherlands Radio Netherlands (RNW, short for Radio Nederland Wereldomroep in Dutch) is a public radio and television network based in Hilversum, producing and transmitting programmes for international audiences outside the Netherlands. Radio Netherlands has also distributed content via web and e-mail technology from as early as 1992.
Radio Network Controller The Radio Network Controller (or RNC) is the governing element in the UMTS radio access network (UTRAN) responsible for control of the Node-Bs, that is to say the base stations which are connected to the controller. The RNC carries out radio resource management, some of the mobility management functions and is the point where encryption is done before user data is sent to and from the mobile.
Radio New Zealand Radio New Zealand Limited is New Zealand's public service radio broadcaster. It is presently a Crown Entity established by the Radio New Zealand Act 1995, incorporated under the Companies Act 1993, and a designated lifeline utility under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002, Schedule A.
Radio New Zealand National Radio New Zealand National is a New Zealand radio channel owned and operated by Radio New Zealand. It broadcasts non-commercial programmes dedicated to news, the arts, music, and New Zealand culture generally, including some material in the Maori language.
Radio Newyork International Radio Newyork International was the name of a pirate radio station which broadcast from a ship anchored in international waters off Jones Beach, Long Island, New York, USA in both 1987 and 1988. The history of Radio Newyork International (RNI), is also linked to articles about Radio Caroline, Principality of Sealand and WBCQ.
Radio Nord Radio Nord was a Swedish offshore commercial station that operated briefly from 8 March 1961 to 30 June 1962 from a ship anchored in international waters of the Baltic Sea off Stockholm, Sweden. While the station was dubbed as a pirate radio station, its actual operation took place within the laws of the day and its offices were located in the heart of Stockholm.
Radio Nova (Norway) Radio Nova is a non-commercially run student radio situated and broadcasting in Oslo, Norway, at FM 99,3. The radio is devoted to playing underground music, and is run by a team of volunteered journalists and technicians.
Radio Oglaigh na h-Éireann Radio Oglaigh na h-Éireann was established in 1962 to provide a shortwave service to Irish Defence Forces serving in United Nations peacekeeping missions in the Republic of the Congo. The service was discontinued after several years.
Radio On Radio On is a film directed by Christopher Petit and released in 1979. It is a rare example of a British road movie, shot in black and white and featuring music from a number of New Wave bands from the time, as well as established artists such as Kraftwerk and David Bowie.
Radio Orienteering in a Compact Area Radio Orienteering in a Compact Area is a variation of Amateur Radio Direction Finding. ROCA is a timed race in which individual competitors use a topographic map and a magnetic compass to navigate through diverse, wooded terrain while searching for radio transmitters.
Radio paging Radio paging was invented in 1956 at St Thomas' Hospital in London to alert doctors attending emergencies. Since then, paging has evolved in sophistication and today millions of messages are transmitted to people needing fast reliable messaging communications.
Radio personality A radio personality is the modern incarnation of the disk jockey, or DJ. In the 1990s, successful radio stations began to focus less on the musical expertise of their hosts and more on the individual hosts' personalities.
Radio premium During the time radio programs were the dominant medium in the United States, some programs advertised "souvenirs" of the various shows, which were sometimes called radio premiums. The first of these were generally cast photographs and the like, but eventually, these evolved into novelties that many children collected.
Radio propagation model A Radio Propagation Model, also known as the Radio Wave Propagation Model or the Radio Frequency Propagation Model, is an empirical mathematical formulation for the characterization of radio wave propagation as a function of frequency, distance and other conditions. A single model is usually developed to predict the behavior of propagation for all similar links under similar constraints.
Radio Paradise Radio Paradise is a popular and pioneering Internet radio station that defines itself as "eclectic online rock radio". The channel differs from most FM channels and other Internet stations in that the music played is not limited to any specific genre but instead represents great variety.
Radio Protector Radio Protector is the only single taken from 65daysofstatic's second album, 2005's One Time For All Time. It was released in February 2006 on 7" vinyl only, and limited to 1500 copies, containing both the track and new B-side "Asphalt & Trouble".
Radio reading service A radio reading service or reading service for the blind is a service of many universities, community groups and public radio stations, where a narrator reads books, newspapers and magazines aloud for the benefit of the blind and vision-impaired. It is most often carried on a subcarrier, with radio receivers permanently tuned to a given station in the area.
Radio receiver design This page on radio receiver design is devoted to the design philosophy of radio receivers. The term radio receiver is understood in this article to mean any device which is intended to receive a radio signal and if need be to extract information from the signal.
Radio resource management Radio resource management (RRM) is the system level control of co-channel interference and other radio transmission characteristics in wireless communication systems, for example cellular networks, wireless networks and broadcasting systems. RRM involves strategies and algorithms for controlling parameters such as transmit power, channel allocation, handover criteria, modulation scheme, error coding scheme, etc.
Radio Radio (song) "Radio Radio" was an A-side 7" 45 rpm single by Elvis Costello and The Attractions in the UK in October 1978. The song had already appeared on the American version of their second album, This Year's Model, released earlier that year.
Radio Raheem Radio Raheem is an archetype character from 1989's Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee's career defining film. Radio Raheem served as one of the chief minor characters in the film, and ultimately became one of the first victims of extreme violence-and death-in the film.
Radio Reconnaissance Platoon The Radio Reconnaissance Platoon is the special operations element of the United States Marine Corps Radio Battalion. In addition, a Radio Reconnaissance Team (RRT) is the tactical signals intelligence collection element of the Marine Corps Special Operations Command, Detachment One.
Radio Regulations The Radio Regulations is an intergovernmental treaty text of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the Geneva based specialised agency of the United Nations which coordinates and standardises the operation of telecommunication networks and services and advances the development of communications technology.
Radio Rennes Bretagne Radio Rennes Bretagne was a radio station based in Rennes, and the first station to have regular Breton language programming (However, it was not powerful enough to broadcast to the Breton-speaking parts of the region.) From November 1940 to June 1944 the station broadcast bilingual programming by switching over to Radio Paris for one hour each week.
Radio Research Station The Radio Research Station 1924 - August 31, 1979 at Ditton Park was the UK government research laboratory which pioneered the regular observation of the ionosphere by ionosondes in continuous operation since September 20, 1932, and applied the ionosonde technology for the first developments which lead to British Chain Home radar system which was operational at the start of World War II.
Radio Romántica Radio Romántica was a name used by EXCL Communications (later Entravision) for various Spanish-language radio stations from the 1990s through 2005. The earliest known reference to Radio Romántica is from 1997 at which time KBRG] San Francisco, [[KJMN Denver, KRZY Albuquerque, an unknown Salinas station, and another unknown station were using the name.
Radio Row Radio Row (1921-1966) was a warehouse district in lower Manhattan, New York City. Radio Row was born in 1921 with the opening of City Radio on Cortlandt Street and died in 1966 when it was torn down to make room for the World Trade Center.
Radio RSA Radio RSA: The Voice of South Africa was the international broadcasting service of the Republic of South Africa. It was run by the South African Broadcasting Corporation from its inception on 1 May1966 until its demise in 1992 following the end of the apartheid era.
Radio silence In telecommunications, radio silence is a status maintained where all fixed or mobile radio stations in an area stop transmitting. In this sense, "radio station" means anything which is capable of transmitting a radio signal.
Radio speaking Radio speaking is a high school speech and debate competition event, involving the preparation and delivery of a five-minute newscast. Scripts may be prepared the day preceding a tournament, or in a thirty to forty-five minute "prep period" before performance.
Radio spectrum pollution Radio spectrum pollution is the straying of waves in the radio and electromagnetic spectrums outside their allocations that cause problems for some activities. It is a specialised form of light pollution, and of particular concern to radio astronomers.
Radio station A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast common programming, either in syndication or simulcast or both.
Radio stations in interwar Poland The pioneers of radio in Poland were officers - soldiers of Polish origins, who served in units of German, Austrian and Russian armies in the World War I. In the fall of 1918, shortly after the war, these experts started to help out with organizing Polish radio.
Radio sweepers Radio sweepers are used by radio stations as segues between songs that give listeners a brief station identifier or promo, generally 20 seconds or less: "You're listening to the soft sounds of [NAME] radio. Easy listening throughout the Bay area.

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