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TV News Producer Cheatsheet: Offbeat News Stories (with accompanying bumper music)

Feb 11, 2009, 9:18am EAR FARM
Bumper music is "a term used in the radio broadcasting industry to refer to short clips of music used to buffer transitions between programming elements. Bumper music is commonly employed when a syndicated program takes a break for local station identification or goes to commercial." (above control room image from HERE ) Often you'll see pop songs used to "bump" offbeat or curious news stories on cable news channels, many times the music isn't so well chosen... well, we're here to help (as we have previously HERE and HERE ). [...]
Artist:Burl Ives
Title:The Donut Song (Album Version)
Link Text:The Donut Song by Burl Ives
File Name:04 The Donut Song (Album Version).mp3
Bitrate:241 kbps
Year:1995
Artist:RUN-DMC
Title:Dumb Girl
Link Text:Dumb Girl by Run-DMC
File Name:10 Dumb Girl.mp3
Bitrate:241 kbps
Year:1999
Artist:Soeur Sourire
Title:Dominique
Link Text:Dominique by Soeur Sourire
File Name:01 Dominique.mp3
Bitrate:217 kbps
Year:2007
Artist:Talking Heads
Title:Television Man
Link Text:Television Man by Talking Heads
File Name:08 Television Man.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1985
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