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

Apr 29, 2009, 10:01am 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:Bruce Springsteen
Title:Brilliant Disguise
Link Text:Brilliant Disguise by Bruce Springsteen
File Name:09 Brilliant Disguise.mp3
Bitrate:160 kbps
Year:1987
Artist:Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
Title:The Message (LP Version)
Link Text:The Message by Grandmaster Flash  The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel  Duke Bootee
File Name:07 The Message (LP Version).mp3
Bitrate:256 kbps
Year:2005
Artist:The Raveonettes
Title:You Want The Candy
Link Text:You Want The Candy by The Raveonettes
File Name:08 You Want The Candy.mp3
Bitrate:202 kbps
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