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Comblage

English translation: Filler; filler programming


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French term or phrase:Comblage
English translation:Filler; filler programming
Entered by: Carol Gullidge
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16:13 Feb 26, 2010
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Tech/Engineering - Media / Multimedia / Radiophonie
French term or phrase: Comblage
En radio, un concept qui permet de "combler" un vide audio en fin de pubs par exemple (medley musical p.e.)
Merci pour vos suggestions!
Et bon week-end!
Estelle Demontrond-Box
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:36
Filler
Explanation:
seems to fit the bill. Often used as a gap-fill between 2 more important/main features...

Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) Program Materials
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
recordings from AFRTS radio program materials only for continuing local AFRTS use. ..... AFRTS-BC television fillers are brief visual "snapshots" ...
www.nsf.gov/about/...ant/.../dod_5120-20-r_appendix-f_tagge... - Similar

www.fillerradio.com/Bio.html - Cached
Becoming a Broadcaster - International Radio Station WWRB
Q: I'd like to start a radio program on WWRB. What are your rates? ... Unfortunately, filler programming rarely benefits a radio station's paying ...
www.wwrb.org/faq_pages/faq_sect2.php - Cached

Filler | filler.com.au
LIKE the best accidental success stories, a Melbourne community radio program devoted to all things Beatles began as a filler. ...
www.filler.com.au/filler-articles/ -
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Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:36
Grading comment
Merci!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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3 +3Filler
Carol Gullidge
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GDT definition...
Chris Hall

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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Filler


Explanation:
seems to fit the bill. Often used as a gap-fill between 2 more important/main features...

Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) Program Materials
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
recordings from AFRTS radio program materials only for continuing local AFRTS use. ..... AFRTS-BC television fillers are brief visual "snapshots" ...
www.nsf.gov/about/...ant/.../dod_5120-20-r_appendix-f_tagge... - Similar

www.fillerradio.com/Bio.html - Cached
Becoming a Broadcaster - International Radio Station WWRB
Q: I'd like to start a radio program on WWRB. What are your rates? ... Unfortunately, filler programming rarely benefits a radio station's paying ...
www.wwrb.org/faq_pages/faq_sect2.php - Cached

Filler | filler.com.au
LIKE the best accidental success stories, a Melbourne community radio program devoted to all things Beatles began as a filler. ...
www.filler.com.au/filler-articles/ -

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:36
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PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Merci!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chris Hall
4 mins
  -> many thanks Chris!
agree  Michel F. Morin: Fine...
56 mins
  -> many thanks Michel!
agree  Liliane Hatem
2 hrs
  -> many thanks Liliane!
neutral  Tony M: 'filler' would be what you put in it, but I'm not quite sure of the right term for the action of doing it, as 'comblage' here; sounds like 'vamp till ready' in musical terms!
4 hrs
  -> the fillers are the programs. // according to one of my links, the action seems to be "filler programmig". No doubt there are also other possibilities
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15 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: GDT definition...

Reference information:
comblage n. m.

Définition :
Opération consistant à boucher un trou imprévu dans le programme ou à allonger une émission trop courte.

Chris Hall
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  polyglot45: I gather you have seen my point !
16 mins
  -> This was posted 12 minutes before you made your point!
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