An exchange of so-called back announcing that I heard recently:
DJ 1: We played a bunch of songs. I'm not going to tell you what they were. Why do we have to label everything?
DJ 2: It's music. That's all you need to know.
My reaction: Although there's no law that mandates back announcing the music one plays on a radio station, announcers should do it anyway. It's a basic function of the job, after all, and when your station plays new, relatively obscure music and doesn't post its playlist online, it's all the more reason to identify what you've played.
This concludes today's mild admonishment.
