Television Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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MAWG n. Ms. Ritterskamp supportively chalked his bad luck up to being a middle-aged white guy, or MAWG in game show parlance. “They’re desperate for minorities and women,” she said. (Michael Davis, the executive producer of “Millionaire,” said that without MAWG’s, “there would simply not be television game shows,” adding that “we’re looking to represent diversity in every sense of the word.”) [English Television Jargon Acronym] [full cite] (Oct. 24, 2006)

multi-plat-fornication n. Mr. Toffler has a plan in motion to upgrade the network for the age of digital convergence, a strategy he has been known to refer to as “multi-plat-fornication”: an all-out effort to deliver MTV content to every form of technology imaginable, from mobile phones to digital cable to a Web-based on-demand channel called MTV Overdrive. [English Entertainment Media Television] [full cite] (Aug. 27, 2005)

newpeat n. Get ready for the television “newpeat.“ In an unusual experiment aimed at improving ratings for reruns, NBC next week plans to air two previously seen half-hour episodes of “The Office” that have been re-edited into a new hour-long show. Some scenes will be cut so producers can weave in unaired footage that introduces a new storyline into the older episodes. [English Media Television New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2007)

noddie n. Whenever you see an taped interviewer nodding, smiling or reacting with a knowing or quizzical eyebrow, you are generally watching what are called “noddies”—reaction shots filmed after the interview takes place. [English Media Television Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 22, 2007)

noddy n. So how can you see both the interviewer asking his/her questions and the interviewee? The solution is a device called the reverse, the cutaway or the “noddy.“ After the interview is over the camera and lights are shifted to another position, the interviewer asks the questions all over again and these re-shot questions are reinserted during editing. For reaction shots the interviewer simply looks where the interviewee was, or still is, and tries to appear as if he were talking to the person he’s just interviewed. [English Media Television] [full cite] (Jul. 24, 2007)

noddy n. After the interview is finished, the camera is then turned onto the interviewer who asks some of the questions again and gives a series of “noddies,“ that is, reaction shots, nods, smiles, or expressions of sympathetic listening. These are to disguise later edits in the interviewee’s speech. When section of this speech is edited out, the cut is disguised by inserting a noddy,“ thus hiding the fact that any editing of the speaker’s words has occurred. Without the “noddy,“ the visuals would show an obvious “jump” that would reveal the edit. [English Media Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 24, 2007)

noddy shot n. She is queen of the indignant snort, the appalled noddy shot, the last disgusted scripted throw-away line. [English Media Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 24, 2007)

obdoc n. The schedules of the commercial networks are brimming with true-story series, commonly known as “obdocs” (observational documentaries) or docu-dramas. [English Entertainment Television Abbreviation] [full cite] (Mar. 4, 2008)

off-air reporter n. Mr. Conroy, whose job title is “off-air reporter,” (because he does not normally appear on television) is one of many young journalists hired by the networks to follow the candidates across the country, filing video and blog posts as they go. Originally hired to cut expenses—their cost is a fraction of a full television crew’s—these reporters, also called “embeds,” have produced a staggering amount of content, especially video. And in this election cycle, for the first time, they are able to edit and transmit video on the fly. [English Media Television] [full cite] (Feb. 13, 2008)

off-cube adj. In the end they went with the BBC’s ball-by-ball feed on Radio 2000, despite having local commentators on standby to commentate off television at the SABC’s Auckland Park studios. The practice—known as “off cube” broadcasting—is widely frowned on. [English Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 14, 2008)

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