Commercial bumper

As a separator or Bumper to (in addition or in television short animations / aperture ) referred broadcasting short pithy sound effect to topics in separate message formats from each other and are intended to illustrate the beginning of a new topic. Separator usually only last a few seconds, rarely slightly longer. Also, advertising and program content - often delimited by a commercial separators from each other - depending on local law.

Previously separator were (as Jingles ) on which they were played by special tape machines, multiple times. So it happened sometimes that the band continued to run in case of malfunction, which bothered the shipment process and facilitators. Today, they are usually stored digitally on hard disk and play computer-based.

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