TMC
10-31-2020, 02:11 AM
According to Ken Levine (http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2020/10/friday-questions_30.html), it's not very accurate at least in terms of the technical aspects of the radio station. But it's still more accurate than on WKRP in Cincinnati.
Engineers are not also producers in large market stations like Seattle. Normally there is a producer in a separate booth who screens the calls. The engineer plays the commercials and controls the volumes.
The host has a computer screen that tells him who the callers are, where they’re from, and a thumbnail of what they want to talk about. It was that way back in the '90s.
Rarely does the engineer go on the air as often as Roz did. If she did she would have to be AFTRA and the station would have to pay her as an announcer. That wouldn't happen.
The host can’t just break whenever he wants. He has a log that tells him when commercial breaks or other format elements need to be introduced (like traffic and news).
Engineers are not also producers in large market stations like Seattle. Normally there is a producer in a separate booth who screens the calls. The engineer plays the commercials and controls the volumes.
The host has a computer screen that tells him who the callers are, where they’re from, and a thumbnail of what they want to talk about. It was that way back in the '90s.
Rarely does the engineer go on the air as often as Roz did. If she did she would have to be AFTRA and the station would have to pay her as an announcer. That wouldn't happen.
The host can’t just break whenever he wants. He has a log that tells him when commercial breaks or other format elements need to be introduced (like traffic and news).