Then it was on Monika, the director, to figure out what to do. When Julia visited ATC, a live interview segment accidentally got wrapped up 35 seconds early. Though, of course, things go wrong every day. Segments can’t run long by even a second, because most of the local stations are automated to cut off the national program where the clock says they can. These times - the dividers between the sections on the clock - are called posts. Then there are the “blocks” - A, B, C, and D - which is where the stories and interviews (or “two-ways”) live. Then there’s five minutes for the newscast, which is itself divided into two segments (“Newscast I” and “Newscast II”). Here’s how it works: at the ‘top’ of the hour, there is a 59 second “billboard,” which announces what’s going up in the program. It’s actually a pretty cool piece of visual design, but one which functions best when it is never seen. This template is used twice every weekday: ATC Hour 1, from 4:00:00pm through 4:59:59pm ET and then for ATC Hour 2, from 5:00:00 through 5:59:59pm ET. Every show that broadcasts-or aspires to broadcast-in the public radio system has a clock. This is the All Things Considered broadcast clock, which NPR and stations across the country refer to on a daily basis: Big red digital clocks, huge round analog clocks. There’s even special software and time calculators, where 60 + 60 = 2’00.Įach show has a ‘clock’, a set template, from which the show almost never varies. Credit: Julia BartonĪt NPR’s studios in Washington, DC, there are clocks everywhere.

All Things Considered director Monika Evstatieva during a live broadcast in NPR’s Studio 2A. Inside of a driveway moment, time becomes elastic - you could be staring straight at a clock for the entire duration of the story, but for that length of time, the clock has no power over you.īut ironically, inside the machinery of public radio - the industry that creates driveway moments - the clock rules all. There’s a term that epitomizes what we radio producers aspire to create: the “driveway moment.” It’s when a story is so good that you can’t leave your car.

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