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Critique - the All A.I. Radio Station

What does an old pro have to say about how an AI does radio?

For the middle third of my career, I was an independant radio programming consultant.  Managers and owners hired guys like me to improve the sound and the ratings of their radio stations. One of the things I did was to prepare written critiques of my client station.  I'd get cassettes with 60 minute airchecks; tapes of the stations.  I'd listen and inventory everything and prepare detailed reports like the one you see below.  I haven't done one of these things in over a decade, but after listening to big broadcaster Audacy's  "all AI" station, I decided to study what the non-human did with a Classic Country station.  From the short biz news report I saw about the station, apparently the machine does it all, from the voice imaging and liner-writing, to the music-picking and scheduling. 

My comments about what I've heard are in bold font, but in the scans below it is not easy see that clearly. you can open the critique in a pdf file by clicking on this link:  Critique-Front Range Country PDF