"Mark Howell" wrote:

I know of one who does a request show from his home studio via
voice-tracking. The station's request line is forwarded to his house, he
takes and records the calls, cuts and edits the voice tracks, and sends them
via high-speed internet to the station's automation system, which he also
can control remotely, and changes the playlist and inserts the tracks as
needed. The calls and requests are delayed by mere minutes.

Gosh, this beats Wolfman Jack's days when you didn't hear your request to the
next night at the very same time...

You bring up a fascinating point: Will radio stations become the server farms
of broadcasting? On the weekends, it's not unusual for KGO's "live 'n' local"
talkshows to come from a station with empty studios.

I remember one day when KGO aired Leo Laporte from 11 to 1, Bob Brinker from 1
to 4, Len Tillem from 4 to 7, Karel from 7 to 10, Bill Wattenburg from 10 to
1, and Christine Craft from 1 to 5am -- none in the KGO studios.