An AI radio station you run yourself.

Not a queue that gets topped up. A forward lineup several hours deep that you can see and edit, where every record and every break carries its own state. The console, the schedule and the model all ask one part of the station to change it, and that part is the only thing that writes it. So an edit made at 3pm is still true at 3.05.

Tell it what you want in a sentence, “rap like snoop dog”, and it programmes the next hours to that brief. Ask it why the record on air is on air and it will say. Nothing is committed to air until its audio is on the machine, so the stream never waits on a download. The running order.

The presenter talks between records using a local or hosted model when one is configured. When there is none, when it is slow, or when what it wrote failed a check, the station falls back on its own phrasings. That floor cannot fail, which is the whole design.

Every attempt is kept, the declined ones too, with the reason. One here was turned down because the model said “tonight” at seven in the morning, which a listener hears immediately and the station cannot take back. Breaks.

Every fact the presenter mentions about a record is a stored claim with the sentence of source prose behind it. A claim with no source cannot be written down at all. The alternative is a presenter saying something specific, checkable and untrue in exactly the voice it uses for things that are true.

It also knows what the record sounds like. A measurement sidecar decodes each one for its cue points and its loudness, so the silence at its head and tail is trimmed before the player ever sees it. Facts and claims.

Who is presenting is a character with a voice, a diction, how much rope it is given and how brief it is. It keeps a notebook of what it has said and the traits it is growing into, and a set of stories it can tell on air. A show can hand the hour to a different character, and you can rehearse one over an hour of records before it goes on air. Characters.

It can also give the hour to something that is not records: a podcast it carries, a book or column it reads out, or a phone-in it produces for itself, where a caller and the host trade turns and each turn is its own model call in its own voice. A guest can drop by the studio the same way, and a show's co-hosts can banter.