Radio Musing

The Timid Observer has been invited to give his two cents on air at KUHF, the Houston affiliate of NPR. The "This I Believe" essay that will be played on air was recorded last Friday. The essay took about twenty minutes to record, even though the essay took only two and a half minutes to read. The whole thing was done digitally, where even individual syllables could be cutted and pasted to form the perfect sentence. I hope the producer got all that he's needed.

I wish I had taken pictures inside the radio station, but I wasn't sure if they're allowed. The main impression I got from the tour of their facilities is how ordinary it looked. Aside from a live-music studio which is about the size of the aerobics room in a gym, nothing in the office looks that different from an ordinary office suite. I had expected the set of Frasier, where shows were done in studios that resembled a command center, with producers and call screeners sitting behind a side booth. At KUHF, the host just sits behind a normal L-shaped executive desk in front of eight LCD screens, talking into what appears to be a Bluetooth mouthpiece.