We have done quite a bit of thinking about our broadcast schedule, weighing the  pace of new material and needed repetition so that our listeners are able  to keep up.

As you know, our content is audio books.  Some of the content is from serial works: chapters of longer books, for example.  And some of the content is stand-alone.

Radio stations traditionally work on an hourly format and things are organized in “shows” of 1-hour length.  That is what listeners expect to find.

Here’s an overview of our current broadcast schedule plan:

We will have eight one-hour shows, separating our material by content type:  History & Biography, Mystery & Suspense, Travel & Nature, Americana, Humor, Romance, General Fiction.

Each weekday (M-F) we will have 8 hours of fresh material followed by two repeats of that, to make 24 hours.  That gives us 40 hours of new material per week.  On the weekend we propose to replay those 40 hours.  And that leaves us with 8 hours unallocated on the weekend.

An hourly show would start off with one or more chapters of the book or whatever piece we are working through.  Then any remaining time in that hour will be filled with random small selections from our library.

We must have a station identification at least once per hour.  And our underwriting message for that hour will most likely fit at the beginning of the hour.