Save Hours, Automate Tedious Radio Prep Tasks

You run a radio station for the love of music and the thrill of being live. You want to build a unique connection with listeners. You want to be spontaneous, energetic, and present.

But the on-air work is only a small part of the job. True spontaneity is a myth, for a show to sound natural, it still needs hours of preparation. Many broadcasters spend 2-3 hours preparing content for a single show, and this preparation is the tedious, repetitive work that uses your creative energy before you even open the mic.

You research show topics, pull local news headlines, write five different promos, the list goes on. You try to find a new way to talk about the same artist for the third time this week whilst checking the weather, scan for traffic, and update the station blog.

This mountain of prep work prevents you from connecting with your audience. It drains the energy you need for the live show – But what if you could stop doing it?

Cut The Timeline Down, Get On Air FAST

When broadcasters hear "generative AI," they often think of automation in the wrong way. They picture a robot replacing their job and they imagine a synthetic voice reading a generic script.

This is the wrong perspective. The goal is not to automate your show, it is to automate your prep. Use AI to free up your time. The time you can now use to connect with your listeners.

It’s like giving these tedious tasks to an assistant, a delegation that saves you time. You can use this time to engage with callers, post on social media, or be more energetic on your show. The work still gets done, it’s just that you are no longer being the one doing it.

Introducing ShowProducer

Here are six boring jobs you should stop doing. Instead, get an AI assistant for radio broadcasters, like ShowProducer, who can do them for you.

1. Brainstorming Show Ideas

The Boring Part: You start with a blank document every day. You must invent four hours of original, relevant content. The pressure is exhausting, the "tyranny of the blank page" can kill your creativity and you end up falling back on the same three topics or features because you ran out of time to think of something new.

The ShowProducer Solution: An AI assistant helps you create show hooks, like a brainstorming partner that never runs out of ideas. For example:

• Input: "The city council just approved a new downtown parking garage."
• Output: The assistant provides three segment hooks: 
  1. The "Commuter's Complaint" (interview a local business owner). 
  2. The "Price of Progress" (how much does it cost taxpayers?). 
  3. "The Hidden Gem" (what old building did they tear down to build it?).
• Input: "A listener called asking about the 'one-hit wonder' band Wheatus."
• Output: The assistant provides three music-focused hooks: 
  1. "Teenage Dirtbag: A 2000s Anthem" (play the song, read listener memories). 
  2. "Where Are They Now?" (a brief history of the band's other albums). 
  3. "The One-Hit Wonder Bracket" (pit them against another band and have listeners vote).

2. Researching Music & Segment Prep

The Boring Part: You want to share interesting facts about an artist or a newsworthy topic. This requires searching many websites, so you fall into a Wikipedia rabbit hole, clicking through fan sites, news articles, and old interviews. It takes 20 minutes to find one good piece of trivia. You are a show host, not an academic researcher.

The ShowProducer Solution: Get research in seconds. An assistant can scan, read, and summarize sources for you.

• Input: "We're playing the new Foo Fighters track."
• Output: The assistant provides a 50-word brief. It includes the track's connection to Taylor Hawkins and a quote from Dave Grohl about the album. This is specific information you can use on-air immediately.
• Input: "I need to talk about that new city parking garage."
• Output: The assistant provides a 100-word summary. It includes the cost (\$20 million), the projected completion date (Fall 2026), and the name of the construction firm. It gives you all the key facts without the spin, so you can add your own personality.

3. Compiling News & Weather Reports

The Boring Part: Your listeners expect local information. A Pew Research Center report found 75% of U.S. adults see local news as important. Compiling it is slow, you must check multiple local sites, weather bureaus, and traffic maps. You copy and paste text into a single document and rewrite everything to sound consistent, but, if you get it wrong or your report sounds stale, you break the listener's trust.

The ShowProducer Solution: Get a full local report. An AI assistant can scan five local sources at once. It generates a 150-word script with the top stories, a 3-day forecast, and a traffic summary, saving you prep time in the studio, it will find the most relevant information and present it clearly.

• Input: "Give me the 7 AM local update for Atlanta."
• Output: The assistant generates a script: "Good morning, Atlanta. A heads-up on the 75/85 connector, a stall is blocking the right lane southbound. Expect delays. Today's weather looks sunny with a high of 78. In local news, the city council passed the new budget last night. We have the details on what it means for your property taxes coming up."