Slate Website Features ‘The Broadcast Clock’

The website Slate has an interesting piece on ‘The Broadcast Clock: The Diagram That Rules Public Radio’.

At NPR’s studios in Washington, D.C., there are clocks everywhere. Big red digital clocks, huge round analog clocks.

Slate notes each show also has a virtual “clock,” a set template, from which the show almost never varies. Every show that broadcasts—or aspires to broadcast—in the public radio system has a clock.

The article also shows the clock for NPR’s extremely popular ‘All Things Considered’ show which airs afternoon.

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