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Hosts should state the date at the very beginning of the episode. Minimally. Extra credit each for episode number, show URL, guest names, topics, sponsors, spo

• ghaff 5y ago
  With respect to date and guests (though the latter is usually stated anyway), aren't you typically coming into the episode through some mechanism that provides you with that information?
  • dredmorbius 5y ago
    Quite frequently not. Raw audio exists. (See my earlier response.)
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  I stumbled across an S3 bucket with a set of historical radio interview archives dating from the 1950s to the 2010s, nearly 1,000 individual recordings (not all full episodes, some are outtakes or short edits). None have the date indicated, either recording or air. Their a pretty fascinating cross-section of history, but the task of identifying when and who each recording concerns is tedious. The total set does correspond to a publicly-accessible interface, though that itself only provides access to a small subset of the total archive. (Likely because the hosting organisation is itself trying to identify and date the segments.) I can understand how early in the project this might have been acceptable, but after a decade or five, you'd think the host or producers might have had the inspiration to clearly identify their work. "Hello, I'm X, it's DATE, this is PROGRAM, and I'm talking today to GUEST(S)".