OK so I learned this morning that those always-smooth local breaks during NPR's Morning Edition are prerecorded--at least at 3:30 AM.

I hopped in my car on the way to the feed mill and flipped on 91.5 to hear the following, paraphrased:

"You're listening to Morning Edition on Oregon Public Broadcasting. This weekend if you're going to the Bite of Portla...Portla...la la la la la (then an echo chamber effect) lalalalalalala. Lala, lala, lala" Followed by music, and the network.

OK! Cued up the wrong cut on CoolEdit, or whatever, Mr. OPB All-nighter? Don't feel bad. At least you didn't curse or say Balls or bray like a donkey like I did once, in drivetime in a bigger market. Sometimes the radio gods are mischievous.

Or the long time WOHI morning host who showed the fill in guy how to load the weather for the weekend, but never deleted his sample. From 6PM Friday until 5am Monday twice an hour you heard "Your AM 1490 WOHI weather calls for "Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah"...........
since the live FMers didn't monitor the AM unless it went off the air, no one picked it up until The GM called Sunday afternoon to ask Why the weather said Blah Blah Blah? the FM guy had no clue and the GM didn't think it important enough to have anyone else come in and cut new weather...