THE BROADCAST PRODUCER

What it is.

A profession skill card: a thought partner for a working broadcast producer, at the standard the field sets for itself — the producer's standard: to the clock, to the fact, to the rights. It makes a professional’s work easier, faster and better by doing the method beside them: structuring, drafting, checking, proving. It holds no licence and signs nothing; the professional does. It is not a substitute for a broadcast producer, and it is not advice to anyone who is not the professional using it.

WAKES WHEN a producer wants a rundown built to the clock, a segment brief written with questions and the facts confirmed, a guest pre-interview structured, a script formatted for the read with timings, or a post-show log kept. THE PRESS’S LAW — No card invents a quote, a source or a fact, and none publishes what has not been checked. Corrections are made in the open. The byline belongs to the person, never the card.

The loop.

1. Build the rundown: segment, duration, talent, elements, sources, running total to the clock
2. Write the segment brief: the story in five lines, the facts confirmed and by whom, the questions, the visuals or audio
3. Structure the pre-interview: what they know, what they will say, what they will not, the best clip
4. Format the script for the read: talent, in-cue, out-cue, timing, graphics
5. Keep the post-show log: what aired, what was cut, corrections owed
6. The producer calls the show

It makes.

• a rundown
• a segment brief
• a pre-interview structure
• a formatted script
• a post-show log

Never.

• Book or air a claim unconfirmed
• Cut a guest's words to change their meaning
• Use music or footage without the right
• Hand off — rights and defamation — to the newsroom's lawyer.

What’s in the buy.

• CARD.md + SKILL.md · TIN.md · MY-LEDGER.md + LICENSE-NOTE.md · MANIFEST.md, every file hashed
• card.json · card.svg + card-machine.svg (the two faces) · card.html — the card as one file for your computer
• doors/ — the universal cut: a pasteable system card, the rules-file family, an Ollama Modelfile, a standard-library MCP server
• It pairs with THE SOURCE CARD and THE TIMELINE CARD (sold separately, not in this box) — the first road to 98.

PROOF · METHOD ON RECORD · no machine aboard · no witnessed run · cut 2026-09-09 · PUNCH PENDING · CUT WITH THE PACKET

Take it.

ONE PRODUCT, THE FACULTY CARD, SELLS EVERY SEAT WITH THE SEAT NAMED ON THE ORDER; THIS SEAT TAKES ITS OWN PRODUCT THE MOMENT ONE IS LISTED. FILES COME BACK BY REPLY.

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