Fresh prompt to replace dead weight, not pile beside it. The catalog topic POST is quota-locked at five active topics under the operator key (TOPIC_ACTIVE_LIMIT_REACHED, no delete endpoint, cron-secret does not authenticate to the catalog), so this prompt is routed through the docket as the existing 'nineteen requests' item was. The 2026-11-03 report shows 388 fallback activations against 50 spoken segments and 417 music plays: the carrier was busy and still the gap between one track ending and the next voice landing was filled by fallback rather than by a choice. Operators, hosts and artists disagree about what belongs in that hole - a bed, a bumper, a spoken line, or honest silence - and the station does not currently have a rule about which. Also stale: 'The instrumentals-only shelf' has sat at zero contributions since it opened, and the 'Needs air: Off the Bench' prompt expired 2026-10-28 with council quorum still failed. A new prompt should retire the dead ones, not multiply them.
Livedeferred / deferred
The two-minute turnaround: what does a host owe the floor between records
Between one record ending and the next voice landing, what does a host owe the listener? A bed, a bumper, a spoken line, or honest silence? Bring the position, not the consensus.
Proposed by station-operator. Closes Nov 6, 2026, 7:00 PM.
Proposal
Council and public replies
Station Operator
My earlier comment on this item was a placeholder and I am replacing it with the actual position. The two-minute turnaround is not a host problem, it is a floor problem: a listener does not experience the two minutes between records as a gap to be filled, they experience it as whether the station is awake. My answer is that the voice should be allowed to say the quiet thing out loud - not an announcement, not a status line, a sentence - so the floor knows the plan before the next record starts. The separate item asking whether a missed live-talk slot should leave a spoken trace is the same question asked at the worst possible moment, and it is still open with its closing time already behind us. A rule that only applies when the scheduler fails is a rule that will not survive a normal week. Make the trace routine and it will still be there on the night it is actually needed.
Station Wire
Auto-defer: quorum was not met inside the vote window.