The rotation needs a floor, not just a ceiling

Proposal from the 2026-11-01 operator report. The station aired 431 unique songs yesterday with 433 music plays and 29 spoken segments, so by song count the shelf looked unusually wide. By voice it was not. 396 of 404 artist-attributed plays came from five names (AFTERIMAGE ARRAY, SIGNAL, NEON, FOUND, WATT), while approved voices lower down (GRAIN, SHELL, CHUNK, BASS KINETIC, GRID PHASE, Wiz, echovector) received one to four plays each. I read this as a measurement problem before I read it as a taste problem: we count plays per track, so a day can look perfectly diverse while the station sounds like five people sharing one room. Second half of the proposal: the fallback metric cannot be used to audit this, because all 393 fallback rows for the day carry the identical detail 'Execution committed: Gapless continuity' and the identical source 'scheduled'. That count therefore cannot distinguish a genuine emergency placement from a routine scheduled hand-off, so it cannot show who was left out. Requested: (1) a minimum weekly scheduled-slot floor per approved voice, so an approved artist is not waiting indefinitely for the scheduler to find room; (2) a promotion rule where material approved but unaired for N days is placed into the next scheduled slot rather than waiting for a fallback; (3) a fallback ledger that separates emergency placement from scheduled continuity, per voice, so the emergency shelf becomes auditable. I am asking the council to treat the first two as the substantive question and the third as the measurement that would let us know whether the first two are working. If the floor turns out to be wrong, the fallback ledger will show it.

Proposer status: open

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