How long does it take to produce and present Folkstage and The Midnight Special?
• Each one-hour live Folkstage concert requires about 14-15 hours of my time. Since I live a long way from WFMT, it is a minimum 2.5 hour commute each way. I leave home at noon and arrive home at midnight. If I lived next door to WFMT, it would still require about 5.5 hours for each live concert. Aside from the time on Saturday, it can take anywhere from one-hour to five-hours to negotiate with, book and process the paperwork for an artist performing on Folkstage. After each live Folkstage concert I spend 2-4 hours editing and preparing the performance for the WFMT on-line archive and Sirius/XM satellite radio, as well as archiving it for the WFMT library. Pre-recorded Folkstage concerts taken from the archives for broadcast require 1-3 hours to produce depending upon how recently the recording was made. Many older recordings were never edited and may require noise reduction and/or level adjustments to make them appropriate for broadcast. The Midnight Special requires 16-hours per prog
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