GANNET COUNTY / OCTOBER 1989

Dead Air, WZRD 88.7 FM: a radio tower broadcasting over a pine hillDEAD AIR WZRD 88.7 FM

23:52:00OFF AIROne town. One transmitter. Eight minutes until midnight.
Pixel-art radio studio with a mixing desk, cassette archive, reel-to-reel recorder and rain against a midnight window
WZRD · NIGHT OPERATIONS
Mara, the reporter, with a chestnut bob and burgundy plaid shirt
MARANEWS DESKReady to investigate
Ollie, the engineer, wearing glasses and radio headphones
OLLIEENGINEERINGReady to analyze
TRANSMITTER IDLE

Incoming lines

3 lines · 2 hold slots
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Routing console

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Evidence & recordings

Station floor

Field network

Tape archive