From the moment they get in until some 10 hours later when their shifts are over, the anchors become local-news chameleons, reading script after script after script for each market across the country, recording them all digitally, until the news for the day is done. The day is broken down...
They were very much aware. Edgar sort of wrote the script around each song. It wasn’t a case of him writing the script and then coming up with the music choices. With the first draft of the script, he had the music choices buttoned down, and [the licenses] cleared well in advance ...