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Summary: PRPD 2002 Iron Chef Geo Beach "Reinventing the Station Break"
 

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This is a station break from WKSU. In addition to the weather, underwriters-- the standard station break fare--Geo Beach offers some interesting historical facts that tie in nicely with the station's classical music identity. I particularly like hearing the school cafeteria menu. It's details like these that do give station breaks some flavor and sense of place. It's also quite polished so you don't feel that you have downgraded from listening to NPR to the local station, which is hard to do. It's difficult for many lcal NPR stations to keep the quality consistent when switching from local to national public radio.

My understanding is that this is to serve as a model for other stations. If there are program directors o who want to reinvent their station breaks than consider turning to this for inspiration.