Keep daily program logs to provide information on all elements aired during broadcast, such as musical selections and station promotions.

“Keep daily program logs to provide information on all elements aired during broadcast, such as musical selections and station promotions.” is a supplemental task performed by Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys. Among the occupation's 24 rated tasks, workers place it 17th by importance (#8 most important). About 68% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Maintain operational records. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Read news flashes to inform audiences of important events. · importance 4.6
• Announce musical selections, station breaks, commercials, or public service information, and accept requests from listening audience. · importance 4.6
• Operate control consoles. · importance 4.5
• Identify stations, and introduce or close shows, ad-libbing or using memorized or read scripts. · importance 4.5
• Study background information to prepare for programs or interviews. · importance 4.4
• Prepare and deliver news, sports, or weather reports, gathering and rewriting material so that it will convey required information and fit specific time slots. · importance 4.4
• Record commercials for later broadcast. · importance 4.3
• Develop story lines for broadcasts. · importance 4.2
• Select program content, in conjunction with producers and assistants, based on factors such as program specialties, audience tastes, or requests from the public. · importance 4.1
• Write and edit video and scripts for broadcasts. · importance 4.0
• Interview show guests about their lives, their work, or topics of current interest. · importance 4.0
• Maintain organization of the music library. · importance 4.0
• Comment on music and other matters, such as weather or traffic conditions. · importance 3.9
• Make promotional appearances at public or private events to represent their employers. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-3936,
  title  = {Keep daily program logs to provide information on all elements aired during broadcast, such as musical selections and station promotions.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-3936}
}