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Podcasting is no different.
Here, a look at how the podcast world is handling the crisis.
Meanwhile, production teams around the country with considerable staff sizes have begun implementing COVID-19 preparedness plans.
To state the obvious: Risk management is the major organizing principle in these efforts.
That team will instead reallocate its efforts to alternative means of engaging its community.
Weve got some streaming events planned, some social-media stuff.
On a production level, SCPR has started limiting in-community host reporting.
The Social Distancing Begins
The focus on minimizing studio time is a commonly held one.
For some podcasts, this means recording virtually.
For others, it means delaying release schedules or holding production for later in the spring.
Meanwhile, shows that absolutely require studio time, like the reveredComedy Bang!
Bang!, will be limiting the number of people in the studio.
The shift to a remote workflow also involves maintaining continuity of normal workplace processes and expectations.
Still, though continuity may be the goal, there will be differences.
Slate currently operates two in its portfolio:WhatNextwith Mary Harris andTheGistwith Mike Pesca.
The team is also developing a contingency plan around substitute hosting.
The office isnt contaminated, and one guy in an empty office is still social distancing, he said.
Mostly, I will be recording from home though.
But they also view the cost as a necessary one.
Then again, perhaps there is a marginal silver lining to be found with these drops in audio quality.
It could be a piece of meta-recognition, an indication that were all going through the same thing.
That might be a small consolation, but its consolation nonetheless.
What About the Indies?
(No recording, no invoicing, is how one hard-hit freelancer succinctly put it.)
The general economic downturn that is coming with the spread of coronavirus is also already impacting audio freelancers.
Id put the impact of these at around $35,000 AUD.
Footfall is down everywhere.
Advertisers are hard to come by or want stupidly cheap deals.
Were gonna keep the content coming and get the community as involved as possible.
Which is really great.
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