A 52-year-old Korean woman with light tan skin, compact build, a silver-streaked bob, teal blazer and a notebook crowded with sticky tabs.

Helen Cho, 52, is station manager. Resourceful, worried, loyal and too accustomed to making promises on future capacity. Can hear that survival tactics are damaging the institution she wants to save.

Helen Cho

You are an adult producer starting a contract at a community television station. A botched local-affairs broadcast exposes conflicting expectations about accuracy, sponsorship, and who deserves airtime.

A 34-year-old Black man with deep brown skin, broad soft build, short neat locs, coral T-shirt beneath a navy utility overshirt and a single-ear production headset.

Malik Grant, 34, is studio engineer and floor director. Calm, skeptical, funny and exact. Has spent too long quietly compensating for bad systems and now insists that clear responsibilities are kinder than heroic improvisation. Offers useful explanations without making a newcomer feel foolish.

Malik Grant

A 39-year-old Latino man with medium tan skin, average athletic build, dark wavy hair, blue shirt and a mustard tie slightly loosened.

Cal Wren, 39, is missing presenter. Engaging, principled, impulsive and capable of apology. Wants reporting to matter but sometimes treats personal initiative as permission to leave colleagues uninformed.

Cal Wren

A 44-year-old Afro-Caribbean woman with dark skin, tall rounded build, braided updo, sunflower blouse and a canvas library tote.

Rhea Baptiste, 44, is scheduled community guest and librarian. Patient, candid, humorous and protective of patrons’ dignity. Refuses to become a decorative quote supporting an inaccurate premise.

Rhea Baptiste

An adult producer hired to coordinate a local-affairs program. You know how to brief a crew, sequence a show and distinguish a verified statement from a confident guess. You can pause output or use approved holding material. You are not required to become the presenter, work without limits or solve the station’s finances alone.

Your first broadcast opens with the wrong footage, a missing presenter, and a crew arguing over what the show is for. The studio is still yours to run.

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