The Hitchhiker's Guide to an Active Archive/Content Protocol

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Play transition jingle: move_2.mp3

Protocoller: Initiate Content Protocol. 

Start Background Music

BACKGROUND MUSIC GOES HERE
Protocoller: Announce the TIME.
Performer: It is [TIME] and you're tuned in to Protocols for an Active Archive on Radio Worm. We're now going to listen to... What are we going to listen to?
Protocoller: Check the Ether for activity.

If there are no clear instructions

Navigator: I'm not reading any clear instructions. 
Protocoller: We have to change channels.
Performer: Why?
Protocoller: We have to stay on Protocol. 
Performer: But there's nothing we can do!
Navigator: Should we re-establish the communicative protocol?
Protocoller: Re-establish communicative protocol.
Protocoller: Provide Ground Control with channels.
Navigator: Channel switch protocol has been posted in the pad. Instructions: 
Move to Channel up
Move to Channel down
Stay on the same Channel
Performer: Ground control, where do we go?
Have we received any instructions? The delay to ground is about 20 seconds
 
  If no instructions are received
  Performer: Oh no, they must not understand that we'll stay in this loop unless someone writes a decision in the pad
  If instructions are received
  Navigator: Instructions are received, thank you Ground Control
  Performer: Thank you Ground Control. Protocoller, let's switch the channel now
  Protocoller: Switching the channel...Switching the channel...Switching the channel...
switch channel music


If there are clear instructions on what channel should be played:

Navigator: We are moving channels
moving channel music
If we move up a channel
  Navigator: Moving up a channel. Redirect to Mic Test

If we stay on the same channel
  Navigator: Staying on the same channel.
  Protocoller: Present the new content
  Performer: You will now be listening to The art of asking your boss for a raise by George Perec, a text written in 1968. High attention is required due to a lack of punctuation and presence of looping thoughts.
If we move down a channel
  Navigator: Staying on the same channel.
  Protocoller: Present the new content
  Performer: CONTENT MICHAEL GAVE US STILL NEED AN INTRO