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Media Programming Directors
Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in preparation of radio or television station program schedules and programs, such as sports or news.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Operate and maintain on-air and production audio equipment.Mostly human for now
- 02Check completed program logs for accuracy and conformance with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and regulations and resolve program log inaccuracies.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Read news, read or record public service and promotional announcements, or perform other on-air duties.AI could speed this up a lot
- 04Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in broadcast news, sports, or programming.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Monitor and review programming to ensure that schedules are met, guidelines are adhered to, and performances are of adequate quality.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prepare copy and edit tape so that material is ready for broadcasting.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Coordinate activities between departments, such as news and programming.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Perform personnel duties, such as hiring staff and evaluating work performance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Establish work schedules and assign work to staff members.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Develop promotions for current programs and specials.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss9%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
49%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 57% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Operate and maintain on-air and production audio equipment.