A standard radio sports show in Ghana should last for a duration of two hours. 30 minutes dedicated to foreign news, 30 minutes for local news, 40 minutes for analysis of the news and 20 minutes for listeners interaction(via phone calls and text messages). Any radio sports show below two hours fall off professionalism.
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A sports show below two hours on radio is classified unprofessional. One hour encroachment into the sports time made the sports crew abandon the sports show. The political show should have elapsed in its duration and should not have spilled into the sports time. The host of the political show was also part of the conflict.
Assumptions.
Proper notice could have been given to the sports crew a day before the day there will be a program overlap. Couldn 't a clear notice be sent to the sports crew when the political show was ongoing, because there was an earlier notice which stated that the overlapping will last 30 minutes but the overlapping lasted for one hour. The sports show was estimated from 10:00GMT to 12:00GMT, so what would have happened if the sports crew stayed at post uptill 12:00GMT before walking out.
Conclusion.
The sports crew should not have abandon the sports show though the time for the show was highly encroached. The sports crew could have used their limited time to engage the listeners and do something dynamic. The producers of the political show could have informed the sports crew a day before the show that there will be an overlap of time which will affect the sports show. On day, the first notice sent to the sports crew informing them of a 30 minutes encroachment was good but even that 30 minutes was overlapped meaning that the host of the political show was not been