Editing IHeartMedia (section)

===Production of local programming===
iHeartMedia uses the [[Radio Computing Services|RCS Nex-Gen]] automation system throughout their properties. Like most contemporary automation systems, Nex-Gen allows a DJ from anywhere in the country to sound as if he or she is broadcasting from anywhere else in the country, on any other station.<ref name="booz">{{Cite news |first=Mark |last=Washburn |work=[[The Charlotte Observer]] |title=The voice of Charlotte... and Huntsville... and Jackson... |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8847612_ITM |page=1H |date=May 26, 2002 |access-date=November 25, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111223633/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8847612_ITM |archive-date=January 11, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> A technological outgrowth of earlier, tape-based automation systems dating back to the 1960s, this method—known as [[voice-tracking]]—allows for smaller market stations to be partially or completely staffed by "cyber-jocks" who may never have visited the town from which they are broadcasting. This practice may also result in local on-air positions being reduced or eliminated. It has been stated that iHeartMedia maintains a majority of its staff in hourly-paid, part-time positions. Beginning in the early 2020s, many of its stations have added a disclaimer with their [[station identification]] sequence noting that the voicetracked content is pre-recorded.