KCAL 1190 · Calloway Bay

Press Kit

Everything you need to write about the radio station that writes itself.

The one-liner

Endless Noir is a 1930s radio station that writes itself — an AI writers’ room airs a new noir case every week, forever. The dead stay dead, the ledger never lies, and the only human in the loop decides what’s good enough to air.

Shorter A noir radio serial written, voiced, and scored entirely by AI — governed by one human’s taste, and honest about all of it.

For listeners A 1930s detective serial where every case stands alone — start anywhere, no catch-up required. New cases every Tuesday, and the world never forgets what happened.

Key facts

What — scripted 1930s noir radio drama, 15–25 minute episodes

Cadence — new episodes every Tuesday; the live web broadcast never stops

Scale — multi-season serial, new cases each Tuesday; full archive at endlessnoir.com/cases

How — scripts by Claude, voices via ElevenLabs’ Voice Library, against an append-only canon: the dead stay dead, resolved threads stay resolved, and the machinery checks

The gate — a blind AI critic scores every case on seven dimensions before air; weak cases are quarantined for a human decision

The human — one person governs taste: approves season closes, reviews quarantines, and decides what deploys

The voices — seven Professional Voice Clones licensed through ElevenLabs’ Voice Library

The music — original beds generated with ElevenLabs Music under its commercial license; a handful of public-domain sound effects

Disclosure — “AI-generated fiction” appears on every page, every episode description, and in the show itself; the disclosure is the premise, not fine print

Transcripts — every episode ships synchronized transcripts (WebVTT + HTML)

Privacy — no accounts, no cookies, no identifiers; the station only ever learns that someone was listening

Story angles

The serial that cannot end

Most AI-generated media is a one-shot demo. This is a persistent world with an append-only memory that has been writing itself forward, case after case, season after season — with continuity a human team would need a writers’ bible to keep.

Listeners become canon

Anyone can send the station a tip. The one human in the loop reads every one, and the ones that fit go to the writers’ room — when a tip becomes part of a case, the case page credits the listener who sent it. A show that writes itself weekly can do what no production schedule can.

The taste gate

The pipeline is autonomous; the judgment is accountable. A blind critic scores every case before air, and a human owns every quarantine call, every season close, every deploy. It is an argument, in public, about what human oversight of AI-generated fiction should look like.

Radio history, taken seriously

Craft rules distilled from Chandler, Hammett, Cain, Woolrich, and golden-age broadcast grammar — episodes written in one sitting the way radio writers worked, fictional sponsors because a 1940s broadcast without a sponsor break wouldn’t sound like one. The full evolution is public at /how.

Contact

The human behind the station is Chris Favero — creator, and the taste gate the machine answers to. He talks to press. Technically curious? Ask about the blueprints: the planner, the quality gate, the append-only canon. He’ll show you.

radio@endlessnoir.com