Which worked pretty well most of the time. Local stations just needed to keep their assets fresh and pay attention to the announcer schedule updates from the network.
With modern tech, I don't think I could tell that iHeart stations were running separate branding from the topical jock break unless I knew that a particular DJ was not local.
when i ran a station that programmed america’s best music, we used one of their air talent for everything. the stabs onto breaks, out of breaks, return/re join liners, in between song imaging, legal ids and general imaging.
made it so much easier to set up the network
the network PD at the time said it was the smoothest launch of the format he’d ever heard because we ran it off Erin studio for a week before we put it on the air to catch all the bugs and we caught several
and we got a letter, maybe 69 months into that switch from a listener who said they really appreciated all the big name talented talent that the owner hired for little old St. Mary’s Pennsylvania