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 at endlessnoir.com never stops
- Scale — 30 cases aired across two seasons and counting; the bank runs two seasons ahead
- 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; licensed and public-domain jazz
- 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.
The tip line: listeners become canon. Anyone can send the station a tip at endlessnoir.com/tipline. The one human in the loop reads every tip, and the ones that fit are handed 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 writers' room on a production schedule can: turn an audience member's idea into aired canon.
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. The craft rules are 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, era by era, at /how.
Artwork & audio
Cover art: endlessnoir.com/cover.jpg (3000×3000). Wide banner: press-hero.jpg (2160×540; larger sizes on request). The 34-second station trailer:
Episode audio, transcripts, and the full case archive are free to quote and excerpt for coverage — the case files carry every transcript.
Listen
Apple Podcasts · Spotify · Amazon Music · YouTube · RSS · or the live broadcast, which never stops.
Follow the station
The wire, in bulletin form — every new case, announced in the station's own voice: Bluesky @endlessnoir.com · X @EndlessNoirAM.
Contact
The human behind the station is Chris Favero — creator, and the taste gate the machine answers to. He talks to press: [email protected]. Technically curious? Ask about the blueprints — the planner, the batched scene-writer, the quality gate, the append-only canon, the release machinery. He'll show you.