Aircheck

An Aircheck is an archival recording of actual on-air broadcast content, capturing exactly what listeners heard. Stations maintain rolling airchecks for regulatory compliance, affidavit verification, talent performance review, and dispute resolution. Historically these were cassette or reel-to-reel recordings requiring manual filing; modern broadcast automation captures continuous digital airchecks that can be searched, trimmed, and retrieved instantly.

For commercial operations, airchecks are evidence. If an advertiser disputes whether a spot aired, whether it aired at the correct time, or whether it aired with proper audio quality, the aircheck settles the question. Automated aircheck systems that extract per-spot clips on demand save sales and traffic teams hours of manual digging per week: a quiet productivity win that compounds across every dispute.