Studio

The Buzz Out Loud Studio is really used for multiple podcasts at CNET. BOL itself if recorded daily at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, although other shows are recorded before and after BOL on some days. Molly Wood once complained that there were crumbs left all over her console before a show. Apparently, the studio was outfitted with no expense spared, as Molly Wood once stated that amateur podcasters sometimes ask what their equipment is, and she feels that because they have a professionally designed studio, it isn't really fair to compare.

Hosts
The hosts of Buzz Out Loud, almost always Tom Merritt and Molly Wood sit on either side of a large table, not quite opposite one another. Each 'station' sports a IBM Monitor and keyboard, and a large boom mike. Each computer, running Windows XP in classic theme, has the days story queue, emails, and voice mails that had been arranged in preparation for the show. Both microphones feed into the producers area, off to the end of the table.

Producer
The producer, currently Jason Howell, previously Veronica Belmont, run the production table. The table has a microphone for the producer, and the other hosts, feeding into a mixer. From the mixer, the live audio goes into a Windows XP based PC, running the open source application Audacity. It is in this application that any editing is done, and the episode is essentially put together. Also included in the production setup are two telephones that can be used for dialing outside numbers, and having call-ins. During Molly's long hiatus for baby reasons, a new system was build into the studio for making call-ins far more clear.

Voice Mail
When a listener calls into Buzz Out Loud, they are greeted with a standard voice mail system. However, when they leave their message, the audio files are transferred to a server on the CNET system, and into a partition specifically for BOL voice mail. A member of the cast of the show can then summon these in preparation.