Presenting herself as the WENN radio contest winner, Betty Roberts (Amanda Naughton) arrives in Pittsburgh from Elkhart, Indiana and is immediately thrust into the everyday chaos of the small 1940's radio station. The station manager, Victor Comstock, (John Bedford Lloyd) informs her that her prize is to serve as an unpaid intern, which apparently will consist of acting as gofer and typing for the station's inebriated writer, Mr. Gianetti (Peter Maloney). When Gianetti keels over from a heart attack, Betty is pressed into service and manages to save the unfinished script currently on air by creative use of "radio silence." Comstock offers her Gianetti's job, which she gladly accepts.