I'm working on a website that consists of three main parts: An internet radio station, an (irl) events listing and an archive of recording from both the radio broadcasts and events.
The Radio and Event components overlap in a lot of ways because some of the events are also broadcasted on the radio (but not all events are broadcasted and not all broadcasts are events)
Any of them have the option to be archived with audio recordings from the event or broadcast.
Radio broadcasts cannot overlaps as this is how DJs reserve time slot and see what times are available but Events can be at the same time as other events since they're often at different locations.
What i'm stuck on is whether it would be best to have one post type for both (with booleans such as isBroadcast and isEvent and all necessary fields for both types) or should i have separate DB tables and models for each.
Such as
Broadcasts: Title, date/time, description, image, audio_streaming_url, video_streming_url
Events: Title, date/time, description, image, venue, price
or just
Post: Title, date/time, description, image, isEvent, isBroadcast, streaming_url, video_streaming_url, venue, price
Having Broadcasts and Events the same as the Database table/Model seems easiest for the instances when the post is both a Broadcast and Event and also easier for Archiving because i could simply create archive post with post_id as a field.
Such as
Archive: Post_id, soundcloud_link, youtube_url, additional_text
But having a single post type would make it confusing in regards to reserving time slots for the radio broadcasts since the Events can overlap but the radio broadcasts cannot.
Or is this pointless to think too much about as i'm sure either way would work?