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In the past, every Trump appearance, from debates to Morning Joe phoners, was carried across like the boardroom on The Apprentice.

The unrelenting schedule — radio interviews, TV sit-downs and phoners with publications as far away as the United Kingdom — sounds a lot like Clinton’s unforgiving campaign schedule.

The “phoner” is back, and no one in network TV news is too happy about it.

Except in news emergencies, producers usually avoid phoners because television is a visual medium — a face-to-face discussion between a newsmaker and questioner is preferable to a picture of an anchor listening to a disembodied voice.

He recalls “days of phoners, like: ‘Do you have a message for your fans in Brazil?’