Your station deserves a website
that looks like a station.

The schedule is out of date because updating it means editing a table. The presenter who left last year is still on the “meet the team” page. It looks wrong on a phone. And the one person who knew how to change it has moved away.

A radio station’s website has one job no ordinary website builder does: it has to know what is on air right now. Everything here is built round that.

• Live schedule that runs itself
• A player on every page that keeps going as they browse
• Podcasts, in a feed the directories actually accept
• Your own domain, pointed at us
• Audience figures you can put in a rate card
• No cookies, no trackers, nothing sold

Every station gets asked this. By a funder, by a sponsor, by the committee, and by the presenter who wants to know if anyone is out there. Most stations answer with a guess.

We read the listener count straight off your stream, every two minutes, and add it up. That counts everybody — in cars, on smart speakers, in apps, on your website — not just people who happened to press play on a web page.

• Which presenters hold an audience. Every measured hour pooled by the person who was on air, so somebody with a weekday show and a Saturday one counts once, as themselves. It is the first time most stations have ever seen that number — and the one every presenter asks for.
• Which times of day are your biggest, said in words: your biggest three hours are 08:00 to 11:00, and the busiest single hour is 09:00. That is the line that goes on a rate card, and you should not have to read it off a heat map.
• Which programmes people actually listen to, because we match every hour to your schedule. Breakfast holds two hundred and the afternoon holds ninety, and now you know
• Listening hours, the week and the month — the same measure the industry uses, and the number a funding form asks for
• The whole week, hour by hour, for when a Sunday afternoon turns out to be quietly enormous

And we tell you what we cannot see. A stream gives a headcount, not a guest list, so we report listening sessions and say plainly that a regular listener is several of them. We would rather give you a number you can defend than one that falls apart in front of a funder. If your host does not publish a listener count at all — Live365 and a few others — we say so on the screen rather than showing you a zero.

The first question we ask a new station isn’t about colours or layouts. It’s “have you got a website already?” — because if you have, the worst part of moving is typing it all in again.

So we read it. Your presenters, your shows, your schedule, your contact details, your social links. It takes about fifteen seconds, and you watch it work rather than staring at a blank screen.

Then you get a review page: everything we found, in plain words, with where each thing came from, and a tick against each one.

• Nothing is written to your site until you submit that form. That is the whole reason the feature is safe to offer
• It only ever fills empty fields — it never overwrites anything you have already typed, and never deletes
• Import twice by accident and you get the same site, not two of everything
• If we can’t find something, we say so. We never invent a description for a show to fill a gap

There is no separate “website software” to learn. Sign in, open your own site, and everything you are allowed to change has a small pencil on it. Click one and the right form slides in over the page.

• You are looking at the thing you are changing while you change it
• Saving updates the page underneath without reloading, so the music never stops
• A listener’s page has no bar, no pencils and no trace that any of it exists
• Paste straight from Word or Google Docs — the mess is stripped, the bold and links survive
• Photos are resized for you, so a 6MB phone snap doesn’t slow your homepage down

Your schedule drives everything: who is on air now, who is up next, today’s running order, the full week’s page, and the show artwork in the player.

• Type 7am or 19:30 — whichever you actually say
• It tells you where the gaps are, and fills them in one click
• A gap is why “on air now” goes blank at 3am. We refuse to let you leave one
• Bank holidays and one-off days replace the normal grid for that date, then put themselves back
• Times are your station’s local time, wherever your listeners are

Most stations either don’t offer listen again, or somebody spends their Sunday cutting up a long recording and naming files. There is nothing to set up here and nothing to upload.

You have already told us your schedule. So we record each programme as it goes out, start to finish, and put it on your site under the show it belongs to.

• One recording per programme — not one long file chopped up afterwards, so a glitch costs you one show rather than the day
• It starts a few seconds early and runs a little past the end, so a clock that is slightly out never clips the first word
• Anything under ten minutes is skipped — that is a junction, not a programme
• Your last seven days, sweeping away behind itself

Why seven days and not an archive. A broadcast licence covers transmitting. Keeping the same programme up afterwards is a separate right, and the standard terms put the window at thirty days. Seven is comfortably inside it, is what a listener actually wants — “I missed Tuesday” — and costs a fraction of the disk.

Already keep your listen again on Mixcloud? Point us at it and we put a Listen again on Mixcloud button at the top of the page instead.

Somebody is listening on your website and misses the thing they were waiting for — the competition answer, the travel, the name of the record. On every other station’s site, that is gone.

On yours they drag the bar back and hear it.

Because we are already recording the programme that is on air, the last hour of your output is sitting there ready. The player has a slider across it from the moment the page loads — drag it, or press back thirty seconds, and they are listening from then. When they catch up with themselves, they are back on the live stream without pressing anything.

• Rewind as far as the start of the programme that is on now
• Thirty seconds back and forward, for the last bit of hunting
• It tells them the time of day as well as how far back — nobody thinks “one hour thirty-two minutes in”, they think “the bit around half four”
• Works on a phone, and keeps playing while they carry on reading your site

Nothing to set up. If listen again is on, this is on.

Every page is built for a small screen first, and the player stays at the bottom of it — so somebody can start listening, then read your news, your schedule and your presenters without the audio stopping once.

• Nothing to switch on, and no separate mobile site to keep in step
• The player keeps going while they move around the site
• Works on the lock screen, with your station name and artwork
• Tested at 360px, because that is what a cheap Android actually is

There is no jargon anywhere you can see it. No slugs, no endpoints, no JSON, no IDs. Saving tells you what it did — “your schedule now covers the whole week”, not “OK”.

• Your dashboard opens with the one button worth pressing, not four numbers
• Four roles: owner, administrator, editor, presenter. A presenter can only touch their own things
• Nobody is ever shown a button that will then refuse them
• Deleting asks first, and says what will go with it

Forty-six topics in plain English, searchable from the top of every screen. Type “no pencils” or “stream not playing” and it finds the answer, not a list of everything containing the word “stream”.

• A little ? next to anything worth a sentence, everywhere in the system
• Every explanation says why, not only how
• Written by the people who built it, and kept in the same file as the software

Page views tell a station manager almost nothing. What you need to know is whether people pressed play, how long they stayed, which presenter gets read about and which sponsor got clicked — because those are the numbers somebody will actually ask you for.