How to Build and Run a Radio Station
A practical guide to building and running a real radio station — internet, FM, or both. Field notes from Radio Nemiers.
This site is about building a real radio station. Not a playlist, not a podcast feed — a station. Internet-only, FM, or both — the underlying work is the same: signal flow, infrastructure, scheduling, programming.
Everything here comes out of running Radio Nemiers, a community radio station built and operated by Aigars Sukurs. The examples reference real choices, real failures, real fixes. Where a decision could legitimately go either way, both directions are named.
Radio Nemiers is a playground for automation — where I test ideas that would die in corporate radio. In big radio networks, new concepts can get stuck in meetings, rules, and "best practices". Here they can go live in days, not months.
— Aigars Sukurs, The Why
Read this as one engineer's path, not as gospel. Think, evaluate, ruminate before you copy. This site is not Radio Nemiers's documentation — it's the debt Radio Nemiers's builder pays back to the community that taught him.
Sections
Getting started
Common fumadocs MDX patterns — callouts, code blocks, tables, cards, steps.
LLM Access
Feed these docs to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or your own RAG pipeline.
How this site is organised
Note: This section will be populated as we fill the site with content