Foundation
Foundation
What radio actually is, the four-layer map, the Radio Nemiers case study, and your first stream tonight.
Foundation is the door into this site. Read it top to bottom and you leave with a mental map of the station you're about to build, plus a working one-file stream of your own. You can hear yourself on the air tonight.
Everything in later sections is what you do AFTER this first-joy moment.
Pages in this section
- What is radio? Radio is not a playlist and not a podcast. It is a continuous, curated, shared signal with attitude.
- Anatomy of a station The four layers stacked into a loop. Library, programming, infrastructure, distribution. The map for the rest of the site.
- The Radio Nemiers case study ~5,000 tracks in active rotation, 500-600 new tracks/year, 50+ countries, 3-day rotation window, fully automated. The running example every later chapter cites.
- Your first stream in one evening BUTT into a Caster.fm endpoint. Your voice on a URL. One friend texts back "I hear you." The win moment before the rest of the theory.
Start with What is radio? and read forward. Or jump straight to first stream if you want to be on the air before sundown.