Volunteer churn versus technical setup.
Every departure takes setup knowledge with it. If broadcasting needs a manual, the mission stalls.
Community radio
Community radio stations — affordable, reliable, built for the mission.
Built by communities. Run by volunteers, funded by bake sales — your platform shouldn’t eat the budget or need an engineer on call.
- Volunteer-friendly studio
- AutoDJ safety net
- Stats for grant reports
Three problems every operator here already knows.
The budget is the bake sale.
Enterprise radio platforms cost more than the station raises. Community radio needs community pricing.
Self-hosted Icecast, 3am outages.
The donated server dies on a holiday weekend and the one person with SSH keys is camping.
Built to slot straight into how you already run.
A studio any volunteer can drive
Browser, mic, Go live. New volunteers broadcast on day one, not week six.
AutoDJ never lets you go silent
Missed slot? AutoDJ fills it from rotation. The station stays on air even when people can’t.
Flat, honest pricing
$15/month. No listener-hour surprises, no bandwidth bills, no donated-server anxiety.
Numbers your funders want
Listener stats, exportable — for grant applications and council reports.
In practice
Nineteen volunteers, zero engineers.
Hosts sign in from home or the studio corner of the library. When the Tuesday host misses their slot, AutoDJ covers without a gap. The annual grant report pulls listener numbers from the dashboard in one export — no one SSH’d into anything all year.
Illustrative scenario — customer case study coming soon. Have a story to tell? Get in touch
19volunteer hosts, all self-serve
$15a month, flat
03am server callouts
Where most community stations start.
Starter
$15/station/mo
The plan community stations start on — live broadcasting, AutoDJ, a public station page, and listener stats. Grow to Pro when the audience does.
- 200 listener slots
- 192 kbps streaming
- 5 GB audio storage
- AutoDJ + rotation clocks + scheduling
- Playlists + media library
- Public station page + live chat
- Listener analytics + play history
- Embed playerComing soon
Every plan powers one station. Run more stations — each gets its own plan.
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Asked on nearly every call.
Can volunteers with no training broadcast?
Yes — the studio is a browser page. If they can make a video call, they can host a show.
What stats can we show funders?
Listener counts, geography, and play history per show — the numbers grant applications ask for.
Can listeners donate?
Yes — embed donation links (PayPal, GoFundMe, or your own) in the player and station page. We don’t take a cut.
How reliable is it really?
Redundant streaming infrastructure with monitored uptime — no donated hardware, no single volunteer holding the keys.
Can we migrate from AzuraCast or a self-hosted Icecast?
Yes — we import your library and schedule, and help transition your stream URL so listeners follow automatically.
Holding a community FM license?
See how terrestrial stations simulcast online without new hardware.
Ready when you are
Keep the mission on air.
14-day free trial, no credit card. Your next volunteer can be live this week.
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