AM has always been dominated by conservative voices but its nearly as bad as flipping on Fox News now. Left/Right, these people are so blindingly partisan that to them there physically is no other way
We live in times where the poorest and most uneducated among us truly believe career, multimillionaire politicians actually have their best interest in mind
Hey folks, I wanted to share a a very big update on RadioStar, and thank you so much for all the support till now
Some of you might already be aware of the app from my earlier posts. First, thanks to the mods for encouraging tools and apps like this.
RadioStar started as a small passion project because I wanted to make the iPhone feel like a real radio again. Not a playlist app, not another algorithm feed, but something you turn on, tune, and discover.
The first version had a smaller curated list of stations. With v2.0, the app has grown a lot.
You can now pick a region like North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Oceania, then long press the region to choose a specific country. So if you pick Latin America and choose Argentina, the dial fills with tango, cumbia, rock nacional, and folklore stations. Pick Japan and you get J-Pop, City Pop, Enka, and traditional stations. Pick Nigeria and you get Afrobeats, Highlife, and local gospel. Every country has its own curated mix of around 65 stations.
The app now has 54 countries, 7 regions, and 3,516 curated stations.
What I really love is that the dial can feel different depending on where you are tuned. One moment you are listening to Spanish stations from Argentina, then Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, or Tamil stations from India, then Japanese stations, then Vietnamese stations, then something completely different from another part of the world.
It honestly made me realize again how much radio still connects people. Every country has its own sound, its own rhythm, its own local voices. You are not just picking a station. You are stepping into a small piece of someone else's day.
I also added two new radio skins.
One is an emergency-style yellow pocket radio with a warm amber display.
The other is a pocket digital radio with a green LCD display, auto-scan, station name display, and sleep timer. One small detail I'm proud of, the battery icon on the LCD actually reflects your real iPhone battery. Completely unnecessary. But it makes the whole thing feel like a real little device inside your phone and not just an app.
The whole spirit is simple: put the radio on a stand, keep working, cooking, studying, or relaxing, and let real stations from around the world play in the background.
The free version gives you a good feel for what RadioStar is about. You get the Classic Transistor skin with two finishes, North America and Worldwide regions, the US country filter which adds about 35 bonus stations on top of the default mix, two station presets, a sleep timer, and the live activity on your lock screen. No ads, no tracking, no accounts. It's a real radio experience out of the box without paying anything.
If you want to go deeper, premium unlocks all five radio skins, all 54 countries with 3,516 stations, all seven regions, six presets, extended sleep timers, and GPS-based local broadcast tuning. It's a one-time purchase at $4.99 right now. No subscriptions, just pay once and you have everything forever including all future updates. The price will go up a bit next month as the app keeps growing.
I haven't added custom station URLs yet because I want every station to be verified and reliable. But I know I'm not an expert in every country or every language. If there is a great station from your country that should be included, please message me. You know your local radio better than I do, and I would genuinely love suggestions.
A lot of Reddit communities have helped me with downloads, feedback, and support, and I really appreciate that. What started as a passion project is slowly turning into the "radio device inside the iPhone" that I always imagined.
Thanks for checking it out, and if you try v2.0, I'd love to hear what countries or stations you end up tuning into.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radiostar-real-radio/id6762392786
Help us take jazz radio into the next decade! KCCK-FM, Iowa’s Jazz Station in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has a rare opening for an Operations Director. The successful candidate will have a strong background in on-air work, broadcast audio applications and platforms, (particularly the ENCO system), broadcast operations, and FCC regs. If you believe broadcast radio is still a great place to hear and play music and have a passion for jazz and blues music, please apply.
This is a full-time, exempt position with attractive benefits. The position may involve working weekends, early mornings and/or evenings for station events or to assist in the event of broadcast or system issues.
Application Link: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/kirkwoodcc/jobs/5339053/operations-director-kcck
On the heels of the California Kars 4 Kids ad ban, Canada's public broadcaster CBC has now dropped the Canadian version Kars4Kids.ca due to their deceptive practices. Hopefully other broadcasters will follow suit!
Article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cbc-kars4kids-ads-pulled-9.7204937
Hello, I was going to go with Live365 to start an internet radio station because they handle all of the PROs, but I am now wondering difficult it is to attain these licenses on your own? It seems like there might be better services out there if I’m willing to put the work in to attain the licensing.
I think it'd be dope to host my own radio station, how much would it actually cost? It would probably need to run like a 5 mile radius
This announcement will be made on Wednesday, but sharing this news early here:
The Museum of Broadcast Communications announced today the selection of eight new inductees into the RADIO HALL OF FAME for 2026. The 2026 Radio Hall of Fame Inductees will be honored at the in-person 2026 Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
The 2026 Radio Hall of Fame inductees include:
Six inductees were determined by a voting participant panel comprised of more than 950 industry professionals invited to cast votes and two inductees were voted on by the Radio Hall of Fame 2026 Nominating Committee. The confidential ballot was conducted by Votem.com and overseen by Miller Kaplan’s Andrew Rosen.
Kraig Kitchin, Co-Chair of the Radio Hall of Fame, said: “Our congratulations to each of our 2026 Inductees, on this well-deserved recognition. Each of these inductees has performed at the highest levels for a sustained period of time to make our industry that much more impactful to listeners and advertisers as a result. I’m thrilled to see them properly recognized by this announcement and the forthcoming Induction ceremony this October. Thank you to our 2026 Nominating Committee and to the hundreds of voting panel participants for confirming our 2026 Class of Inductees.”
The Radio Hall of Fame was founded by the Emerson Radio Corporation in 1988. The Museum of Broadcast Communications took over operations of the Hall in 1991.
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A while back I came to this subreddit looking for an online radio platform. Someone mentioned Anywair.online it's new, it's rough around the edges, it's missing a lot of things. But something about it felt right. So I built a station on it.
It's called **One Earth Radio: Where the world introduces itself to itself.**
I've never been on air before in my life.
But this Saturday at 6PM EST I'm going live for the first time just to introduce what this station is about and hear from whoever shows up.
If you're curious, come and see me build from nothing
here is the link: https://anywair.online/on-earth-radioi
📻 Anywair.online — search *One Earth Radio*
📅 Saturday | 6PM EST
Hey everyone — I recently moved to Brooklyn soon and looking to break further into NYC radio traffic coordination/audio/media work. It’s been tough applying to jobs constantly and I feel like I must be doing something wrong. I currently work as a traffic manager remotely for a radio company but I’m looking to take the next step in my career. I have experience in audio production, editing, content creation, and creative/media production, and I’m interested in radio, podcasting, production assistant, or other creative audio roles.
Mostly looking for advice on:
* best places to find these jobs beyond LinkedIn/Indeed
* NYC groups/communities worth joining
* good companies/studios to keep an eye on
Would appreciate any advice or connections. Thanks!
Hello, I read that this is a community focused on FM/AM, but I don’t know where else to ask questions related to internet radio broadcasting, so I figured I’d shoot my shot here.
Has anyone ever used Live365? I’ve been thinking about getting into internet radio as a hobby and was curious if anyone has used Live365 and if they liked it or disliked it and why.
*Edit: Sorry I should have specified that I am going to try to start my own broadcast, not actually listen to them. I already listen to broadcasts around the world and I want to get involved with my own station eventually.
Okay, so that title is a little more wacky than what I'm actually looking for...
As a kid, I used to love scanning the air waves on my grandpa's 1940's tube radio. Hearing the the beeps and blurps from space and the voices speaking in languages I didn't know existed as I turned the knob ever so slowly, was intoxicating.
Fast-forward to present day -- I'd like to try and capture a similar experience, but have zero idea where to start! I have the typical AM/FM radio, but am looking for a radio or receiver that picks up as broad a spectrum of waves as possible.
I also understand, at current, I don't have a great concept of wave lengths at this point, but I want to jump into trying things out ASAP.
TL;DR
Looking for help finding a good starting off point for a novice wanting to get started with listening to SW/LW and ham radio if possible (ideally, analog or digital but I want something that doesn't involve the internet.) Thanks so much for your time!
Hi Morse Coders and Radio Enthusiasts,
I'm a college student assigned to write a short story over the summer. I've taken an interest into the phenomenon of amalgam metal fillings catching signals from high-powered AM radio stations. That led me on a rabbit-hole to researching Morse Code, and I plan to incorporate it into my story. Unfortunately, there's not many research materials on Morse Code, and I'm a little too busy doing errands to watch a bunch of Youtube videos, so I have a list of questions. Any answers or directions to answers are greatly appreciated.
Note: I have sparingly tried A.I. for answers, but I'm against using generative A.I. and the answers weren't super helpful. All other searches were through Google.
Questions:
I know this was a very long list of questions. I'm not insane, I just get overly curious about topics. It is a beautiful 95 degree summer day and I am currently unemployed, so I have nothing better to do.
Thanks all!
So I'm trying to build this radio and first of all, I know it looks like a nightmare to some people who have actual experience in this field but I loosely followed this diagram that I found on a PDF that I got from a YouTube video that came up on my fyp page. and I ripped this old speaker out of this tablet, and I don't know if it does not have enough power to produce sound or if the stuff isn't hooked up right? I didn't have much expectation for it took work right the First try, so I'm turning to Reddit for help. UPDATE: apparently where the battery was placed caused a short circuit and almost burnt down my desk along with my house =/ i think I should do more research before I do these type of things
As far as I know, a radio station will use a music scheduler, a software program that uses a rule-based system to schedule the music. This is the program that generates the music logs (music playlists).
The log is then fed into a radio automation system, which plays out the content based on what is in the log. The easiest way to do this is by playing out everything in a sequential order.
OK, now what would happen if the current playlist were to run out? Those things are not infinite, right?
I assume a few things:
Something I've seen happen before on a radio station that has a few short 6-hour-long playlists that never ever changes. If one of these playlist is loaded it would immediately start over again, right after it comes to an end (No silence or pause), replaying the exact same content in the exact same order (No this was not an anomaly or one time occurance). I assume this would continue on forever until it is interrupted.
Simply, when one playlist is over, another one takes over. It's radio automation, after all and I would assume that you can even have playlists scheduled to play at specific times. Example: Automatically load X playlist at midnight.
I have heard from multiple sources that our high school had an AM station around the 1940s. I cannot find anything official on it, and the school district historian does not know of any records.
I tried the historical license search at the FCC site (ULS), and came up empty. I don't even know for certain this was an official station, but I do have the calls - WMHS. This was Middletown High School, in Middletown, PA. We currently do have an OTA FM station, WMSS (I graduated a couple of decades ago, and now engineer the station).
Any ideas on other resources to try to find out any information? The local paper shut down a couple of years ago, there might be some archives iin the local library - I plan to visit them to see. Last time I had to do that, it was all on Microfiche. Which was the norm at the time for archival of print media.
Came across these two FM transmitters in my University's electronics supply closet. They are marketed for local FM transmission, like small festivals and such, but they appear to be lacking FCC IDs. Since they are locked to FM broadcast frequencies, our ham radio club can't really use them.
Thinking of throwing them away to prevent accidental, troublesome use by curious students.
Spun up a personal radio station that's been playing Punjabi music non-stop — Sidhu, Diljit, Sikander Kahlon, AP Dhillon, classics, the lot. It's one live stream, not a playlist, so everyone tuning in hears the same track at the same time. Properly like radio.
The twist: there's an AI DJ that picks the next track, talks between songs (time, weather, intros), and you can request any song in plain language, just type the artist or song name in the request box and it'll find it in the library and queue it up.
🎧 Listen: https://radio.klair.co/listen
No signup, no app, just open the link. Works on phone too — lock screen controls and everything.
Drop a request when you're on, would love to see what the community throws at it. Also genuinely curious which tracks you think have to be in a Punjabi station's rotation — I'll add anything missing.
