On air for community radio

More than just a play button.

A listener app branded as your station's own, plus the Control Room™ content management system, built for stations with more passion than money.

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No self-serve checkout.
We onboard every station personally, so it actually gets used.

The Lakes Radio app Recently Played screen listing recently broadcast songs with album art

The Lakes Radio listener app showing the Listen Live screen with a custom station wallpaper

What it is

A real app for your listeners. More for your station.

Every station starts with Nuclear Core™, the starter app: Listen Live, Recently Played, and an Information page you sort the way the moment demands (manually, by date, or by priority when there's breaking news). Your listeners download it branded for your station; you run all of it from Control Room™, a web portal built to be managed by anyone, even the technically reluctant volunteer. You get Multiple Opportunities to Reach Everyone (M.O.R.E.)

Nuclear Core Listen Live screen — Listen LiveTap to enlarge

Nuclear Core Recently Played screen — Recently PlayedTap to enlarge

Nuclear Core Information page with station stories — Information pageTap to enlarge

IncludedEverything above ships in Nuclear Core™,
the foundation every station starts with (before add-ons).

Live streaming

Your station's live feed, front and center, compatible with the major streaming services you already use.

Your content

News, events, shows, hosts, created and updated anytime, with no app rebuild and no developer.

Staff with roles

Role-based access means each volunteer touches only what you've authorized. No staff? One person can run all of it.

The Lakes Radio Listen Live screen with custom wallpaper and navigation cards

Optional add-on

The Lakes Radio local weather page with animated icons and National Weather Service data

The Lakes Radio — a live station build · weather page shown is an optional upgrade

The listener app

Branded as theirs, down to the duck.

Only two things are fixed per station: the logo and the name. Everything else is yours and changeable, including a rotating wallpaper of one to five of your own photos, and navigation cards you can skin or leave as the friendly default.

Optional add-ons like a local weather page, with animated conditions straight from the National Weather Service
Recently Played, shows, events, and your own pages: well beyond a stream
Rotating wallpaper with subtle parallax, and every bit of motion can be switched off

Control Room™ · private client access

Control Room content management system login screen styled as a broadcast Restricted Area / Authorized Personnel Only control room sign

Control Room sponsor and traffic management screen with directory listings and display ads

Control Room™ — the staff web portal

Control Room™

Content management. Built so a volunteer can drive it.

Stories, events, shows, sponsors, directory listings, all managed from one web portal with strict role-based permissions. It looks like broadcast gear because it is: purpose-built for radio, not a generic dashboard you bend into shape.

Sponsor tools that pay the bills: rotating placements, digital coupons, a searchable business directory
Updates reach the app instantly, with no resubmission and no app-store wait
Set an expiration and forget it, so stale stories vanish on their own, and a page empties out so listeners never see outdated info
Keep a page off the menu and link to it straight from a story, so your app is arranged your way

Larry high-contrast interface of The Lakes Radio app — same Listen Live screen rendered in high contrast

The Larry™ high-contrast interface
(user-selectable)

Meet Larry™

Built for listeners others forget.

Larry™ is a high-contrast interface any listener can switch on at any time, alongside light and dark themes and adjustable wallpaper brightness. Every graphic a station uploads can carry its own high-contrast version, made just for it.

He's named for a blind student at the college station where this all began. Accessibility here isn't a checkbox bolted on at the end. It's in the product from the first line of code.

Color-contrast checked Sized & spaced controls ARIA & alt text Reduced-motion toggle Light / dark themes

How we onboard

We won't sell you everything at once... On purpose.

Stations that switch on every feature in week one tend to use none of them by week four. So we don't. The Managed Roll-Out introduces capabilities in phases, so your team is never overwhelmed, and every new feature becomes something fresh for your on-air staff to announce, something to get listeners excited, and one more reason to keep opening the app.

PHASE 01

Get on the air

Your branded app and stream go live, with the essentials your listeners expect from day one.

PHASE 02

Build the habit

Add content, events, and weather as your team gets comfortable in Control Room™. Every addition is something new to talk up on the air.

PHASE 03

Grow the revenue

Once the foundation is solid, turn on sponsor tools, the business directory, and optional add-on modules. Each add-on also provides additional sponsor inventory. And when growth outpaces your volunteers, ask about our Concierge™ team.

Make radio active.

Who's behind it

Built by someone who's been on both sides of radio and technology.

A young Jason waving from the control board at his college radio station, WRHU — College radio, WRHU

A young Jason cueing records at a radio station control board with turntables and a cart wall — On the board, college days

Jason in a tuxedo accepting a video production award — Accepting a video award

Newspaper clipping headlined Students' Bill Scores Committee Victory, featuring Jason's students — His students make the paper (2003)

I'm Jason, and my life has been shaped by radio, technology, and community. It started at ten, when my older brother decided radio would be his career and I became his test audience. Years later it led me to switch my major from computer science to radio broadcasting.

At my college station I was PR director, producer, morning host, and student program director. Our block-programming model taught me one thing for good: radio isn't just content — it's a community's connection to itself.

My brother and I used to argue — my little community station versus his big corporate Top 40. He's gone now. Ask me about him.

After a stint in early interactive audio and some fill-in air work, I tired of the corporate grind and taught high school for 18 years. Then I helped a buddy get his new LPFM station on the air in New Port Richey, built him a simple streaming app, and kept going. The RadioActive™ platform grew out of that.

Let's talk

We're radio people, too.

Tell us about your station and we'll set up a 30-minute demo, a real conversation about what the platform can do for you, not a checkout page.

From $45 / month · non-commercial stations

Commercial stations are priced separately. We'll walk you through it on the call.

Refer two paying stations and your next year of Nuclear Core™ is on us. (Optional add-ons aren't included.) Full details after you're aboard.

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