Build Your Community Radio Station's Website and Rota with AI

Mythex builds a community radio station website with a programme grid, a page for every show and a listen-live button, then the station tools behind it: a presenter rota where cover requests stay visible, a volunteer portal for playlists, and records of advertisers and funders. You describe it in chat and publish it to a public link.

What a volunteer-run station needs to keep on air

A community station fills dozens of weekly slots with volunteers who also have jobs, families and holidays. The hard part is not the broadcast desk; it is knowing who is presenting on Thursday night when the regular host is ill, and finding that out before the slot goes to dead air. Around the schedule sit studio bookings for pre-records and training, playlist returns for music reporting, local advertisers who need proof their spots ran, and grant funders who want volunteer hours and community reach. Most of this lives in a group chat and a shared spreadsheet, which works until a swap request scrolls out of view.

A programme grid with each slot's regular presenter and any cover arranged
Cover requests that stay open until someone takes them
Studio time for pre-records and training booked around live shows
Playlist submission after every show for music reporting
Advertiser campaigns with airing dates and renewal reminders
Volunteer hours logged for grant reports

What you can build for community radio stations

A presenter rota where cover requests can't get lost

The programme grid shows every slot with its regular presenter. A presenter who needs a week off posts a cover request into the slot; others see it and offer to take it, and the station manager confirms. Unfilled slots stay highlighted with a fallback, such as a repeat or the automated playlist, so the gaps in the next fortnight are obvious.

Build a presenter rota for our community radio station. Show the weekly programme grid with each slot's presenter. Presenters can post a cover request for a date, others can offer to cover, and the station manager approves. Highlight any slot in the next 14 days with no presenter.

A station website with a page for every show

Each show gets its own page with the presenter's bio, the time slot, the genre and links to past episodes. Presenters share their own show page far more than the homepage, so each one becomes a small channel back to the stream. A listen-live button sits on every page, and a volunteering page explains how to train as a presenter.

Make a website for our community radio station with a listen-live button on every page, a weekly schedule, a page per show with presenter bio and episode links, a page on how to volunteer, and an advertising page for local businesses.

A volunteer portal for slots, playlists and procedures

Presenters log in to see their upcoming slots, open cover requests and studio bookings. After each show they fill in a short playlist form, which keeps music reporting from turning into a monthly reconstruction job. Studio procedures and training notes sit in the same place, so a new volunteer can read how the desk works before their first session.

Create a presenter portal for our radio station. Each presenter logs in to see their slots, cover requests and studio bookings, submits a playlist (artist, track, time played) after each show, and can read our studio procedures and training documents.

Advertisers, sponsors and funders in one list

Keep every local advertiser with their campaign dates, spend and shows they aired on, so you can contact them a few weeks before a campaign ends. Sponsors, donors and grant funders get their own tags, and funders carry reporting deadlines. Volunteers can live here too, with training completed and the shows they present.

Build a CRM for our community radio station with advertisers (campaign start and end, spots per week, shows, amount), sponsors, donors and grant funders with report due dates. Show campaigns ending in the next 3 weeks so we can ask about renewal.

Advertising invoices with the airing log attached

Each invoice lists the campaign dates, the number of spots and the shows they aired on. Attaching the airing log answers the advertiser's first question before they ask it, and small businesses pay faster when they can see when their ad ran. Sponsorship can be split into installments, and studio hire or training fees get their own invoices.

Make an invoicing app for our radio station's advertising. Each invoice shows the advertiser, campaign dates, number of spots, the shows they aired on, and an airing log table. Support installment invoices for sponsors and separate invoices for studio hire.

A fundraising drive page with a live target

A fundraising week needs one page with the target, progress so far and simple ways to give. The same pattern works for presenter recruitment, local election coverage or a festival broadcast. Supporter memberships at a low monthly level can sit on the page too, collected through a payment account the station connects.

Build a fundraising page for our station's annual appeal with a target of 8,000, a progress bar we update from an admin page, a short story about what the money pays for, and options for one-off and monthly support.

Data a station should keep from day one

Start with the programme grid and the people in it: presenter name, show, slot and contact details. Then add volunteer hours, logged as shows go out rather than reconstructed at report time. Funders often ask for evidence of community involvement, and totals you already have make the next application much easier. Playlists come next, because music reporting is much harder to piece together weeks later.

Presenters, shows and slots
Volunteer hours per person per month
Playlists per show, submitted the same day
Advertiser campaigns and airing dates

Presenter training as an online course

The theory parts of presenter training, such as desk basics, interviewing and the legal rules on what can go out on air, can move into short online lessons. Trainees see which sessions they have finished, and studio time is saved for hands-on practice and assessments. Mythex can build the course with lessons, progress tracking and a booking step for the practical session.

Questions

Can I embed our live stream on the website?

Yes. Give Mythex your stream URL or the embed code from your streaming provider and it adds a player or listen-live button. It does not host the audio stream itself.

Can presenters swap shows without the group chat?

Yes. A presenter posts a cover request against their slot, others can offer to cover it, and the station manager approves. The request stays visible on the rota until it is filled.

Can we take donations and supporter memberships?

Yes. Mythex can build a donation and membership page, with payments taken through a payment provider account the station connects. Supporter records, including consent to on-air thanks, are saved in your database.

Is it free for a small station?

The Free plan needs no card and includes daily credits and publishing, which is enough for a first website and rota. Pro is $25 a month if you want a custom domain, code editing and more credits.

Do our volunteers need technical skills?

No. Whoever builds the app describes it in plain language, and volunteers just log in and use it. Changes are made by chatting with Mythex rather than editing code.

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