Priya Nair has been with ArrayFM since the very first broadcast. Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break. The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air.
A few thank-yous
Our community Discord is where most show ideas start and where most bad puns go to live forever. Radio has always been about company, and that has not changed just because the transmitter is now a rack of servers. We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery.
We test new segments live, keep what works and quietly retire what does not. Accessibility matters to us, so every show gets a transcript and every page works with a keyboard. We keep a strict no-autoplay policy on the site: you press play, and then we never interrupt you. Behind the scenes, the playout system is a small pile of open source tools glued together with very careful shell scripts. Local artists make up almost a third of what we play, and that number keeps going up.
- Community playlist every Sunday
- Chat moderated by real people
- Stream in 128 kbps MP3 or 320 kbps AAC
- New shows every weekday at 06:00
When a listener sends a track we have never heard, it goes straight into the next hour. We test new segments live, keep what works and quietly retire what does not. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. Late nights are for experiments: long mixes, ambient sets and the occasional field recording.
Small details
Our engineers obsess over latency because a stream that stutters is a stream people switch off. Radio has always been about company, and that has not changed just because the transmitter is now a rack of servers. Some of our most-loved segments started as a joke in the green room. Late nights are for experiments: long mixes, ambient sets and the occasional field recording.
We record every show, trim the talk, and publish it as a podcast by the next morning. We measure success in hours listened, not clicks, which keeps us honest about what actually matters. Good radio sounds effortless, but every minute on air has at least ten minutes of prep behind it. Listeners tell us they tune in while they code, study, drive, cook and occasionally while they should be sleeping. Nothing beats the feeling of a track dropping at exactly the right moment and the chat exploding with fire emojis.
A station is only as good as its worst transition.
Our community Discord is where most show ideas start and where most bad puns go to live forever. Some of our most-loved segments started as a joke in the green room. Listeners tell us they tune in while they code, study, drive, cook and occasionally while they should be sleeping. The studio is small, the monitors are loud and the coffee machine has its own on-call rotation. Morning shows are for energy, weather, traffic and the one story everyone at work will talk about.
How to tune in
We measure success in hours listened, not clicks, which keeps us honest about what actually matters. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. We test new segments live, keep what works and quietly retire what does not. Local artists make up almost a third of what we play, and that number keeps going up. A radio station is really a promise: that there will be something good playing whenever you tune in.
Late nights are for experiments: long mixes, ambient sets and the occasional field recording. We test new segments live, keep what works and quietly retire what does not. We still print the weekly playlist and pin it on the studio wall, mostly out of habit. Listeners tell us they tune in while they code, study, drive, cook and occasionally while they should be sleeping. Our favourite metric is the number of listeners who stay through the ad break.
The short version
Most of our DJs have day jobs in software, design or support, which explains the jokes. A radio station is really a promise: that there will be something good playing whenever you tune in. The chat is moderated by humans, which keeps it friendly, weird and welcoming.
The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air. Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. Morning shows are for energy, weather, traffic and the one story everyone at work will talk about. We keep a strict no-autoplay policy on the site: you press play, and then we never interrupt you.
What comes next
We measure success in hours listened, not clicks, which keeps us honest about what actually matters. We keep the site lightweight on purpose, so it loads fast on a train, a tired laptop or a phone at 5% battery. Our schedule is built in blocks, with softer sounds in the morning and heavier beats after dark.
Nothing beats the feeling of a track dropping at exactly the right moment and the chat exploding with fire emojis. Most of our DJs have day jobs in software, design or support, which explains the jokes. Some of our most-loved segments started as a joke in the green room. The studio is small, the monitors are loud and the coffee machine has its own on-call rotation.
Every show on ArrayFM starts with a simple rule: play the track you would send to a friend at 2am. The request line gets more messages than ever, and our DJs read every single one on air. If you have ever wondered why a song sounds warmer on air, the answer is a ridiculous amount of compression. The archive now holds more than two thousand hours of shows, all searchable by track and guest.