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Your show cockpit — the countdown to your next show, everything before you go on, and while you're broadcasting.

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My shows

Manage your programmes, mark each as live or pre-recorded, and link them to the studio.

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Shows marked LIVE in the schedule automatically reserve the studio for their slot — there's only one studio, so the booking grid and the live schedule stay in sync.

My audience

How many people were listening to the station's online stream while your shows were on. Each count is matched to whatever the schedule says was airing — so these are your slots, not the station's day.

Window

Avg online listeners

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Your peak

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Placement

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Hours on air

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Your shows

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Each airing

Show assets

Your show's brand kit is built from what you provide — logo, artwork, a photo, an audio ident and a bio. The more you give us, the better your show looks everywhere.

Your show — brand kit —

Show
Show logo / artwork —

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Show logo / artwork is the one piece you provide here directly — upload it above and it appears in the listener app whenever your show is on and the current track has no cover of its own. Everything below is still a checklist: tick each piece off as you hand it to admin.

Show pages

Every show's home base. Presenters keep their page fresh — what they post feeds the website, socials and trails.

Viewing

Status

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Slots / week

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Next slot

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Brand kit

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About the show

Latest from the show

Next on air

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Show assets —

This page feeds

Your website show pageSynced
Your socialsOn post
Trails & identsBrand kit

Keep this page updated and it flows everywhere automatically.

Calendar

Station dates and your own — block out time away from your show so cover can be arranged.

This month Station + personal

Your show Station event Time away Meeting

Studio booking

One studio, shared by everyone — live shows auto-book it, so grab any free slot for recording or prep.

Today · the studio Synced with the live schedule

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Because a live show must be in the studio, its slot is locked here automatically — no double-bookings.

Meetings

Station meetings, training and calls — what's coming up, and the link to get into it.

Coming up

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Meetings are set by the station office. Anything struck through has been called off — you don't need to turn up.

Newsroom

Build a ready-to-read local news bulletin from today's live Kent feeds — check it, then send it to the newsroom queue or read it on air.

Build a bulletin AI

Pulls today's stories from live Kent news feeds and writes them into a spoken bulletin — real, sourced news, ready for you to check and read on air.

Each bulletin uses a few AI credits from the station's account — a small real cost, so go steady on repeat runs.

Live sources

Your bulletin is written from current, dated stories on these local feeds — real news, not invented, with the stories it used listed under each draft.

Kent Live — Folkestone, Hythe & DoverLive
Folkestone & Hythe CouncilLive
BBC News & Kent Live — KentLive

Still your call — read it through and double-check anything sensitive before it airs.

News Feeds

The live local-news wire — every story from the sources your bulletins are built from: Folkestone first, then the wider Kent wire, newest within each. Refreshes automatically as new stories land.

On the wire

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Tap a headline to read the story here, without losing your place on the wire. Stories that land after you open this page are tagged New.

Traffic & Travel

Live incidents and roadworks on our local roads, plus closures on Kent's motorways and major A-roads — the M20 & Operation Brock, M2, A2, A20 and the Dartford Crossing — trains, buses, crossings and travel news from the local wire.

Local roads & roadworks

Live from TomTom

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Live incidents and roadworks on every road in the district from TomTom — the A259, A260, A2034 and the town streets National Highways doesn't cover. Folkestone leads; tap a town to re-point it, or All to see the lot ungrouped. Roadworks and the rest of the district fold into the dropdowns.

Live now — Kent roads

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Real-time road & lane closures and incidents from National Highways — the strategic network only (M20/M2/M25, A2, A20, A282 & other Kent trunk roads). Local roads are in the card above. Live = in force now; Planned = scheduled.

Trains — Southeastern

Folkestone Central — live departures

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Full board & other stations
Disruptions

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Live departures & Southeastern disruptions from National Rail — On time / delayed shown live.

Travel news

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Travel & traffic stories from the local news wire (KentLive, BBC Kent). Tap a headline to read the full story.

Buses

Kent's bus operators don't publish a live disruptions feed, so these open their own service-update pages. Big route changes also appear in Travel news above.

Stagecoach South East — service updates Live bus map — Folkestone (all operators) Arriva Kent & Surrey — travel news

Channel crossings

The ferry & tunnel operators don't publish an open data feed, so these open their own live status pages. Big Dover/Tunnel queues also show on the M20 above.

LeShuttle (Eurotunnel) — live departures Port of Dover DFDS (Dover–Calais / Dunkirk) P&O Ferries (Dover–Calais)

Content writer

Tell us what you need and we'll draft it for you — ready to check and read on air.

Quick generators a theme is optional on most of them

Request content

What do you need? Brief

Each draft uses a few AI credits from the station's account — a small real cost, so go steady on repeat runs.

Membership

The station's community membership — give what you can each month, or pay yearly and get two months free.

Community membership

PlanCommunity membership · monthly or yearly
PaymentBy bank transfer
How much would you like to give each month?

£20 a month is the suggested amount — anything from £10 to £50 helps. Pay monthly by standing order, or a year up front.

Your payments

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Everything you've paid the station through the Hub, newest first. A payment shows as Pending until we match your transfer on the bank statement — allow a working day.

Trail clips

Caught a great moment on air? Log it as it happens — when your show ends it drops into admin to be cut into a trailer.

Clip a moment Kept on this device

When (show time) What was it? Note for the editor

This show's logger

Your logged moments are kept here during the show. Sending them straight to admin's clip engine is coming in a later update — for now, note the times and pass them on.

What's On

Promoting something for your show or the station? Add it here and it lands on the website What's On — no waiting on admin.

Add an event

Event name Date & time Venue Address from venue Image URL Description Ticket / booking link
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Tag

Verified presenters publish straight through — admin only reviews flagged ones.

Live on the website

Station feed

What everyone at the station is saying, and what the station has been doing.

Team wall everyone here can see this · posts appear straight away

Your name goes on it. You can take your own posts down, and an admin can put one back.

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Recent station activity

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Ofcom check

Paste anything you're about to say or post — we'll flag anything outside Ofcom guidelines first.

Content checker AI

Each check uses a few AI credits from the station's account — a small real cost, so go steady on repeat runs.

Messages

Message the team, or anyone else at the station, and pick the conversation up here.

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Live messages

Listener shout-outs and requests in one place — phone, text, email and social. Log what comes into the studio, then mark it once you have read it out.

Waiting

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Read on air today

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In the last 7 days

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Log a message

Took a call or a text in the studio? Put it here so it lands on the board with everything else.

How did it come in? Who is it from? What do they say?

The board

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Ideas & leads

Got a show idea, a guest, or a business that might sponsor? Send it in — admin reviews everything.

Submit a station idea

Goes to the ideas board in admin, where it's reviewed and voted on.

Send a sales lead / sponsor

Business name Why they'd be a good fit

My hours

Your volunteer time, logged. Clock in when you start, or add a stint by hand afterwards — these totals are what the station reports to funders.

On the clock

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This month

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This year

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All time

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Clock in / out

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Add a stint by hand

Date
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What were you doing? Notes (optional)

Recent stints

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Back timer

How long until the junction, and whether what you have lined up actually fits before it. Pop it out onto a second screen and leave it running.

Open full screen

Runs entirely on this device — no sign-in, nothing saved to the station. Your junction and running order stay in this browser, so the pop-out picks up where the panel left off.

Show notes

What happened on the show, what you promised on air, and what the next person needs to know. Your AI brief is the prep — this is the record.

Write a note

Show
Date
Notes Who can see it

Shared notes are readable by anyone with a station login. Private ones are yours alone — not even admin sees them.

Notes

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Prep boards

Everything you are gathering for a show — links, talking points, guests, tracks. Share a board and the whole team can pin to it during the week.

Boards

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Pick a board

Choose a board on the left, or make one. Anything you pin stays until you clear it.

Show planner

Your running order, with a clock against it. Start times work themselves out from the durations, so moving one item shifts everything below it.

Plans

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Pick a plan

Choose a running order on the left, or start a new one.

Live reads

Everything the station needs read out live — notices, promos, community and charity announcements, event plugs and sponsor reads. Pick one, run the timer to keep to length, then mark it read.

Live right now

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You read today

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Your reads this month

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The reads

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On the mic

Pick a read on the left and it opens here, big enough to read off the screen.

Tasks

The station's shared to-do board. Anything assigned to you turns up in your notifications, so jobs stop living in WhatsApp.

Open — mine

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Overdue

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Done this week

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Raise a task

What needs doing? Any detail (optional) Who is doing it?
Due
Priority
Team

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Sign-offs

Keep your station paperwork current — handbook and Ofcom acknowledgements, tracked for you.

Your sign-offs

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Admin sees the whole roster's status at a glance and chases renewals automatically.