The First-of-its-kind Dynamic Broadcast Platform

Radio Automation, Music Scheduling & Traffic Software

Radio automation, music scheduling, playout, traffic & billing, imaging, production and syndication — every module more advanced than anything else on the market

Are you AirReady?|What's on your AirWaves?
Broadcast, Unified.

You don't have to replace your automation. Every AirWaves module — music scheduling, traffic & billing, AI imaging, AI DJ, Weathercast, newscasts, production, processing, streaming, skimmer — runs standalone and feeds any automation system you already own. Take one module or take the platform.

One platform runs the whole station — the most advanced broadcast automation ever built, world-class music scheduling, an AI imaging producer, AI DJ personas, browser voice tracking, a multitrack production studio, full traffic & billing, a drag-and-drop website builder, VAST streaming, a unique routing mixer, an AI Assistant Program Director, a drag-and-drop app builder, broadcast audio processing, a profanity delay, a newsroom, request & tune-out tracking, live syndication, and a browser phone system. The same engine that puts you on air builds your site, powers your app, and bills your advertisers.

Custom C++ engine — no public libraries Fully UI-based — no studio installs Distributed — cluster & network scale
AirWaves on-air control screen
REAL-TIME ENGINE
Per-source processing
AUTOMATIC
Air + Stream events
1Server per site — you own it
35+Modules — integrated, or standalone on any automation
100%Browser-based control surface
10-lineTalk hybrid with screener
0Third-party audio engines

Five systems most stations buy separately — built as one

Radio automation, music scheduling, traffic scheduling, streaming and show prep normally mean five vendors, five databases, five contracts and a great deal of exporting and importing. In AirWaves they are one platform on one database — and each one is also available on its own, running against the automation you already own.

No rip-and-replace

Every module works with any radio automation system — not just AirWaves

AirWaves is the whole station in one platform, but nothing here is locked to it. Every module was built to stand on its own and hand finished, standards-compliant output to whatever automation you already run — RCS, WideOrbit, Zetta, Simian, ENCO, Rivendell, StationPlaylist, NexGen, MusicMaster, Powergold, or anything else that reads a log or plays a file. Adopt one module, replace one weak link in your operation, and migrate the rest whenever you're ready — or never.

Music Scheduling — standalone

Build your logs in the most advanced music scheduler in radio and export them to your existing automation. Format clocks, the full rule tree, Shape of the Day energy flow and turnover analysis — no automation change required.

AI Imaging, AI DJ, Weather & News

Every AI module writes a real, finished audio file — tagged, marked, loudness-matched, with full metadata — into any folder or library your automation watches. Sweepers, liners, promos, DJ breaks, weathercasts and newscasts drop straight into someone else's playout.

Traffic & Billing — standalone

Run AirWaves Traffic against third-party playout: it exports spot logs your automation imports and reconciles the as-aired data back for billing, affidavits and network clearance. Your air chain doesn't move.

Audio Processing & Profanity Delay

AirTools processing, the software profanity delay, the routing mixer and the streaming encoder sit in the signal path — they process and route whatever is driving the air chain, regardless of vendor.

Skimmer, Proof of Performance & Reports

Record and log any station's air, isolate each advertiser's spot automatically, and hand clients proof of performance — even if the automation feeding it isn't ours.

Websites, Apps & Streaming

The website builder, app builder, persistent player with VAST insertion and listener request tools attach to any stream and any station, whatever puts it on the air.

Your existing automation ←→ Any AirWaves module On air, unchanged
First-of-its-kind dynamic platform

Radio broadcast software that runs the whole station — from the audio engine to the website to the invoice.

Not seven vendors stitched together. The same engine that puts you on air builds your website, powers the app on your listeners' phones, and bills your advertisers — all connected, all in one place. Sell an ad once and monetize it everywhere: on the air, in the stream, on the site, in the app — every impression tracked and billed in one system.

01 AirWaves Automation The Flagship Most advanced automation in radio

Radio Automation Software: the most advanced broadcast automation ever built — hybrid cloud, zero installs

AirWaves Automation runs as a true local system — the speed and rock-solid reliability of on-site, disconnected tech — while delivering the reach and scale of a distributed cloud platform. Nothing to install. No applications, no EXEs. The whole system runs in the browser, yet behaves like dedicated hardware in the rack. Easy to run, easy to recover, and built on a proprietary engine with custom algorithms found nowhere else.

It sees problems before they happen. The engine constantly self-monitors and runs forward-looking health checks — so instead of failing live, it can warn you: "the engine is showing early signs of trouble and may fault Thursday — switch to auxiliary and reboot the main now." Predictive recovery, not 2 a.m. dead air.

Dynamic Sequencing & Events

  • Dual dynamic sequencers — run your air and your stream on two completely different schedules at once
  • Blackouts are easy — schedule the game on air, tell the stream to run the regular log, done
  • Exclusive event scheduler — we don't care how long the event runs, it airs as intended
  • One-step game-log send — not the complicated hot mess everyone else makes it
  • Rain-delay & cancellation signaling built in
  • "Magic" smart events — keep two pieces of imaging from ever airing back-to-back, and more
  • Dynamic oversweeping and auto-tagging of events and songs

Content Intelligence

  • Automatic marking of Intro, EOM, and even Hooks — plus Artist and Title
  • Profanity protection — analyzes every song, alerts on key words, can flag or remove (more coming)
  • New-music alerts pushed right to your automation to play out on the spot
  • Segue editors and fine playout control
  • Streaming sources with meta-trigger capabilities
  • Smart carts that automate complex, multi-step tasks
  • EAS & alerting handled in the system

Programming, Sales & Remote

  • Custom UI per user — everyone sets it up the way they work
  • Totally custom layouts, log layouts, and searches
  • World-class auto-scheduler fed by requests and tune-out tracking
  • Multiple traffic types — merge your network barter automatically
  • Sales-to-air in minutes: pay and hit air with dynamic ad insertion
  • Dynamic weather, AirLink multiparty live audio with automatic mix-minus, remote tracking
  • Remote control from tablet or phone — hear the live studio and even go live
runs in the browser · local speed · cloud scale · self-healing · nothing to install
02 AirWaves Sites · Website Builder Flagship

Radio Station Website Builder — your site, built by drag and drop

The first website builder built by broadcasters, for broadcasters. Element palette on the left, live preview on the right — drag an element onto the page, click it to open its settings, and what you build is what publishes. Start from a station template, then own every color, logo, font, and layout on your own domain.

  • True drag-and-drop editing with desktop + mobile views and one-click Publish
  • Three-column, multi-page layouts — fully responsive, stack cleanly on mobile
  • Full version history with instant rollback — point your own domain and go live
  • Built-in elements: dedications, presenters, top-chart voting, podcasts, events, news, weather, sports
site.broadcastairwaves.com — Builder
AirWaves Sites drag-and-drop website builder with element palette and live 3-column canvas
03 Persistent Live Player · VAST Streaming

Radio Streaming Software with VAST Ad Insertion — a player that follows the listener

A docked player bar keeps playing across every page your listener visits, streams your live audio with VAST pre-roll ad insertion built in, and shows the current track with auto-fetched album art. Now Playing reads real-time metadata straight from the stream so it never lags behind an ad break.

  • VAST pre-roll insertion on the live stream — monetize the web listen, automatically
  • Survives navigation — never cuts out as listeners browse pages
  • Live now-playing with auto album art, fully styleable to your brand
  • Works across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Android and iOS
AirWaves Encoder — multi-station streaming
AirWaves multi-station streaming encoder with program scope, now-playing and volume mixer
04 Virtual Mixer · Routing Matrix Unique

Virtual Radio Mixer & Routing Matrix — full control of the system

A complete broadcast console in the browser, driven by the real-time engine — every fader maps to a live audio operation, with the engine confirming the exact gain that reached the signal. Underneath it is a true routing matrix nothing else offers: send any bus or feed to any physical device, independently, from one screen.

  • Raw / Pre / Post — three discrete program feeds off one signal, each separately routable
  • Per-strip source assignment, mute/on-off/pan, clean summed program bus
  • Live device enumeration, Apply-to-commit workflow with SQL persistence
  • Self-healing cold start — restores the entire board and routing on boot, on-air every time
AirWaves — Routing Mixer
AirWaves routing mixer with Program, Audition and Utility buses, per-channel PGM/AUD/STR/UTL routing, and PHN/MON/CUE monitor sends
05 AI Assistant Program Director · APD First in radio

AI Program Director Software that helps your PD dial in the sound — and won't make anything up

Ask your station anything. The APD reads your real library, logs, scheduling rules, and clocks and answers in plain language — then suggests clock changes and grid changes to achieve the sound you're after, with full simulation so your PD sees the result before it's live. It always shows a preview and asks before it applies anything — the program director stays in control.

  • "Make my overnights mellow and build energy into morning drive"
  • "I want more Gold overnight — what would that take?"
  • Proposes clock & grid changes with full simulation, preview, and approve
  • Wired to the same automation, library and scheduler that run the station — grounded in your real data
APD — AI Assistant Program Director
AI Assistant Program Director natural-language assistant reading real station library, logs and clocks
06 Weathercast · AI Weather Sellable

AI Radio Weather Software — local weather that writes, voices and airs itself

Weathercast pulls live conditions, a full multi-day forecast, and National Weather Service alerts — severe weather leads the cast automatically when it exists — then writes the on-air read in your choice of pro meteorologist or personality-DJ style, wrapped in your station's weather intro and outro, and voices it in your saved station voice. Forecast data is cached locally with a deterministic fallback, so air time never depends on an outside service being up — never dead air.

  • Live data every cast — current temps, today / tonight / 3-day with rain chances, NWS severe alerts up front
  • Rotating real nearby-town temps, discovered from the map — a different sweep every read
  • One-click Weathercast preset in the clock editor — schedules like any other element
  • Sell it: sponsor flights with dayparts and rates — tagged on or woven into the forecast, play-tracked with proof for billing
Weathercast — On-Air Preview
AS AIRED · :20 WEATHER

"…Right now in Cape Coral it's 93, LaBelle checking in at 90, and 92 in Fort Myers. Look for scattered afternoon storms, overnight low near 77 — your Gulf Coast forecast is brought to you by Sunshine Ford…"

LIVE DATA AI SCRIPT STATION VOICE ON AIR
07 AI Newscasts · News

AI Radio Newscasts & Newsroom Software — top-of-hour news, fresh every single hour

The news twin of Weathercast. AI Newscasts assemble local, regional, and national stories from live feeds, write them for the ear at radio pace, and voice them in your station's news voice — timed to fit the break, wrapped in your news intro and outro, and dropped into your clocks like any other element. Small-market local news coverage that used to take a newsroom now airs around the clock.

  • Local + national stories assembled fresh from live feeds for every cast
  • Written for the ear and timed to the break — :30, :60, or the length your clock calls for
  • Voiced in your station's AI news voice, with your intro and outro verbatim
  • Sponsorable end-to-end — "news brought to you by…", tracked and billed through traffic
AI Newscast — On-Air Preview
AS AIRED · TOP-OF-HOUR NEWS

"…AirWaves News time: 8 o'clock. Topping local news, the county commission approved the downtown riverfront project last night — construction starts this fall. Nationally, markets open higher this morning… I'm your AirWaves newsroom, back at the top of the hour."

NEWS FEEDS AI SCRIPT NEWS VOICE ON AIR
08 AirWaves App Builder

Radio Station App Builder — build your mobile app with drag-and-drop control

The same builder thinking, for the app in your listeners' pockets. Arrange the station app by dragging in the surfaces you want — live player, now-playing, schedule, requests, dedications, listener texts — and ship a branded app tied to your live stream. No app developer, no separate vendor.

  • Drag-and-drop layout of every app surface — your brand, your order
  • Tied to the same live stream, now-playing, and engagement tools as the site
  • Listener requests and texts arrive straight from the app into the studio
AirWaves App Builder — station app canvas
AirWaves App Builder drag-and-drop station app layout
The differentiator

Radio website advertising where a banner ad bills itself

Drop an Advertiser element, set the creative and click-through, and every impression and click on your site is tracked automatically and routed through AirWaves Traffic for billing — the same system that runs your on-air and network advertising. One contract, one invoice, every placement. No competitor can say a website banner bills through the same traffic system as the on-air spot.

Website banner click Tracked automatically AirWaves Traffic & Billing One invoice
09 AirTools · Broadcast Audio Processor

Broadcast Audio Processing Software, running live in the engine

The AirTools Broadcast Audio Processor is a complete professional on-air chain — no rack of outboard gear, no plugin sprawl. Signal flows Source → AGC → Parametric EQ → Adaptive Auto-EQ → 5-Band Multiband → Solar Plexus bass, then splits into two final stages: an Air Path with an FM loudness clipper and a Stream Path with LUFS + true-peak — each tuned for its destination. It arms itself on startup and is processing from the moment you go live.

  • Split Air + Stream finals — FM clipper and LUFS / true-peak, separately tuned
  • Per-output loudness targets for FM, HQ Stream, Mobile, Podcast and DAB+
  • Adaptive Auto-EQ and Solar Plexus bass enhancement, proprietary DSP
  • Arms on startup — processing the instant you're on air, every time
AirTools — Broadcast Audio Processor
AirTools Broadcast Audio Processor signal path with split Air and Stream finals
10 Auto Music & Traffic Scheduling

Music Scheduling Software — program the feel of the day, not just the songs

The Music Scheduler programs the energy of the day with a draggable 24-hour arc — Flow Sequencing builds each hour toward the energy you set. Around it: format clocks, a full rule tree, and a multi-day auto-build that feeds the automation engine directly. Traffic scheduling places and reconciles every spot, so programming, automation, and air are one continuous system — all built in, world-class, with no third-party scheduler and no exporting and importing logs. Nothing else on the market schedules the energy of an hour — and if you'd rather keep your current automation, the scheduler runs standalone and exports logs straight into it.

  • Shape of the Day — draw a 24-hour energy arc; the scheduler builds toward it
  • Exclusive Flow Control — ride the ebbs and swells of your day instead of fighting them
  • Format clocks & rotations — Power/Current (A·B·C), Recurrent, Gold — with quick-shape presets and per-day or weekday/weekend curves
  • A full rule tree — artist & title separation, dayparting, sound codes; breakable vs. unbreakable rules across a multi-pass engine
  • An unmatched mathematical engine — custom algorithms weigh every rule, rest, and rotation on every single pick
  • Optimum goals with category fallback — when a category runs dry, the scheduler steps down gracefully instead of failing the slot
  • No rotation clunk — and no artist or title pile-ups; separation rules hold even under pressure
  • Turnover analysis built in — spins, search depth & category health at a glance
  • Absolute control of your station's sound and flow — nothing airs that you didn't shape
  • Centralized control, centralized library — every station and studio schedules from one seat and one set of carts
  • Multi-day auto-build feeding the automation engine directly — with automatic traffic placement and reconciliation
  • Never chained to a desk — schedule from anywhere on the hybrid web/local UI
  • A small learning curve — music people are building great days in an afternoon, not a training week
Music Scheduler — Shape of the Day
Music Scheduler Shape of the Day draggable 24-hour energy arc
11 AI Imaging Producer First in radio

AI Radio Imaging Software — sweepers, liners and promos that produce themselves

The Imaging Producer writes, voices and builds your station imaging. Give it a phrase library, your positioning statement, and your imaging voices, and it produces sweepers, liners, legal IDs, promos, show opens and topical drops — scored to beds, layered with SFX, loudness-matched, and filed straight into your imaging categories, marked and ready to air. What used to be a production day is a queue you approve. No other platform produces finished, on-brand imaging on its own.

  • Imaging phrase library — your positioners, slogans and taglines, reused and rotated so nothing wears out
  • SFX and beds layered automatically, with timing and ducking handled for you
  • Multiple imaging voices per station — pick a voice per category or per element
  • Output lands tagged, marked and loudness-matched — and drops into any automation system's imaging folder
Imaging Producer — element queue
PRODUCED · READY TO AIR

"…Today's best country — and the songs you grew up on. 101-7, The Wolf."

PHRASE LIBRARY AI SCRIPT VOICE + BED + SFX IMAGING CART
12 AI DJ · Personas & Station Voices First in radio

AI DJ Software — a personality on your station around the clock

Build a DJ persona — name, voice, attitude, how much they talk — and AirWaves voices real breaks between your songs: intros over the ramp, back-announces, time and temp, song and artist context, station trivia, and topical chat. The breaks are written from your actual log, so the DJ knows what just played and what's coming. A text-to-speech voice-talent library gives you studio-grade voices in any read style, and a persona grid lets you run a different jock in every daypart. Nobody else ships a DJ that talks about your log.

  • Persona grid — a different voice and attitude per daypart, per station
  • Breaks written from your real log — song context, artist facts, trivia, time and temp
  • Voice-talent library — studio-grade TTS voices, or clone your own station voice
  • Duration-accurate to the ramp, and exports finished break files any automation can play
AI DJ — break preview
AS AIRED · :14 RAMP TALK-UP

"…That's Strait — and this one spent five weeks at number one back in '92. It's 4:15, seventy-eight degrees on the Gulf Coast…"

YOUR LOG PERSONA AI VOICE ON THE RAMP
13 Voice Tracking · Markers & Coverage

Radio Voice Tracking Software — track a shift from anywhere, in a browser

Voice tracking runs in the browser with the log in front of you and the ramp, intro and EOM markers already set by the engine. Talent hears the outgoing song, the incoming song and their own take in context, and every take lands in the log placed and marked. Program directors get management tools no other system has: per-user daypart restriction, so a jock can only track their own hours; a cross-day pending-markers worklist; automatic advance to the next open marker; fill attribution recording exactly who filled which break and when; and a station coverage view showing every unfilled marker across the schedule at a glance.

  • Per-user daypart restriction — talent tracks only the hours you assign them
  • Station Coverage view — see every unfilled break across every day and station
  • Fill attribution — a permanent record of who recorded each break, and when
  • Auto-advance, due-soon and overdue badges, keyboard shortcuts, live refresh — no studio seat required
Voice Track — marker recorder
MY PENDING MARKERS · DAYPART 14–19
15:12  RAMP TALK-UP  DUE SOON
16:04  BACK-ANNOUNCE  OPEN
17:22  PROMO BREAK  FILLED · J. RIVERA
18:40  TIME & TEMP  OPEN
RECORD IN BROWSER PLACED & MARKED IN THE LOG
14 Production Studio · Multitrack Editor

Radio Production Software — a full multitrack studio inside the platform

A complete multitrack production editor lives in the same browser window as your log. Cut spots, build promos, layer voice over beds and SFX, and publish the finished cart straight into the library — tagged, marked and normalised, with no export step and no separate DAW licence. A dedicated Segue Editor gives you sample-level control of every transition on the log: overlap, ramp, fade shape and EOM, auditioned live through the real engine so what you hear is exactly what airs.

  • Multitrack editor — unlimited layers of voice, music and SFX with per-track processing
  • Publish straight to the library — no render-and-import round trip
  • Segue Editor — shape every transition and audition it through the live engine
  • Produce from home, from the road, from any machine — and export standard files to any automation
Production — multitrack editor
SESSION · SUNSHINE FORD :60
TRK 1  VOICE  ▂▅▇▅▃▆▇▄▂▅▇▃▅
TRK 2  BED    ▃▃▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▃▃▂
TRK 3  SFX    ▁▁▇▁▁▁▁▁▆▁▁▁▁
TRK 4  TAG    ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▅▇▅▂
EDIT NORMALISE & MARK PUBLISHED TO LIBRARY
15 Profanity Delay · Word Watch & Content Scanner

Software Profanity Delay and content protection — no rack unit required

A full broadcast profanity delay runs in the engine: build delay transparently, dump on a key, and rebuild automatically — with no outboard box in the rack and no extra hardware to fail. Behind it, Word Watch and the Content Scanner analyse every file in your library, not just what's live: flagged language is surfaced before the song ever reaches a log, and you decide whether to tag it, restrict it by daypart, or pull it entirely. Library Health rounds it out with missing markers, bad metadata, duplicates and dead files caught before they embarrass you on air.

  • Software delay — transparent build, one-key dump, automatic rebuild, no hardware
  • Word Watch & Content Scanner — every song analysed for flagged language before it can air
  • Library Health — missing markers, bad metadata, duplicates and dead files caught early
  • Runs in the signal path — protects the air even when a third-party automation is driving it
Delay & Content Protection
DELAY · ARMED
BUILD  7.5s BANKED
DUMP   READY
SCAN   3 TRACKS FLAGGED
HEALTH LIBRARY CLEAN
LIVE AUDIO DELAY BANK PROTECTED AIR
16 Requests & Tune-Out Tracking

Radio Request & Tune-Out Tracking — let your listeners tell you what they like

Request and tune-out tracking ties directly into the scheduler for better music scheduling. Every request is a vote, and every tune-out is a signal — AirWaves feeds both back into the rotation so your clocks reflect what's actually working with your audience. Requests respect your format: listener picks flow only into the clock positions you open, in a true managed queue, and on air a request sounds exactly like a scheduled spin, because it is one.

  • Tune-out tracking feeds the scheduler — surface what's driving listeners away
  • Clock-aware request queue with auto-air or approval mode
  • Audience Insights ranks hottest tracks (today / week / month) and request momentum
  • Cooldowns, duplicate & recently-played protection, hard-filtered public library
Library / Music Store — 84,530-song catalog
AirWaves library and music store catalog with intro, EOM, time and price columns
17 AirPhone · Guest & Interview Links

Radio Phone Hybrid Software — calls, texts and live guests straight from the browser

AirPhone is a 10-line call-in board your talent and screeners run from any browser — no hardware phone system. Callers reach you over a WebRTC caller page or your station's Telnyx SIP trunk. For interviews, a guest-login link lets a guest enter a code and join the studio session in the browser — no app, no phone number — for easy live broadcasts.

  • Ten live lines with Screen · Hold · Air · Mute · Drop · Ban per line
  • Guest / interview direct links via AirLink — join the studio in a browser
  • Studio Chat, Banned Callers, and two-way Listener Texts in one screen
  • WebRTC caller page or Telnyx SIP trunk, per station
AirPhone — 10-line call-in board
AirPhone 10-line call-in board with screening, studio chat and listener texts
18 Syndication Format · Produced · Live

Radio Syndication Software — syndicate your station three ways to unlimited affiliates

Whether you send a whole format, a produced show, or your live air, AirWaves carries it to any number of affiliates at once. Local breaks and split-copy fire automatically at each station, and cleared spots flow back into AirWaves Traffic for affidavits and network billing.

01 · FORMAT

Format Syndication

Deliver an entire format — clocks, categories, music, and imaging — to affiliate stations that air your programmed sound around the clock, kept fresh from the origin.

  • Whole-format delivery — music, clocks & imaging as one package
  • Affiliates run your sound 24/7 with local breaks dropped in
  • Centrally updated — refresh the format once, every affiliate follows
02 · PRODUCED

Produced Syndication

Distribute prerecorded and produced shows through AirVault. Every affiliate pulls clean, tagged, marked, ready-to-air files on schedule — no manual handoff.

  • AirVault delivery — tagged, marked, format-correct files
  • Scheduled pulls — the show is on each affiliate's log automatically
  • Perfect for dayparts, weekend shows, and voice-tracked programs
03 · LIVE

Live Syndication

Broadcast your live studio to unlimited affiliates with LiveSend. One feed goes out to every downstream station at once, with automatic local breaks and split-copy per affiliate.

  • LiveSend — one live feed to unlimited AirWaves stations
  • Automatic breaks & split-copy — local spots fire hands-free
  • Rain-delay & cancellation signaling for live sports and events
LiveSend — live syndication fan-out
ORIGINYour Station
Affiliate 1local break ✓
Affiliate 2split-copy ✓
Affiliate 3local break ✓
+ unlimitedAirWaves stations
19 AirVault · Backup & Disaster Recovery

Radio Backup & Disaster Recovery — a station that never goes dark

AirVault keeps a protected, off-machine copy of your audio and content, so a failed drive, a wiped studio, or a lost machine is an inconvenience, not a catastrophe. Restore a single file or rebuild a whole library from the vault. And because AirWaves is engine-first, you can place a second AirWaves engine right at the transmitter as a live, hot backup — if the studio link drops, the transmitter-side engine keeps the station on air without skipping a beat.

  • Safe, protected backup of every file — secured off the studio machine
  • Fast recovery from catastrophic failure — restore one file or rebuild the whole library
  • Live backup engine at the transmitter — keeps you on air if the studio link drops
  • Stream or hand off to a second AirWaves engine and don't skip a beat
AirVault — protected backup & failover
STUDIOPrimary Engine
AIRVAULTProtected Backup
⚠ studio link lost
TRANSMITTERLive Backup Engine● ON AIR
20 Distributed Platform · Local-Fast, Globally Controlled

Multi-Station Radio Platform — pure local speed, global reach

Every site runs its own AirWaves engine on its own server — so on-air response is pure local and instant, with no round-trip to the cloud between a fader move and the air. Those local engines connect into one distributed platform you control from anywhere, giving you a single pane of glass over a national network or a single station. Local resilience, central command — manage one station as easily as a hundred.

  • Pure local, fast-responding — the engine runs on-site, no cloud lag on air
  • Globally distributed control — run every site from one place, from anywhere
  • Scales cleanly from a single station to a large multi-market network
  • Local resilience — a site keeps running even if the network link goes down
AirWaves — distributed control plane
CONTROLNetwork Operations
Market Alocal engine
Market Blocal engine
Market Clocal engine
one platform · local-fast on air · controlled globally
21 Proof of Performance · Advertiser Client Portal

Radio Proof of Performance — hand a client the actual audio, not a spreadsheet

Because the Skimmer records your air continuously and knows the log, AirWaves isolates each advertiser's spot automatically as it airs. Proof of Performance HQ collects every occurrence with its timestamp, and a branded client portal lets your advertiser log in and hear their own schedule as aired — no request to traffic, no digging through recordings, no waiting. Affidavits, invoices and as-aired reports come out of the same data, so nobody reconciles anything by hand.

  • Automatic per-advertiser spot capture — every airing isolated and timestamped
  • Advertiser client portal — clients hear their own spots as aired, on demand
  • Affidavits, as-aired reports and invoices generated from the same verified data
  • Works on any station you can feed audio and a log from — including third-party automation
Proof of Performance HQ
CLIENT · SUNSHINE FORD · THIS WEEK
MON 07:22:14  :60  ▶ AIRED
MON 12:48:03  :30  ▶ AIRED
TUE 07:19:51  :60  ▶ AIRED
TUE 16:05:37  :30  ▶ AIRED
SPOT AIRS AUTO-ISOLATED CLIENT HEARS IT
22 Reports · Analytics & Listener Data

Radio Reporting Software — one set of numbers for programming, sales and ownership

When automation, scheduling, traffic, streaming and the website all run on one database, reporting stops being an act of reconciliation. Rotation and turnover dashboards show category health, spins and search depth. Listener analytics tie streaming sessions, requests, tune-out signals and app activity to what actually aired. Revenue, receivables, network clearance and yield reporting come from the same ledger that billed the spot. And a full audit trail records who changed what, when — across every module.

  • Rotation & turnover dashboards — category health, spins, search depth, burn
  • Listener database & analytics — streaming, requests, tune-out and app engagement in one view
  • Revenue, AR, clearance and on-air yield reporting from the billing ledger itself
  • Full audit trail — every change, every user, every module, permanently recorded
Reports — rotation & revenue
CATEGORY HEALTH · 7 DAYS
POWER    ████████████ OK
CURRENT  █████████ OK
RECURRENT ██████ THIN
GOLD     ██████████████ OK
ONE DATABASE ONE SET OF NUMBERS
23 AirMonitor · AirWatcher & Alerts

Silence detection and system monitoring that wake somebody up

AirMonitor watches the actual audio leaving the station — silence, low level, stuck audio, a dead stream — and escalates before a listener calls. AirWatcher watches the machine underneath it: services, disk, database, engine health and network links, with the same forward-looking checks that let the automation warn you about a fault before it happens. Alerts route by station, by role and by time of day, so overnight problems reach the person who's actually on call.

  • Silence & dead-air detection on air and on stream, with automatic failover
  • System watchdog — services, disk, database, engine and network health
  • Predictive warnings — flagged before the fault, not after the dead air
  • Role- and daypart-aware alert routing across every station in the cluster
AirMonitor — station health
CLUSTER STATUS
WXYZ-FM  AIR  STREAM  ENGINE
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24 Show Prep · The Rack & Show Sheets First in radio

Radio Show Prep Software — prep that knows your log

Every other prep service sells the same thing: a sheet of stories a jock reads and retypes. AirWaves builds your whole prep rack overnight — headlines, entertainment, sports, weird news, trivia, birthdays, this-day-in-history — and then does what no outside service can: it reads tomorrow's actual music log and writes talk-ups fitted to the real intro ramp of each song, timed to land right where the vocal starts. Every story arrives in seven forms — tease, 10-second, 30-second, talk-up, phone-opener, take and social post — written in your format's voice. Build hour-by-hour Show Sheets, print at 5:40am, or email the night-before digest. And if nobody shows up, hand any item to the AI DJ and the break still airs, in the on-duty persona's voice.

  • Ramp-fitted talk-ups — written to the exact intro of the songs actually scheduled
  • One story, seven forms — tease, reads, talk-up, question, take and social, with rotating wordings
  • Show Sheets with Autofill — an hour-by-hour rundown, printable and emailed to your airstaff
  • Feeds the AI DJ with a per-item human veto — plus artist prep, weather hooks, listener requests and your own newsroom

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Show Prep — today's rack
MORNING SHEET · 6:00 HOUR
6:08  TALK-UP · :12 RAMP  FITTED
6:15  THIS DAY IN HISTORY  30-SEC
6:24  PHONE TOPIC  QUESTION
6:40  ARTIST PREP · ON THE LOG  TAKE
BUILT OVERNIGHT FITTED TO THE LOG JOCK OR AI DJ
Music Formats

Radio music libraries in every format — curated and tested for your market

Launch on any format you can name. AirWaves ships with professionally programmed libraries across every major radio format, and each one is more than a bulk music dump: songs are hand-curated, market-tested, and researched so the rotation reflects what real audiences actually respond to. Clocks, categories, and energy flow come pre-built and ready to tune to your sound — start airing in minutes, not months.

Featured Format

Christian & Contemporary Christian

A complete faith-based offering — Contemporary Christian (CCM), Christian Hit Radio, Worship, Southern Gospel, and Christian AC — built for stations that lead with a message. Uplifting, family-safe rotations with the depth to program a full broadcast day, tuned to the artists and songs your congregation and community connect with.

CCM · Worship · Christian Hits · Southern Gospel · Christian AC · Inspirational
Featured Format

Classic Country

The heart of American radio — the traditional country hits of the 1950s through the 1990s, from Hank Williams and Johnny Cash to Merle Haggard, George Strait, and Reba. A deep, well-researched Classic Country library that keeps loyal listeners locked in, with the era balance and gold rotation dialed in for your market.

Cash · Haggard · Jones · Strait · Twain · McGraw · Williams
All formats available — a partial list
Christian / CCM
Classic Country
Country
Contemporary Country
Top 40 / CHR
Rhythmic CHR
Adult Contemporary
Hot AC
Soft AC
Urban AC
Urban Contemporary
Classic Hits
Oldies
Classic Rock
Rock
Active Rock
Alternative
Adult Album Alternative
80s
90s
Adult Hits
Americana
Bluegrass
Folk
Blues
Hip-Hop
Classic Hip-Hop
Rhythmic Oldies
Dance / EDM
Jazz
Smooth Jazz
Classical
Easy Listening
Nostalgia
Gospel
Southern Gospel
Worship
Contemporary Christian
Spanish / Latino
Regional Mexican
Tejano
Tropical
Spanish Hits
Caribbean / Reggae
Variety
Children's
Holiday / Christmas
News / Talk
Sports

Don't see your format, or run something all your own? AirWaves plays any library you bring — import your own music, blend formats, or build a custom sound. The scheduler, clocks, and processing adapt to whatever you put on the air.

Why it only works as one platform

Things no one else does — built in, automatic.

Every spotlight above shares one engine, one database, one bill. That's what lets AirWaves do things the rest of the industry can't — because it was built from the engine up, in our own code. Judge any module on its own and it beats the specialist product it replaces; run them together and they do things no combination of separate vendors can. And every one of them will run against the automation system you already own.

Exclusive Capability

Separate automation for Air and Stream — at the same time

Run your over-the-air signal and your online stream as independent, fully-automated chains simultaneously. Different ads, different content, different events firing on each — automatically, with no second system and no manual juggling. This is the single biggest gap in every other platform, and AirWaves closes it.

Air and Stream independent automation chains
Unique

Automatic markers & full metadata — written into the file

AirWaves detects Artist, Title, Intro and EOM and writes complete metadata and the markers themselves directly into every song — automatically. No other system sets markers in the file for you. Your library tags and cues itself.

Proprietary

Our own engine, our own algorithms

The real-time audio engine and processing algorithms are written entirely in-house in C++ — not assembled from public libraries. That means performance, sound, and behavior we control end to end, and capabilities competitors can't license or copy.

No Studio Installs

Completely UI-based — control from any screen

No software to install on every studio machine, no per-seat client. The entire platform runs through the browser with custom interfaces — so any screen, anywhere, becomes a fully-capable control surface.

Per-User

Every user designs their own interface

Drag-and-drop UI building, per user. Operators, PDs, traffic, and sales each get a surface tailored to their job — and can edit it themselves. PD lockdown keeps critical functions protected; every function is isolated and individually configurable.

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On-Air & Radio Automation Software

Real-time audio engine

A custom C++ engine drives playout with sample-accurate mixing, multi-output routing, and rock-solid timing — the core nothing else matches.

Processing per audio source

A full broadcast processing chain — AGC, multiband, EQ, bass, final limiting — applied independently to each source, not just the master.

Automatic file processing

Artist, Title, Intro and EOM detected and written into every file — markers and metadata set automatically as audio arrives.

Air + Stream events, separately

Independent, automatic event triggers for your broadcast and your stream — different ads and content on each, at once.

Remote voicetrack & production

Voicetrack and produce from anywhere — full production tools delivered through the browser, no studio seat required.

World-class music scheduling

Format clocks, song categories, and a full rule tree — artist/title separation, sound codes, dayparting — generating balanced logs in-house.

Automatic multi-live with AirLink

Bring multiple live remote sources on air automatically — AirLink manages contribution feeds and switching without a hand on the board.

AI weather & newscasts

Weathercast and AI Newscasts write and voice themselves from live data and news feeds, air from your clocks, and carry sponsors — tracked and billed through traffic.

AirWaves mobile playlist viewPlaylist
AirWaves mobile controls — Go To AirLive controls
Run it from your pocket

Live on-air control, from your phone

Take command of the live broadcast from a phone or tablet — fire events, take calls, drive segments, go live. The whole operation travels with you.

  • Full live on-air capability, not just monitoring
  • Remote voicetracking and production from any device
  • Custom mobile control surfaces per user
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Talk Radio, Remote & Connectivity

10-line talk phone hybrid

A full call-in system with ten lines, an integrated screener, and two-way texting — manage callers and listeners from one screen.

Two-way texting & screener

Screen callers, exchange texts with listeners, and queue the best calls to air — built into the talk-show workflow.

Virtual mixer — console replacement

A software mixing surface that replaces the studio console: faders, routing, and processing without the hardware.

Multi-site contribution

Connect remote talent, satellite studios, and field contributors into one unified air chain over the network.

Live source switching

Bring sources on and off air cleanly with automatic handling, monitoring, and failover.

Mobile app builder

Build branded listener mobile apps from the platform — your station in the app stores, tied to your live stream.

03

Radio Traffic, Billing & Sales Software

Full traffic & scheduling

Complete traffic system — orders, copy, logs, breaks, and reconciliation — with multi-station and cluster scope built in.

Billing, AR & general ledger

Accrual-on-airing billing, double-entry journals, accounts receivable, and a lean chart of accounts — broadcast accounting, integrated.

Network clearance

Affiliate management, affidavits, and clearance — bill on cleared spots across a national network from one ledger.

Sales associate portal

Remote, on-site order entry for your sales team — and direct-to-air ad placement, so a sold spot can hit the log from the field.

Direct-to-air placement

Approved orders flow straight into the schedule — from sale to broadcast with the approval workflow you set.

Workflow & CRM

Track clients, tasks, and approvals across sales, production, and traffic in one connected workflow and CRM.

Political ad research

Scans competitors' public political files and surfaces every political buy on their stations — so you know exactly which campaigns and PACs to target.

Political ad research

See every political dollar your competitors are taking

Political advertising files are public — and AirWaves reads them for you. The Political Ad Research tool scans your competitors' public inspection files and surfaces every political order running on their stations: who bought, which campaign or PAC, how much, and when it aired. Instead of guessing where the political money is going, you get a target list of exactly which candidates, committees, and issue groups to call — the ones already spending in your market.

  • Scans competitor public files — automatically pulls the political disclosures other stations are required to post
  • Reveals who's buying — campaigns, PACs, and issue groups advertising on rival stations, with spend and flight dates
  • Builds your target list — know exactly who to pitch, and what they're already paying elsewhere
  • Feeds straight into Traffic & CRM — turn a competitor's political buy into your next order
POLITICAL AD RESEARCH SCANNING PUBLIC FILES WXYZ-FM · public file KABC-AM · public file WQRS-FM · public file POLITICAL BUYS FOUND Friends of J. Carter $18,400 Candidate · WXYZ · Oct 6\u201328 Growth PAC $12,750 PAC · KABC · Oct 1\u201320 Citizens for Prop 12 $9,200 Issue · WQRS · Sep 25\u2013Oct 15 Re-Elect Nguyen $7,600 Candidate · WXYZ · Oct 10\u201330 4 buyers spending in-market \u2014 not on your station TARGET ALL
Content & distribution

Radio Music Store & Library Management — stock your library and protect it

A built-in music store with format subscriptions delivers fresh, broadcast-ready audio on a schedule — files arrive tagged, marked, and in your format. AirVault protects and distributes your content across the operation.

  • Music store with genre & format subscriptions
  • Auto-delivery — new files arrive tagged and marked
  • AirVault content protection & secure distribution
  • Cluster & network distribution for mass deployment
AirWaves music store with format subscriptions and auto-delivery
Skimmer & Logger

Radio Skimmer & Logger Software — record everything, recall anything

The built-in Skimmer continuously captures your air, so nothing is ever lost. Roll back the last hour, pull a clean aircheck of any break, or hand an advertiser proof-of-performance in seconds — all from one always-on recorder that runs quietly in the background.

  • Auto client-ad capture — isolates each advertiser's spot automatically for instant proof-of-performance
  • Airchecks on demand — grab talent breaks and segments for coaching, promos, or archives
  • Time-shift recording — scrub back to any moment and replay or export what just aired
  • Continuous logging for compliance, disputes, and archive — searchable by time and event
SKIMMER REC 24/7 PROGRAM MIC / TALENT SPOTS STREAM CLIENT AD -60m -30m -10m LIVE TIME-SHIFT ◄►
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Enterprise Radio Platform & Security

Distributed unified platform

Enterprise-class architecture spanning sites, clusters, and a national network — one platform, centrally controlled, locally resilient.

Cluster & network control

Manage and distribute content, logs, and configuration to many stations at once for true mass deployment.

Custom UI per user

Drag-and-drop interface building for every user — each person builds and edits the exact surface their role needs.

PD lockdown & isolation

Program directors lock down critical functions; every function is isolated and individually configurable per user and role.

Weather & EAS

Integrated weather and Emergency Alert System handling — automated, compliant, and on air when it matters.

One server per site

Each site runs its own dedicated server with our custom engine — your operation, your hardware, your data.

05

Every Other Module in the Platform

Nothing on this list is an add-on, a partner product, or a licence you buy separately — it all ships in the same platform, on the same database, under the same login. And like everything else in AirWaves, each of these will work alongside the automation system you already run.

Network traffic & affiliate clearance

Run a national network from one ledger: affiliate management, barter and cash orders, split-copy, affidavits, clearance and network billing — with affiliates on AirWaves or on someone else's automation.

Audio import & auto-tagging

Drop files in and the import pipeline does the rest: format conversion, LUFS measurement and normalisation, artist/title/intro/EOM detection, and auto-tagging into the right category — thousands of files at a time.

Metadata, RDS & now-playing

Push accurate now-playing to RDS, your stream, your website, your app and third-party directories — driven by what the engine actually played, not by what the log predicted.

Triggers, closures & satellite

Full trigger and relay handling for satellite networks, remote closures and external devices — start, stop, join and rejoin network programming automatically.

Hot buttons & instant carts

Configurable instant-play panels for jingles, drops, beds and effects — per user, per studio, per show, laid out however the talent wants them.

Commands & macros

Chain any sequence of platform actions into a single command — smart carts that automate complex, multi-step tasks and fire from the log, a hot button, a trigger or a schedule.

Events & event monitor

An exclusive event scheduler that doesn't care how long an event runs, plus a live event monitor showing exactly what fired, what's pending, and what got skipped.

Dynamic ad insertion

Sell against the stream and the site with dynamic, targeted ad insertion — separate from the over-air log, tracked and billed through the same traffic system.

Announcements & community calendar

Community announcements, PSAs, swap shop and event listings scheduled into the clock and published to the website and app at the same time.

Remote contributors

Bring reporters, correspondents and remote talent into the operation with their own logins, upload paths and approval workflow — no VPN, no FTP.

Rotators & smart carts

Rotating cart groups with weighting, dayparting and expiry — for imaging, promos, PSAs and multi-copy advertiser schedules.

Library & library health

A full library manager over a centralised catalogue, with health analysis for missing markers, bad metadata, duplicates, dead files and category imbalance.

Text-to-speech voice talent

A managed library of studio-grade AI voices for imaging, DJ breaks, weather, news and spots — assign a voice per station, per element, or per persona.

AirLink multiparty live audio

Multi-party live contribution with automatic mix-minus — remotes, guests, satellite studios and field reporters brought on air without a board op.

Time-shift & delayed programming

Record a live show once and air it later on any station in the group, at any offset, with breaks and local content re-fired correctly for each airing.

Role-based security & PD lockdown

Granular per-page, per-function permissions with program-director lockdown, per-user daypart limits and cluster-wide role management.

Audit trail

Every change to a log, clock, order, cart or setting is recorded with the user and timestamp — for compliance, for disputes, and for finding out what actually happened at 3 a.m.

Client & staff portals

Separate branded portals for advertisers, sales staff and station personnel — each seeing only what their role should see.

Weather & EAS

Integrated weather data and Emergency Alert System handling — automated, compliant, and on air when it matters.

In-app help & onboarding

Contextual help throughout the platform, so new operators get answers on the screen they're stuck on instead of in a PDF.

Under the hood

Engineered from the core up — in our own code.

AirWaves doesn't wrap someone else's playout core or license a third-party audio engine. The engine, the processing, and the algorithms are ours — which is exactly why we can do what others can't.

CUSTOM C++ ENGINE

Built, not borrowed

A purpose-built real-time audio engine in native C++ — no public libraries — for performance and behavior we control end to end.

PROPRIETARY DSP

Our own algorithms

Processing and detection algorithms developed in-house, tuned for broadcast and impossible for competitors to license.

PER-SOURCE

Independent processing

A complete processing chain on every source, not just the master bus — clean, consistent sound across the whole signal path.

ONE SERVER / SITE

Owned & resilient

Each location runs a dedicated server, networked into the cluster — local performance with central control and distribution.

Per-source broadcast processing chain
FAQ

Radio automation and music scheduling software, answered

AirWaves is all-in-one radio automation and playout software that runs your entire station from one platform: music scheduling, traffic and billing, AI radio imaging, AI DJ personas, voice tracking, multitrack production, live and produced syndication, streaming with ad insertion, software audio processing, a newsroom, a browser phone hybrid, and website and app builders. It runs in the browser with nothing to install on the studio machine. Every module is also available standalone and works with any third-party automation system.

Yes. Every AirWaves module is built to run standalone and feed any automation system — not just AirWaves. The music scheduler exports logs your current automation can read; AI Imaging, AI DJ, Weathercast and AI Newscasts write finished, marked audio files with full metadata into any library; Traffic and Billing exports logs and reconciles as-aired data from third-party playout; and the AirTools processor, profanity delay, skimmer, streaming encoder and virtual mixer sit in the signal path regardless of what is driving the air chain. You do not have to replace your automation to use them — adopt one module at a time and migrate on your own schedule.

Yes — full music scheduling is built in, not a bolt-on or a third-party integration. AirWaves music scheduling includes format clocks, Power/Current/Recurrent/Gold category rotations, a complete rule tree with artist and title separation, dayparting and sound codes, breakable and unbreakable rules across a multi-pass engine, optimum goals with graceful category fallback, turnover and search-depth analysis, and multi-day auto-build. Its exclusive Shape of the Day energy arc and Flow Sequencing let you program the feel of the hour, not just the song order — something no other music scheduler does. Because it feeds the automation engine directly there is no exporting and importing logs, and it also exports logs for third-party automation systems.

Yes. The AI Imaging Producer writes and voices sweepers, liners, promos, legal IDs and imaging phrases in your station's voices, with sound effects and beds, and drops the finished audio straight into your imaging categories — tagged, marked and ready to air. AI DJ personas voice breaks, intros, outros, trivia and song context in a persona you define, using a text-to-speech voice talent library. Both write standard audio files with full metadata, so they also work with any third-party automation.

Yes. Voice tracking runs in the browser from anywhere with in-context markers, per-user daypart restriction, cross-day pending-marker worklists, fill attribution and a Program Director station coverage view. A full multitrack production studio and audio editor is built into the same platform, along with a segue editor for fine playout control — no separate DAW licence and no studio seat required.

Yes. A software profanity delay runs in the engine with build and dump control, and Word Watch plus the Content Scanner analyse every song in your library for flagged language, alerting you and optionally flagging or removing the track before it ever reaches the log.

Yes. AirWaves includes a complete radio traffic and billing system with orders, copy, logs, breaks, reconciliation, accrual-on-airing billing, accounts receivable, a general ledger, network clearance, and multi-station and cluster scope. A sold ad can flow from order to air in minutes.

AirWaves syndicates three ways to unlimited affiliates: Format Syndication (an entire programmed format), Produced Syndication (prerecorded shows delivered through AirVault), and Live Syndication (live air via LiveSend). Local breaks and split-copy fire automatically at each affiliate, and cleared spots flow back into traffic for affidavits and billing.

No. AirWaves is delivered through the browser with no applications or EXEs to install on the studio machine, while the proprietary engine runs locally on one server per site for the speed and reliability of on-site technology plus the scale of a distributed cloud platform.

Yes. Weathercast builds AI-written, AI-voiced local weather from live forecast data and National Weather Service alerts — with rotating nearby-town temperatures — scheduled straight into your clocks, and it's sellable: sponsor flights can be tagged on or woven into the forecast and are play-tracked for billing. AI Newscasts work the same way for local and national news, voiced in your station's news voice and timed to fit the break.

AirWaves includes a full software broadcast audio processor: AGC, parametric EQ, adaptive auto-EQ, multiband compression, bass enhancement, exciter, stereo imaging and tube warmth, splitting into a separately tuned FM air path (loudness clipper) and stream path (LUFS and true-peak), with per-output loudness targets for FM, stream, mobile, podcast, and DAB+. It runs in the engine with no outboard rack, applies per audio source rather than only to the master bus, and can process the signal path for a third-party automation system as well.

Yes. The Skimmer records your air continuously and isolates each advertiser's spot automatically, so proof of performance is a click rather than an afternoon. Proof of Performance HQ and an advertiser client portal let clients see and hear their own schedule as aired, and the reporting suite covers as-aired logs, reconciliation, rotation and turnover dashboards, listener and request analytics, revenue and accounts receivable, and a full audit trail.

Yes. AirWaves Show Prep builds a full daily rack overnight — headlines, entertainment, sports, weird news, trivia, birthdays, this-day-in-history and more — and, because it owns your playout log, it writes talk-ups fitted to the exact intro ramp of the songs actually scheduled. Stories come in seven forms, from a five-second tease to a phone-opener question and a ready-to-post social. Jocks work from hour-by-hour Show Sheets, printable or emailed the night before, and any item can be handed to the AI DJ so the break airs even when nobody is in the studio.

Yes. Each site runs its own AirWaves engine on its own server for local, instant on-air response, and those engines connect into one distributed platform controlled from anywhere. Traffic, billing, network clearance, the music library and configuration are all cluster and network aware, so managing a hundred stations works the same way as managing one.

A world-class enterprise platform
for serious broadcasters.

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