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Announcing The Back To School 2021 Winners

Aleksandar Brajanoski — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 12:55:27 +0000

We are proud to announce the winners of this year’s Airtime Pro Back To School competition, which had more applications than ever proving that radio, and particularly internet radio, remains a strong medium of communication.

Teams from 19 countries submitted more than 100 internet radio station proposals for award consideration, including Nigeria, India, France, Haiti, the United States, Ghana, Gambia, Canada, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Liberia, Belgium, Armenia, Switzerland, Kenya, Somalia, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Bulgaria.

Even more applications came in where we were not able to determine the country of origin.

Given the great response, we have decided to expand the prize pool. The three main winners will receive an Airtime Pro station free of charge for 12 months. But we are also giving away 12 additional Airtime Pro station subscriptions to second place teams. free of charge for 6 months.

So, without further ado, here are the winners:

First prize:

Radio Gurune 99.3fm – Ghana
Etikett Radio – Germany
NMA On Air – Bulgaria

Second prize:

Mkveducation – India
Lire et Faire Lire – France
Albert Gallatin High School Radio – USA
P97 The Mix – Canada
Nawis-radio – Saudi Arabia
K-SOUTH 93.4 – USA
Belgahay Radio BXL (BH+) – Belgium
Radio CM Saint Francois – Switzerland
WBMT – USA
Interrational – Switzerland
GACUDT – India
KU Radio – UK

Congratulations to everyone!

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Announcing the Winners of Our Back-to-School Station Giveaway

Aleksandar Brajanoski — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:32:10 +0000

Airtime Pro will help students around the world learn from home via internet radio

Last month we launched a campaign to help schools and educational institutions cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. In partnership with World Radio Day, we are giving away 10 Airtime Pro stations for one year to 10 organizations in different parts of the world broadcasting to learners at home. Here’s a brief description of the of our Back-to-School Station Giveaway winners and their plans:

CECO, Uganda

Aims to broadcast educational information in the following areas for students learning from home in Uganda: environmental education, climate change, organic agriculture, gender training, and life skills for youth.

Radio Art Laboratory, Germany

Operating from an art academy in Leipzig, this station plans to use Airtime Pro to expand its workshops in media arts and give students new creative possibilities through internet radio.

School:
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig)

Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/soundartlab/
https://www.facebook.com/sndartlab
https://www.mixcloud.com/soundartlab/
https://soundcloud.com/soundartlab

Radio Universitaria, Peru

An FM 89.5 local radio station located at the National University of the Center of Peru, this station aims to broadcast social project content for university community and general education.

USCtt, Trinidad and Tobago

This upcoming radio station of the University of Southern Caribbean plans to support the university’s existing distance learning options through internet radio.

BB Radio, USA

Beaubourg School in New Orleans, Louisiana, is a free school focusing on artistic and social research as well as community knowledge sharing through stories, dramas, conversations, and guided meditations.

BB Radio is an extension of The Beaubourg Theatre (@bea.ubo.urg), a public arts space and arts organization in Bulbancha (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA). Along with, The Beaubourg School (@thebeaubourgschool) and Fourth Wall Coffee (@fourth.wall.coffee), BB Radio aims to strengthen existing communities and create new ones by offering opportunities for artistic experimentation as well as engaged dialogue and learning. The station will launch in January of 2021!

School:
The Beaubourg School

Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/bea.ubo.urg/

SunFM, Malaysia

This new campus radio station and podcast facility hopes to be a voice for students and the campus community, as well as a training ground for students to learn how to do radio shows and podcasts.

Website:
https://university.sunway.edu.my/SunFM

School:
School of Arts, Sunway University

Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/sunwayfm/
https://www.facebook.com/sunwayfm/

Acústica, Colombia

This station associated with EAFIT university in Medellin aims to provide educational as well as inspirational programming to students.

School:
Universidad EAFIT

Station website:
https://acustica.eafit.edu.co/

The Tiger Takeover, USA

A student-led online radio station at the University of Memphis, this campus livestream will provide entertaining and informative programming that represents the diversity of the student body.

WZRD Chicago, USA

A student-run radio station at Northeastern Illinois University that was founded back in 1974, its goals are to restore the pre-pandemic level of programming and eventually expand its offerings further.

Website:
https://wzrdchicago.org/

Social media:
https://www.facebook.com/wzrdchicago/
https://www.instagram.com/wzrdchicago/
https://twitter.com/wzrdchicago

We wish our winning stations all the best as they embark on their plans, and look forward to hearing back from them about the new and creative uses they find for Airtime Pro over the next year!

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Apps for All: Airtime Pro and Nobex Partners Join Forces to Help More Radio DJs Go Mobile

Aleksandar Brajanoski — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:58:13 +0000

Prague and Santa Cruz, CA – 12 April 2018

Airtime Pro (https://www.airtime.pro), the award winning internet radio broadcasting automation platform, and Nobex Partners, the provider of customizable mobile applications for radio broadcasters and podcasters, announced a partnership today. Nobex has been selected as the exclusive mobile app provider for Airtime Pro, bringing this long awaited feature to all Airtime Pro station owners. This partnership delivers Airtime Pro broadcasters highly personalized, engaging and monetizable mobile applications for their online radio stations and podcasts.

Why do internet DJs choose Airtime Pro? Our cloud-based radio station broadcasting software boasts a long list of industry-leading features, including advanced automation, DJ management, seamless transitions between live and scheduled programming, and social media widgets. Airtime Pro offers advanced technology that’s also fun to use, supporting broadcasters in their pursuit of delivering premium radio content.

Nobex mobile applications offers broadcasters a fully customized mobile app experience, from programming, to branding. In addition, broadcasters can earn revenue with the Nobex mobile app’s advertising feature.

The combination of Airtime Pro’s powerful broadcast automation technology with Nobex’s robust, fully-customizable mobile apps offers an instant mobile win for broadcasters. With mobile apps for all, broadcasters can streamline management of their online stations, easily monetize their content, and most of all, deliver an unparalleled experience to their listening audience.

Aleksandar Brajanoski, Airtime Pro Product Manager, says:

“We’re extremely happy to have Nobex by our side. Thanks to this partnership, we are now able to meet the huge demand for a customizable Station App in our client base. Furthermore, Nobex gives our DJs and station owners opportunity to monetize their stations, which comes as a nice bonus. We decided to go with Nobex because we think they have the best offering in the station app market.”

Cait Watson, VP Customer Success, Nobex Technologies, says:

“We’re really looking forward to helping Airtime Pro users get their own custom mobile apps. Setting up their station with Airtime Pro was easy, we want to make setting up their mobile app just as easy.”

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