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Some coming changes to Underground FM

If you've visited our website before you may have noticed a significant design change. That's because we're currently working on upping our game to be able to better compete with other stations. In a free market dominated by big media companies, we're just a speck compared to Alpha Media, iHeart, and others. Because of that, we're trying to also bring our A-game to the table. For the past month, the station has been exclusively running on autopilot. This is a project maintained by just a few people, and because of this updating content takes a long time. In a month or two, this station will be operating at full tilt, with more content and less autopilot robot-ness. I hope sometime soon that Underground FM will be able to reach everyone, far and wide, via better radio range, and the internet with a better and updated web player. Please follow us along our journey, showing that a radio station doesn't need to be owned or run by big media to have an impact. We're not asking for financial support, all we're asking is for your interest to give us a listen, even if just now and then.

Submissions

If you or somebody you know would like to have a song or collection of them aired on this station, please visit our contact page. We are always looking for more great songs from local artists and musicians, or those that don't have a voice on the normal media in our area. Even if you don't personally know someone that you would like to be featured on this station, please contact us, it's the only way we can hear what our audience wants.

What's to come

We are in the works for 3 big projects, in no perticular order. The first is updating our content library, this includes more music, and also fixing some of our music that wasn't from high quality versions. (We're almost done with this one)
The second is a almost complete overhaul of our broadcasting setup, with this we will be able to have a separate and dedicated Remote Radio Head controller for the transmitter, and Audio Deck/Web Stream server, which was previously all done from the same streaming computer. This means that our internet radio stream server and audio deck will have less load on them, and allow more concurrent users. (We have completed this one)
The third is a upgrade to our FM transmitter, enabling longer ranges and stereo audio. We previously had stereo broadcasts but ended up disabling them because of concerns over range and occupied RF bandwidth, as we thought at the time interference with other stations was possible. (We're still working on this)
This should all play out in the next few months, with no concrete timeline of completion.

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