Every studio screen, script, bulletin and outside broadcast at Now Ayrshire Radio runs on systems we designed, built and operate — on the same intelligence plane as the rest of this site. We also build for Lomond Radio.
26 systems, placed where they sit in a day at the station. Green is on air or in daily use; amber is built and being proven before it goes near live output.
Idea bank, running orders and diary per show.
Scripts drafted for each show.
News, travel and weather reads, ready to go.
Council feeds watched; a read-on-air script when schools close.
Daily Ayrshire history, rotated so it never repeats.
Seven studio screens from one presenter console.
Server-synced — replaced a clock running five minutes slow.
Track and artist facts on a studio screen.
Live match centre for the football show.
Drop audio in; it's levelled, tagged and filed for playout.
AI switching across four studio cameras.
Live now-playing and playout state for every other system.
Every aired track logged for PRS and PPL returns.
EBU R128 loudness, dead-air and clipping, benchmarked against 20+ stations.
Shows stored with searchable transcripts.
Gets OB audio home even when both ends sit behind mobile or satellite NAT.
Browser sender, studio return, talkback and an engineering log.
The OB feed in the studio, with fader, meters and auto-reconnect.
Starlink, audio and battery at a glance on the OB laptop.
Myriad playout and a mix position, on the road.
Hour clocks and decks for OBs, with a Cleanfeed link.
One calendar and branded templates for every platform.
Weekly presenter picks, settled automatically, with a league table.
Can you hang your washing out? A live Ayr weather gauge.
The station's brand in animation: idents, reels, stings.
A pop-up FM station for the Ayr Show — see below.
Assets, sites, people, runbooks, tasks and incidents in one place, with an encrypted, audit-logged credential vault and passkey sign-in.
A knowledge base of 360+ equipment manuals, and small agents on the studio machines that report health, software and every soundcard — drawn as a live audio map.
A rebuilt studio network edge, running on two internet connections.
Alongside it, the staff intranet: station tools, the OB hub and live shared documents.
A restricted service licence for the Ayr Show on 4–5 September 2026: FM, a web stream and a website, alongside Now Ayrshire Radio's stand.
The transmitter feed ran unattended. We killed it on purpose in testing; it was back on air by itself in under two minutes.
Flight-track videos cut from the actual ADS-B trail of display aircraft — the same aviation data behind EGPK.info.
Faults reported by email become tracked tickets, so nothing a volunteer notices on a Saturday gets lost by Monday. Built for how a community station actually works: many hands, few engineers.
Switches between four studio cameras on its own and adds lower thirds. Installed and on test — not on live air until it's proven.
Reads playout and desk state passively, so camera cuts and the ON AIR light follow what's actually live.
An in-house restream to every social platform at once, replacing a paid service.
Screens, scripts, OBs or the whole stack — we build what a station needs and keep it running.