Radio Benkovac has broadcast on 93.0 MHz for decades, and it carries exactly as far as the signal does. The station needed a site that takes the same programme further, plus news and podcasts a small newsroom has no time to retype.
The station makes a programme every day, and there is no one to type it into the website all over again at night. So we built it as a connector, not an archive: the player binds straight to the station's stream, the news arrives from other feeds, the episodes from its own YouTube channel. Nothing is entered twice — whatever went out on air or onto the channel simply shows up on the site.
We pinned the player to the bottom of the screen so it stays there while you read the news or pick an episode; the programme doesn't stop when you switch section. When the stream stalls, the player says so instead of going quiet. When you pause it, it disconnects from the source so it doesn't waste data in the background. Under it all is plain static with no CMS — it opens instantly, even on a weaker connection.
FM has an edge. The station can be heard across Ravni kotari and Bukovica, and no further — not to those who have moved away, nor to those just in the next room with a phone in hand. The second part of the problem was harder: everything meant to stay fresh on the site — the news, the episodes — would have to be entered by hand, every day. A newsroom that size can't keep that up for a month.
A static site with no CMS, with three connections. The player binds straight to the station's stream (128 kbps) and lives in a bar at the bottom of the screen, while a live listener count pulls the real figure every 30 seconds. The news is fetched by a service that walks six Zadar newsrooms and keeps only what mentions Benkovac, Bukovica or Ravni kotari. The podcast assembles itself from the station's channel — two playlists, episodes play in a window on the site. On mobile, navigation is a bottom bar with the LIVE button in the middle.
The programme now plays wherever there's a signal, and the site fills itself without a single manual entry. A story published in Zadarski list this morning is on the site by noon; an episode uploaded to the channel shows up on its own. The station does nothing for it — it makes radio, and the site assembles itself around that.
Radio is essentially one button: press it and the programme starts. On mobile, that button sits in the middle of the bottom bar, under your thumb. The gap between these two shots is one second:
Benkovac has its own news, but scattered across Zadar's portals. Instead of the newsroom gathering it by hand every morning, the site gathers it.
The station records the podcast and publishes it on its YouTube channel. The site picks it up from there — without anyone copying anything across.
We choose the technology to fit the job. Here the job called for the lightest possible site, with three services running on their own in the background.
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