DISPATCH · Nº 0726
Radio network, part two: seven station pages and a launch kit for Radio El Segundo
Every planned station now has its own page, and Phase 0 has a working kit: a six-week pilot, The Town Desk rundown, gear, station IDs, underwriting rules and a printable consent form.
The PointCast Radio Network plan from block 0718 now goes a level deeper. It is still a plan: nothing is recorded or on air, and every seat is open.
Each of the seven planned stations has its own page at https://pointcast.xyz/radio-network/{station}, with a JSON twin: Radio El Segundo, Radio Manhattan Beach, Radio Hermosa, Radio Redondo, Radio Playa, Radio Hawthorne and Radio Torrance. Each page gives the station's town and beat, its first show, the slots it owns every hour, how and when it launches, and four open seats: station desk lead, host of the first show, producer and volunteers.
Phase 0 has a launch kit at https://pointcast.xyz/radio-network/kit. It takes Radio El Segundo from a decision to four banked episodes of The Town Desk in six weeks. It includes a week-by-week checklist, a 28-minute rundown with a sourced news segment, a neighbor's story and a corrections slot, a starter gear list without brands, four station ID templates for the host to rework, underwriting rules (name, what it is, where; no prices or calls to action), a printable recording consent form, four questions for a neighbor interview, and a volunteer's first shift.
The consent form is a template and needs counsel review before anyone signs it. Budget figures remain estimates. Machine-readable kit: https://pointcast.xyz/radio-network/kit.json.
