Build your station’s website with CBAA's Radio Website Services
Many community broadcasters have faced challenges building websites from scratch, trying to keep up with technological updates, increasing service fees and ever-growing audience demands.
Our Radio Website Service solution for community radio stations aims to:
- Help all stations have the best quality online presence
- Save stations time with building and managing websites
- Save stations money with day-to-day maintenance, licensing and new website development fees
How do the CBAA's Radio Website Services work?
The CBAA’s Radio Website Services are a best-practice website solution built to match the needs of radio stations. They are designed to take the guesswork out of building your next website, to get you online fast, and keep your site up-to-date. Built with radio know-how by the CBAA, in partnership with industry leading technology services provider Media Realm, we think it’s the most powerful and user-friendly platform of its kind.
Whether you want all the bells and whistles or like to keep it simple, we've got you covered. With ongoing, dedicated CBAA website support this is a solution that removes the headaches of self-managed websites, so you can focus on creating great content.
What makes us better than other website building services?
The CBAA's Radio Website Services are built to meet the needs of all community radio stations. They make the process of creating and maintaining a high-quality website for your community radio station easy and affordable and take into account a radio station's unique digital requirements.
The CBAA will be there to support your station in the creation and maintenance of your website, with support, an eLearning course, a dedicated forum, and meetings to help you ensure that your website remains up to date, stable and secure regardless of the level of technical expertise at your station.
What do CBAA's Radio Website Services offer?
A Clear Online Identity
Your station can be easily recognised and found online with a station-owned domain name.
An Attractive and Professional Design
Appeal to listeners and sponsors with access to a design library with options to easily adjust your site's look and feel.
Revenue Generation Tools
Recieve income from donations, subscriptions, memberships and merchandise and event sales with online donation and membership forms connected to secure gateways including Stripe, eWay and SecurePay.
Easy Integration with Essential Digital Features
Feature your broadcast livestream so that your station can be heard anywhere, and provide listeners with recorded programs on-demand and podcasts so your station can be heard any time. Streaming via Triton Digital and podcasts via Omny Studio are provided through the CBAA as add-on services.
Expert Radio Website Support
Keep your site fast, secure and up to date with premium AWS hosting, managed CDN+WAF, and dedicated support from the CBAA and Media Realm, who understand the needs of radio stations.
Affordable and Easy Payment
Save money and make budgeting predictable with a low monthly fee, instead of paying a developer an upfront or hourly fee.
What do other community radio stations have to say?
"The CBAA Website service has allowed us to seamlessly integrate On Demand audio, podcasting and track listing into our site with automated workflows that respond to our program schedule. Through active development the team have integrated feature requests and continue to innovate in response to our needs as a community broadcaster."
Benjamin Erin, Station Manager, 8CCC, Alice Springs NT
Radio Website Services Features
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Live Streaming & On Demand Player Our Global Player allows listeners to keep listening to audio, even as they browse different pages on the site. Any audio (live or on demand) will play in the player, and it will keep playing even when they go to the next page. |
Program Guide Show users who’s on-air now, and what’s coming up. The Global Player updates these details in realtime, and stations can present their full guide using one of three beautiful layouts. |
Multi-Station Support Create as many live stations as you want, and the Global Player will make them all available to your listeners at the click of a button, complete with independent program guides and now-playing song data. |
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Live Song Data Using the power of MetaRadio, display the current song information on your website. We integrate with 20+ different automation systems, and if you don’t have an automation system we can pull data from ACRCloud (it’s like Shazam, but for your web stream). |
Song History Listeners love knowing what played. Show up to 30 days of song history, complete with album art, in a searchable song history page. |
Donations Your not-for-profit can accept donations using our best-practice donation forms. Create multiple landing pages to personalise the experience for specific campaigns and donor segments. Forward the donation details onto your CRM via Zapier. |
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On Demand & Catch Up Connect to your Omny Studio account, and get automatic recordings of your live on-air shows available on your website, ready to listen anytime. |
Podcasting Connect to your third-party podcast provider. Or create basic podcast feeds from within WordPress. |
Secure Payments & Forms Using Gravity Forms and Stripe, you can accept payments for any purpose you like! Including basic ticket purchasing, merchandise, and station membership. |
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Email Signups Accept email signups, and send the data direct to Mailerlite, MailChimp, or Campaign Monitor. |
CRM Integration Send any form submission to your CRM, using Zapier and Webhook integration. |
Blog & News Write articles and publish them with ease! Use WordPress’ powerful editor to create your content, and share it everywhere! |
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Block Editor We use the powerful WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) to create every page. We have created 20 bespoke blocks (and counting), specifically addressing the needs of radio stations. You also get access to all the standard WordPress blocks. |
Banner Ads Increase your revenue streams by placing banner ads across the site. We support multiple IAB standard ad sizes, and ensure they are placed responsively across your website. If you need advanced placement and reporting, connect Google Ad Manager. |
Google Analytics Keep track of your listeners and their browsing habits by connecting your site to Google Analytics. |
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Hosting & Updates Every site we launch is hosted and supported by us. We run your site on scalable AWS hosting, keep it backed up, test and run all the updates, and deal with any issues that may arise. You don’t need to worry about a thing! |
Community Directories Provide a connection point with your community by using our local directories. We have directories for Local Events, Local Businesses, and Job Ads. Provide listings for free, or charge any amount you like – it’s up to you! |
Webhooks Push data to Zapier, IFTTT, and other systems with our simple webhooks. Use this functionality to automatically post new content to social media, or send your form submissions to your CRM. |
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Keep Up To Date In addition to keeping WordPress up to date, we also are constantly developing new functionality. When you subscribe to our platform, you get access to the latest features without ever paying by the hour for a developer. |
Pick Your Design We have a gallery of design options. You can mix and match component themes to suit your individual tastes. |
Email Support Have a question? Need help? Reach out to our email support team. We also have an ever-growing online resource library. |
Feature list provided by Media Realm – Features may be subject to change as updates and improvements are made.
What do CBAA's Radio Website Services cost?
CBAA's Radio Website Services cost $100 a month for the Basic subscription and $150 a month for the Premium subscription. There are no up-front fees or hourly development costs.
Premium subscription features include:
- CRM integration using Profiler
- Now Playing/Song History integration (MetaRadio > Radio Automation System)
- Customised subscription and membership forms
- Webhooks
- Zapier form connections
- Google Ad Manager
- RSS Post import
Find out more
Call (02) 9310 2999 or email [email protected] to schedule a demonstration and discuss which package will best suit your needs.
The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) and Triton Digital have partnered to offer community radio stations robust and affordable audio streaming, on-demand and podcasting solutions. Discover the many benefits of each product below.
