User:Charliebobgordon/TuneVibez

TuneVibez is an international internet radio station ran by a group of British teenagers. The station airs for a few hours in the evening on weekends and primarily gains their listeners from the social networking website, Twitter by asking users of the website to tweet about the station.

The station plays music primarily from indie record labels and artists like DFTBA records, Outasight, Dave Days and Music from Blue Skies. Although, they have gained more popular artists like Marina And The Diamonds.

The station uses an Icecast server to stream live audio to the stations listeners, the station currently streams at 56kbps but there are plans to raise this to 128kbps to provide better audio quality for the stations listeners.

The station was founded by 15 year old Andrew Brackin on December 26, 2009.

Content

People involved in running the station

TuneVibez has gained volunteers to manage the radio station over the past few months. The following are listed in order joined:

* Andrew Brackin (Producer, founder, presenter and DJ)
* Alexander Odam (Presenter and DJ)
* Grant Parkes (Presenter and DJ)
* Charlie Gordon (Website designer, presenter and DJ)
* Jonathan Rowntree (Co-producer, presenter and DJ)
* Liam Forkings (Presenter and DJ)
* Matthew Underwood (Presenter and DJ)

More detailed description of each DJ can be found on the TuneVibez website.

Music

TuneVibez broadcasts from a selection of artists and record labels that they have written permission to play on air. The station plays independent music, as well as more popular music from artists like Marina And The Diamonds.

Genres of music that TuneVibez plays include Rap, Hip Hop, Rock, House Music, Electronica, Dance Music, Drum N' Bass and Pop Music. The station also plays cover music, and humorous parodies.

Discussion Topics

The TuneVibez presenters use Twitter as a way to get the community interacting with the shows by them being able to talk to the presenters live on air.

Frequencies

The station is streamed in the Windows Media format via the "TuneVibez Player" at http://tunevibez.com/player/

but can also be listened to from mobile devices, and desktop applications such as Apple iTunes, VLC Media Player, Winamp or Windows Media Player

Website features

The TuneVibez website

was built by 14 year old Charlie Gordon. The website was created to allow users to interact with the station more.

Twitter chat

The TuneVibez website uses a Roomatic Twitter chat

that allows listeners to tweet about the station and communicate with the presenters and the other DJs.



Requesting songs

The website has a Request Tunes page

where the listeners can fill in a PHP contact form to request a song to be played on air. Listeners have a selection of artists to choose from.

Contacting the station

Users of the website are able to use the Contact page

to get in touch with Andrew Brackin, the founder of TuneVibez. They created the page so that artists and record labels that would like their songs on TuneVibez, can contact them, it's also used to report website issues.

Help pages

The webmaster created a help page

where users can visit the page to get assistance with using some of the website's features, as well as giving users ways to promote TuneVibez.



Founder

Andrew came up with the idea for TuneVibez in late 2009 after creating a few test streams under his company name Brackin Media. Andrew comes from South London in the UK and is 15 years old. In the past he has ran technology blogs such as TotallyTechBlog which has now been sold and has produced video content on YouTube since late 2006. Brackin Media has started a number of

Further reading

* Rowntree, Jonathan (2010-02-12). "Me and TuneVibez".
http://jonnyrowntree.com/2010/02/me-and-tunevibez/.

* Cec, CpFilmsLike (2009-02-13). "TuneVibez (YouTube video)".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_HuBA_lPXg.

* Underwood, Matthew. "TuneVibez".
http://www.greenmanvideos.com/#/tunevibez/4538463958.

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