Your festival needs a frequency.

A station before the gates open, an app in every pocket on site, and an archive that outlives the weekend.

A festival is a broadcast that nobody thought to broadcast. Weeks of anticipation, a line-up people obsess over, three days of moments that only the people standing in the right field ever hear. Give it a frequency and all of that changes shape.

Before: the build-up is content

Flip your station into festival mode and the line-up becomes your front page: stages, times, acts, blurbs. Run artist takeover shows in the weeks before. Let people favourite acts and get reminders. Your ticket announcement is no longer an Instagram post that vanishes in an hour, it's a campaign pinned to a site people keep coming back to.

During: the site-wide tannoy that people actually carry

Your festival gets its own app, iOS and Android, with the programme, the stream, chat and campaigns. And the part organisers care about most: push notifications.

• "Secret set, Stage 2, 20 minutes." Every pocket on site buzzes.
• "Car park B closes at 22:00 tonight." No more hoping the poster by the toilets does its job.
• "Weather's turning. Main stage moves to the big top." Said once, heard by everyone.

Meanwhile the station itself becomes part of the show. Each stage gets its own broadcast connection: hand your stage managers credentials and they're on air within their event window and physically can't broadcast outside it. Event managers run their own schedule inside the event without touching anything else.

After: the weekend, on demand

Every stage slot can be recorded automatically. Trim the good bits, publish them as Listen again, push the highlights to Mixcloud in one click, and let every set feed the artist pages. Your festival now has a body of work, not just a photo album.

The honest economics

One plan, £49/month, everything included: the station, the website, the apps, the push notifications, no per-listener fees. When the season ends, pause for £15/month. The site, the archive and every setting stay exactly as they were, ready for next year's announcement. You just can't broadcast while paused.