Your media students need to work with real broadcast equipment — not software simulations or consumer gear.
Give students hands-on experience with real broadcast workflows.
Sound familiar?
- You’re equipping a media, journalism or communications facility and need something students can use without constant technical support.
- Your facility needs to teach both radio production and live broadcasting, but most equipment is designed for one or the other.
- Outside the curriculum, your students want to run their own radio station — but you can’t justify a second studio or the overhead of managing one.
How Aircaster fits
Students learn principles, not software
Faders, buttons, rotary controls — the fundamentals of broadcast mixing laid out clearly. One function per control, nothing hidden in menus.
Produce and broadcast from one desk
Isolated program and record mixes let you teach production and live broadcasting from the same studio — no need to duplicate equipment.
Teaching studio and student radio in one
Use Aircaster for structured coursework during the day and hand it over to student radio in the evening. Simple enough that students can run it independently.
No IT dependency
No operating system to maintain, no software updates during term time, no licence management. Switch on and teach — or broadcast.
Built for heavy use
Designed and assembled in the UK for daily professional environments. It will handle years of back-to-back sessions.
Procurement-friendly
One purchase, no subscriptions, no per-seat fees. Easy to budget, easy to justify to a funding panel.
Teaching broadcast fundamentals means students need to understand signal flow, gain structure and mixing — not how to navigate software menus. The Aircaster lays all of that out physically, one function per control. It’s a proper broadcast desk that teaches the principles, and the fact that it handles both production and live output from one surface means a single studio can serve the curriculum during the day and student radio in the evening. For a college media department, that’s a compelling proposition.
— John Collins
40+ years in radio — BBC Scotland sound engineer, award-winning commercial radio at Radio Forth, programme and MD roles across Scotland. Currently lecturing in Digital Media at City of Glasgow College.
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