About
An independent blog about radio and audio
On the Dial is a workshop notebook about how radio is actually made — the signal path, the shape of an hour, the formats, the craft of presenting and the gear at the listening end. It is written for people who are curious how the sausage is made, and for people making audio of their own.
What this is not
It is not a radio station. There is no frequency, no schedule, no stream and nothing to listen to here. It carries no industry news, no ratings, no awards and no personnel moves, because all of that expires within a season and none of it teaches anybody anything about the craft.
Real stations and networks appear here only as neutral examples of a format or a practice — never as the subject, and never with claims about their internal affairs.
Why it has no dates
Everything published here is written to be true in ten years. A clock wheel works the way it worked in 1975. A limiter still has a ceiling. A presenter still talks to one person. Where a piece would need a date to make sense, it is the wrong piece for this site.
The photography
Equipment, studios and objects: desks, capsules, racks, masts, foam, reels. No people appear in any image on the site, by policy.
How it pays for itself
A small number of marked placements, grouped into two blocks on the homepage. Sponsors buy a position and a line of their own copy. They do not buy a mention inside a guide, and they never see one before it goes up.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, it gets fixed and the fix is silent — no correction log, because there are no dates to hang one on. Write in and it will be read.