Industry Music & Entertainment Website www.nts.live Founded April 2011 | Founder Femi Adeyemi | |
Key people Femi Adeyemi (CEO)Sean McAuliffe (MD) Profiles | ||
NTS (also known as NTS Radio or NTS Live) is an online radio station and media platform based in Dalston, London. Founded in April 2011 by Femi Adeyemi (one of the original members of Boiler Room) and with the help of Clair Urbahn, NTS Radio serves the online community with a diverse range of live radio shows, digital media and live music based events. Its tag line 'Don't Assume' sums up its diversity and radical programming.
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Origins
NTS Radio was founded by Femi Adeyemi due to his frustration with commercial radio. He sought to create a radio station for a global audience that were bored with major label controlled commercial radio and which simply wanted to hear interesting and diverse music 24 hours a day, with no on-air advertising.
With next to zero funding and the help of his friends including Clair Urbahn, Shane Connolly and Mamiko Motto, basic equipment and a shack in Dalston were sourced to start broadcasting. The programming initially started with 12 hours 7 days a week of live shows hosted by London-based DJs, curated by the small unpaid NTS team.
Platform & Technology
The online streaming NTS delivers is found by users on the NTS website, DAB Radio and various mobile streaming applications such as TuneIn. The main software used to broadcast the live audio stream is the open source software Icecast, for schedule playback of non-live content the station uses Airtime from Sourcefabric. NTS has configured Icecast in a way that enables it to broadcast from remote locations, such that they can be broadcasting from their main studio in Dalston, then switch to a broadcast live from anywhere else in the world (subject to a reliable internet connection at the location).
The current website was designed by Shane Connolly.
Hosts & Artists
All hosts and artists that appear on NTS are selected by the NTS team; Fergus McDonald (Head of Programming), Sean McAuliffe (Managing Director) and Femi Adeyemi (CEO).
There are over 200 regular Hosts. Hosts and guest Artists that appear regularly and have appeared live on NTS include the following:
Thurston Moore, Jeff Mills, Floating Points, Andrew Weatherall, Gilles Peterson, Gaslamp Killer, Sun Araw, Micachu, Four Tet, Jah Wobble, Frankie Knuckles, Rough Trade Records, Theo Parrish, Wire Magazine, Mr. Scruff, DJ Slimzee, Skepta, Young Turks, Peaking Lights, Damo Suzuki, Charles Cohen, Peanut Butter Wolf, Derrick May, Kerri Chandler, Henry Rollins, Actress, Benji B, Mos Def, Gylve Fenris Nagell
In recent years, the station has also started doing live broadcasts from festivals and events around the world. In November 2014, the station was a broadcast partner for Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo. Festival coverage includes broadcasts from Berlin Atonal and Dimensions Festival.
Awards
NTS won the 2014 Best Online Radio Station in the World Award from Mixcloud and the official International Radio Awards Festival.