Great Western Productions has built XEOJ Radio, a native iPhone application that carries the XEOJ live broadcast alongside every property the company is currently building.
The app exists to solve a problem of the company’s own making. GWP now runs a radio station, a wrestling worldbook, a handheld computer project, a record label, and a newsroom, each on its own domain, each with its own audience. XEOJ Radio is the single front door: one place to hear the station and read everything else without keeping five bookmarks.
Playback is the center of it. The Mothership screen is a hand-drawn console with a brass volume knob, a level meter driven by the audio, and an ON AIR lamp reporting the transmitter state. Audio continues when the phone is locked or the listener moves to another app, and playback controls appear on the lock screen and in Control Center. A mini player rides above the tab bar on every other screen, so the broadcast follows a reader through the rest of the app.
Four reading surfaces sit around the stream. The News tab carries GWP Dispatch. The GWA tab pulls entries from the GWA Worldbook. The KN-86 tab collects field reports from the Deckline hardware project. The Rotation tab lists tracks from the station’s catalog, each with a short note on what the song is about, and each album linking out to the record on Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music through Rodeo Reverb Records.
There is no sign-up and no account. The app collects no personal data, runs no analytics, and shows no advertising. It streams the radio and does nothing else with the device.
Original GWA and KN-86 content is coming to the app in the months ahead, written for the tabs rather than syndicated into them.
XEOJ Radio is submitted to the App Store and arrives on iPhone shortly. An Android release is in progress.
About Great Western Productions Great Western Productions is an independent creative and technical operation building e-commerce automation systems, internet radio infrastructure, and transmedia fiction universes. Properties include greatwesternproductions.com, the GWA Worldbook, XEOJ-AM Today, Rodeo Reverb Records, and the KN-86 Deckline.