KOZT FM The Coast
KOZT (The Coast FM) is the top radio station in Mendocino County, CA. In addition to their musical activities, The Coast serves as an information hub for area events and concerts in Northern California. They really shine when the power goes out — their contacts with the power company and law enforcement enable them to provide timely updates during bad weather emergencies. One of their primary requirements was to be able to quickly add and remove events highlighted on the home page. To provide background info for the on-air staff, they maintain an extensive database (over 13,000 entries) of music, entertainment, and historical events. They invite people to share their stories about life in Mendocino County, and provide an audio library of stories. They also sell promotional items in their store, mostly logo merchandise along with some locally-produced music CDs.
The Coast also streams their broadcast on the Web, and you can play the current stream while visiting the site. The site is fully responsive, and you can play the audio feed on both desktop and mobile devices. KOZT.com has quite a bit of custom code: it’s a custom theme, and a number of additional modules were built in PHP along with Javascript on the front-end.
