Our studios are located in Chesterfield, a market town on the edge of the Peak District National Park in central England.
Like most stations, we use a combination of audio mixers and software editors to compile and edit the music and spots, with the final mix then streamed through a broadcast processor to our servers in Moscow. These two pictures show how our studios look now.
No transmitters these days, but here's the impressively swish set-up at our Moscow data centre which houses all our broadcasting software.
Until a few years ago, we also had a dedicated live recording studio, equipped by our chum and long-time collaborator, Guy Morris. Sadly, the fiasco of covid brainwashing put paid to that, but we'd like to think it could be revived in the future...
In common with most other media operations, our equipment has changed over the years from racks of bulky hardware to a largely computer-based set-up. This is how it all looked when 2XS was launched from The Workstation in Sheffield in 2002...
This is a photo of the mid-80s studios of our predecessor, the mountain-top Swiss/Italian 'border-blaster' station, LBC Music Radio 95.7. Not a computer in sight...
Here's another shot of LBC Music Radio 95.7. This was the second studio which housed the newsroom, record library, and transmitter controls. Our popular Italian newsreader was Manuela del Zoppo.
The final image is of the LBC Music Radio 95.7 antenna array - in the days when we did have transmitters! It was all erected on an Italian mountainside overlooking the Swiss city of Lugano within 24 hours by our colleagues in Milan.
