Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Independent broadcast networkSly public showroom transmission
SignalHouse
One station. Every frequency that matters. Live voices, moving pictures, serious reporting, and a control room built to carry the whole signal.
Enter the broadcastShowroom signal
Now in the room City After Dark
01 / THE SIGNAL
Broadcasting should feel alive before anybody presses play.
SIGNAL HOUSE is built for a station with more than one voice and more than one screen. Radio, live video, replay, field reports, culture, community, and commercial operations belong to one disciplined network—without flattening them into one feed.
02 / PROGRAM CLOCK
Find your hour.
Know what comes next.
Fictional demonstration schedule. Production dates, rights, hosts, and stream availability must be verified before launch.
Briefing
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
The Long Table
Nia Cross · fictional host
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
The Long Table
Nia Cross · fictional host
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
The Long Table
Nia Cross · fictional host
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
The Long Table
Nia Cross · fictional host
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
Weekend Frequency
Rotating fictional station voices
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
Weekend Frequency
Rotating fictional station voices
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
Motor City Current
Imani Brooks · fictional host
Signal Lunch
Music, city notes, and one long interview
Weekend Frequency
Rotating fictional station voices
City After Dark
Marcus Reed · fictional host
03 / ORIGINAL PROGRAMS
Every show gets
its own world.
All programs City After Dark
A late-night room for Detroit sound, neighborhood voices, live calls, and the stories moving after midnight.
Open City After DarkThe Long Table
Artists, builders, organizers, and sharp minds stay long enough to finish the real conversation.
Open The Long TableMotor City Current
A deliberate morning signal for city movement, work, weather context, and community intelligence.
Open Motor City Current04 / REPLAY VAULT
The live moment leaves.
The record stays.
The block that built its own stage
City After Dark / field conversation · 42:18
Who owns the sound after the show?
The Long Table / rights and legacy · 58:06
Five signals before the city wakes
Motor City Current / morning file · 18:44
A record shop becomes a neighborhood archive
City After Dark / culture file · 36:29
05 / THE VOICES
People, not a playlist.
Each program carries a point of view, an editorial responsibility, and a human rhythm. The fictional profiles below demonstrate the host system.
Nia Cross
A patient interviewer with a reporter’s ear and no appetite for rehearsed answers.
Marcus Reed
A crate digger, neighborhood historian, and late-night conductor of the room.
Imani Brooks
A morning editor who separates what happened, what changed, and what still needs proof.
Darius Cole
A field producer who brings street-level context back to the studio without spectacle.
06 / SIGNAL DESK
Report what changed.
Preserve what mattered.
The dispatch desk carries culture, city movement, station news, and corrected reporting. Drafts, sources, rights, and corrections remain visible work—not invisible assumptions.
The midnight bus route returns for festival weekend
A fictional service brief demonstrating source, time, and correction-aware reporting.
Independent venues build one shared accessibility calendar
A fictional culture desk report about practical audience access.
Three local studios open their archives
A fictional preservation report with no claim about real businesses.
Correction desk: why the first number changed
A demonstration of visible corrections instead of silent rewrites.
07 / CITY FREQUENCY
Take the room
beyond the room.
Field broadcasts, studio audiences, public conversations, archive days, and community moments travel through the same rights, access, safety, and evidence discipline as the signal.
The Midnight Soundwalk
A fictional live field-broadcast demonstration built around place, sound, access, and community context.
Open event briefThe Long Table: Builders Edition
A fictional public-conversation demonstration with a moderated audience and preserved transcript.
Open event briefArchive Day at the House
A fictional community-archive demonstration covering intake, rights, description, and responsible replay.
Open event brief08 / THE WHOLE MACHINE
Beautiful out front.
Serious behind the glass.
Programming, rundowns, clips, requests, sponsor flights, alerts, engineering, evidence, delivery, roles, audits, and connection gates sit behind authenticated WordPress authority. The public can see the station’s capability without receiving the keys.
- 01Program deskShows, hosts, schedule, episodes, transcripts.
- 02Production deskRundowns, clips, approvals, caption and rights state.
- 03Audience deskPrivate requests, moderation, consent, retention, and response state.
- 04Commercial deskSponsor inventory, flight dates, creative and delivery truth.
- 05Evidence deskSources, releases, rights, transcripts, corrections, and proof.
- 06Engineering deskTransport gates, incidents, maintenance, recovery, and audit.
09 / PARTNERSHIP DESK
Buy a real audience moment.
Never a fake number.
Illustrative showroom structure only. No inventory is promised, no audience figure is claimed, and no checkout is connected.
Neighborhood presence
Host-read placement, verified episode credit, and a bounded campaign report.
- Monthly
- Custom quote
- Yearly
- Custom agreement
Own the conversation
Series-aligned inventory, approved creative, disclosure, and delivery evidence.
- Monthly
- Custom quote
- Yearly
- Custom agreement
Across the house
Cross-format sponsorship with explicit frequency, destinations, rights, and reporting.
- Monthly
- Custom quote
- Yearly
- Custom agreement
10 / OPEN LINE
Send the station
something worth hearing.
Music consideration, story leads, guest ideas, community notices, event questions, and sponsorship inquiries enter one bounded protected production review queue. Submission is not an agreement, airplay promise, booking, endorsement, or purchase.
PUBLIC SHOWROOM
The intake desk is demonstrated, not connected.
Listener records, uploads, moderation, mail, and station authority remain protected until a buyer provisions the production system. No information entered here is collected.
Start a project with Sly Art Designs11 / PUBLIC TRUST
The signal earns belief
by keeping receipts.
Strong broadcasting distinguishes what is known, what is sponsored, what changed, who can act, and where the audience can challenge the record.
01Editorial standardsSeparate fact, analysis, opinion, sponsorship, fiction, and uncertainty.↗02AccessibilityDesign the signal for captions, transcripts, keyboards, touch, contrast, zoom, and reduced motion.↗03PrivacyCollect only what the station needs, define retention, and protect the request queue.↗04CorrectionsName what changed, when it changed, and why the public record changed.↗
12 / SLY STATION GUIDE
A powerful station should not require guessing.
The complete guide explains the public network, every protected desk, the evidence chain, and the exact road from private showroom to production.
Welcome to SIGNAL HOUSE00:00
Turn the room on.
Let the whole city hear it breathe.