// THE RECORD · EVERY SHIPPED CHANGE
Academy changelog.
What shipped, when, verified live. LIVE means live.
2026-09-28 — 15
ACADEMY CAUGHT UP TO THE SEPTEMBER PLANT. SHIPPED: the full Sales Playbook (Level 2 now keeps its promise) · Broadcast Kits v1 (six printable kits) · all seven tracks in the top menu on every page (Sales, DJ, Operations, Scenester, Community, Artist, Show Creators, CPT Prep) · Japanese handbook is now the full v3 translation · Editor’s Desk manual downloadable behind the operator login · Handbook v4 and the HQ manual September edition (addendum bound in) · HQ completion report at /admin/completions/ with CSV · completion codes now post themselves to the station’s Communications on pass.
2026-09-16 — 14
LIVE-TO-AIR SHIPPED + LIBRARY CLEANUP- SHIPPEDLive-to-air from the mixer — FIXEDthe GO LIVE path now holds. The old feed starved the station’s live buffer on any hiccup and dropped in seconds; the new rail paces a continuous 192k stream and pads gaps with silence, so a dropout never knocks you off air. Verified: full session, straight through a deliberate 6-second dropout, clean return to automation.
- SHIPPEDNetwork-approved shared poolHQ can flag station IDs, imaging, intros, lead-ins and commercials as NETWORK APPROVED (the NET button in the media library) — approved items appear in every creator’s library, mixer pads and Edit Suite insert menu. Creators cannot self-approve.
- SHIPPEDThe great re-bin183-item “Production” dumping ground cleared: songs to Music, effects to Special Effects, imaging to Imaging. Intros and Lead-Ins chips finally count correctly (they were missing from the category list since day one).
- SHIPPEDYour IDs are YOUR IDsan affiliate now sees only network IDs and their own station’s IDs — never another market’s.
- SHIPPEDShow-first browsingon the Programs shelf, pick the show from the new Show… menu to see just its episodes — and the name auto-fills Program-a-Show for one-shot playlist scheduling.
- SHIPPEDScene LIVE watchdogif a video stream dies without signing off, the station page no longer shows a dead black LIVE box — a watchdog flips it offline within minutes.
2026-09-16 — 13
STUDIO PRODUCTION SUITE + IMAGE-LAW RELEASE- SHIPPEDVirtual mixing boardAudio Studio → Mixer: mic + two library decks + four sound pads + master record, all Web Audio in the browser. Proper broadcast buses — mic never feeds your own speakers, master records straight into the Broadcast Media Library. On HQ and creator, one build.
- SHIPPEDGuest call-in (Phase A)one-tap browser guest link from the mixer — guest joins from any browser, no account, hears your mix-minus (never themselves). Runs on our own STUN + a U-Rock® TURN relay on CORE. Zero vendor, zero per-minute cost. Phase B (real phone number) parked by owner.
- SHIPPEDEdit Suitecut a recorded show on a waveform, drop the dead air, drop commercial breaks and stings in between segments, render a broadcast-ready MP3 back into the library — the server cuts the original full-quality file, not the preview.
- SHIPPEDLive broadcast auto-archivea recorder service on CORE watches the AzuraCast live flag; when a live show airs it captures the whole session untouched, ships it to the show’s MEDIA shelf and files it in the library, ready for the Edit Suite. First station on watch: AMEL-DB / Transmissions from the Underground.
- SHIPPEDTop-down library scopea creator now sees ONLY the shows they created or that HQ assigned to them — in the library, the mixer pads and the Edit Suite. No more network catalog bleeding into a creator’s pads. Editing is gated to the owner of the show. HQ still sees everything and pushes items down.
- SHIPPEDPress photo & logo uploadsartist-portal press photo / logo limit raised from 5MB to 20MB — full-size covers upload without the “something went wrong” bounce.
- SHIPPEDImage law & the two magazinesno article publishes without a photo — supplied images win, the CC finder is the fallback, and it now runs on the auto path too. urock.today carries the general/affiliate magazine (music); urockradio.today carries the industry trade. 196 photo-backed stories cleared the backlog.
- CHANGED2026-10-26 — Image lawan image is optional, and text-only stories may publish. Any image used must come from the U-Rock® Media Library with established provenance and rights. The CC/Openverse finder is not an image source. Find Image opens the existing cleared-image picker.
- PENDINGLive-to-air from the mixerthe “GO LIVE” path is built and streams to the station harbor, but flipping the station to LIVE needs BROADCAST-server access to finish — owner action outstanding. Until then the mixer records and the auto-archive covers the air.
2026-09-10 — 12
SALES DESK GOES TERRITORIAL- SHIPPEDWings model on every affiliate deskone origin, four wings per city — Wilmington, Kennett, Allentown, Ocean City MD, Atlantic City — with town-order walks, shared-edge handoff law and seed doors. Sign in as the city, see the city.
- SHIPPEDRep paperwork + payout self-serviceW-9 upload, IC e-sign, 1099 tracker, and one-time PayPal payout onboarding at first sign-in. HQ team page shows the full dossier per seat.
- SHIPPEDRate-card unity everywhereportal Ad Studio sells only that station’s packages; radius options unified 1–75 mi and anchored to the ad’s town (server was silently coercing to 25 — fixed at the root); store pay links price from the live release catalog with real FX.
- SHIPPEDFunnel at chamber scale1,005 public-directory prospects imported (GCCC, Cecil, DSBC) plus corridor Wave-1; [LEAD][CALLSIGN] email intake routes to the named station; printable per-track leave-behinds with Aug ’26 PPM shares.
- SHIPPEDRock gate on the content wirecommunity/church items auto-quarantine off rock-station inboxes every 30 minutes — rock desks carry rock. Community tenants keep their community wire.
2026-09-09
EDITOR'S DESK CAUGHT UP TO THE LIVE CHAIR- SHIPPEDThe door and the tabs, statededitor.urock.network is the only editor door (chief_editor seat). Tabs named: Newsroom, Wire, Zines, Feed, Images, Signals, Lineup, Network. Credentials live in the operators manual on CORE — never on Academy. GUIDE: The Editor's Desk.
- SHIPPEDPlacement law enforcedlocal first; a “Latest national stories” block may only show scope=network + distribution_level=network. A Wilmington row never appears on Phoenix. Commercial stays in Sales.
- SHIPPEDMusic Submit copy lawpublic story only when an artist is SELECTED — never when they applied. Fetch audio files onto the canonical submit record; the affiliate is not the download mule.
- SHIPPEDVideo on station pagesa YouTube/Vimeo URL on the story (source_url) plus a thumb is the publisher job — the destination renders the player. No second video CMS.
- SHIPPEDDesk truths restatedREADY packets are drafts — approval is not publication. An empty Lineup is not an invitation to invent a show (Chicago Underground is not a program). No-dead-links and gather-once unchanged.
2026-09-01
CANON + THE PROGRAMMING PORTAL- SHIPPEDThe canonical artist recordone artist record per act, fanning out to discovery, affiliates, trade and artist pages. Discovery acceptance now creates-or-links the canonical profile carrying locality and source. One database, one artist, many destinations.
- SHIPPEDDestination Matrix + Operating Tenet installedowner-issued routing law: classify before placing, local first, network by intent, internal commerce in UROCK. Stories now carry editorial state, distribution level and rights status.
- SHIPPEDAsset packages fan outone gathered packet becomes DRAFT stories for Music Discovery, the local affiliate and the trade paper in one click from the Editor's Desk. Gather once, use many times. Drafts only — editors review, HQ publishes. GUIDE: The Editor's Desk.
- SHIPPEDMoney routes lockedfour marketplace/licensing purchase endpoints now require a signed-in seat spending its OWN station wallet. The insufficient-UROCK gate was live-fired and holds: bad order cancelled, no balance touched.
- SHIPPEDScheduler tells the truthonly ACTIVE shows are carriable or schedulable — drafts, retired shows and test entries no longer leak into any station's scheduler. Activate a show and it reappears everywhere on its own.
- SHIPPEDprogram.urock.network — the programming portalfifth console tenant. The head-of-programming seat sees ALL programming network-wide — shows, grids, playlists, uploads, every station — and nothing else. No finance, no sales, no editorial publish. Hostname is law.
- SHIPPEDEditor's Desk quality-of-lifearchived stories leave the main mix, zines collapse under one heading per station with a view-latest link, and the article editor gains a live image preview, direct upload and one-click auto-tagging.
- SHIPPEDNo dead links in publicurock.today's Accepted to the Network row scrolls one line with arrows, and a band card only links when a published story exists. The desk's ROTATION COVERAGE GAPS panel names every accepted artist still missing a story or press photo.
- SHIPPEDMagica ops seatagent service seat live under the governance tenet — verification and fixes run end-to-end without touching the owner's login.
2026-08-30
THE GRID RUNS THE AIR- SHIPPEDProgram Schedule now drives the broadcast enginegrid slots auto-sync to every station's transmitter every 15 minutes, enforced in each station's local clock (DST-safe). The grid stopped being decorative. GUIDE 005: Program Schedule.
- SHIPPEDNo double-bookingoverlapping show placements are rejected at the system level — including overnight shows crossing midnight. One hour, one show, every station.
- SHIPPEDDead-air protectionan empty playlist is never scheduled; the hour falls back to rotation and the refusal is logged. Silence is never the default.
- SHIPPEDDatabase watchdog + nightly backup raila live-read canary checks the network database every 5 minutes and self-heals; full dated backups run nightly with 14-day retention. Shipped the same night a database glitch briefly blanked all dashboards — zero data loss, recovery verified.
- LIVENetwork-required windows: parkedHQ's carry-everywhere program locks exist and are switched OFF network-wide until HQ arms them with real hours.
2026-08-24 — 28
CONTAINMENT + STATION PAGES- SHIPPEDChurch tenant containmenttoken and wallet features removed from church consoles; church inbox carries HQ↔church and the station's own mail only. Rentals remain the church revenue lane.
- SHIPPEDJapan desk mailboxnoto@urock.network live and wired into dashboard Comms; affiliate Mail Desk routing proven across 25 station mailboxes.
- SHIPPEDStation page ad rotation + bad-bot shieldplacemat inventory rotates on public station pages; automated scraper/attack traffic filtered on every public site.
- SHIPPEDContent wire parser hardenedwire packets accepted with or without code fencing; sender specification published for the packet step.
2026-08-17 — 23
SALES DISCIPLINE- SHIPPEDStation desk sells its own rate card onlycommunity, network and unassigned packages route to the HQ desk. Local desks sell local. Doctrine, now enforced.
- SHIPPEDFlagship revenue window patternfirst proof: 10-to-Noon Live from Linwood — a named, sellable local window on the grid.
- SHIPPEDiOS play retry on public station pagesthe listen button now recovers on iPhone instead of dying silently.
2026-08-15 — 16
SEVEN TRACKS + CERTIFICATION- SHIPPEDAffiliate Training — the station operating course10 modules + launch assessment: sign-in and Acting-as, roles, launch rail, daily loop, programming, music rights law, logs, community, revenue, emergencies.
- SHIPPEDDJ Academy10 modules + certification aircheck: show building, clocks, prep, mic technique, breaks, voice tracking, live, interviews, audience, ethics.
- SHIPPEDArtist Academy (public)10 modules + readiness assessment: profile, metadata, ISRC/ISWC/PROs, master ownership, EPK, submitting, rotation, coverage, local-to-national, momentum.
- SHIPPEDOperations Academy11 modules + certification lab: the system map, tenancy, automation, streams, studios, audio, live connections, logging, failover, troubleshooting, incidents.
- SHIPPEDSales Academy11 modules + certification role-play: the offer, prospects, discovery, the pitch, packages, objections, drills, closing, onboarding, renewals.
- SHIPPEDScenester Academy10 modules + portfolio assessment: the beat, stories, photography, interviews, writing, field audio/video, releases, ethics, filing, national lift.
- SHIPPEDCommunity Academy11 modules + partnership project: the map, calendar, organizations, schools, fire companies, chambers, events, remotes, public service, sponsorships, impact.
- SHIPPEDCertification standards (public)six tracks, one procedure: modules, assessment, practical, signed acknowledgment, badge, 24-month refresher, suspension and reinstatement.
- SHIPPEDFull NEXT curricula locked on the roadmapevery future track's module list published honestly before it ships; John's Desk remains NEXT pending the videos.
- SHIPPEDAcademy favicon + one canonical nav + no-stale-pagestype-only tab mark on all pages; one 16-link menu everywhere; HTML now revalidates on every load; printable cards sized for the page and full-size for print.
2026-08-14 — Evening
COMPLIANCE- SHIPPEDCompliance Track — ten mandatory modulesthe legal spine: relationship, disclosure, 70/30, brand, music rights, privacy, advertising, people, premises, reporting. Acknowledgment recorded, annual refresh.
- SHIPPEDArtist Rights guidepublic plain-language guide for unsigned acts: keep your masters, nonexclusive only, never pay for airplay.
2026-08-14
NINE RELEASES- SHIPPEDLevel 2 — The Sales Seat5 modules + assessment; certification auto-activates the station sales seat.
- SHIPPEDLevel 3 — Affiliate Branding & Station Identity6 modules: the -dB identifier rule, two identity models, locked vs customizable, the Brand Pack, sponsor separation, the approval loop. Certification required before launch.
- SHIPPEDCertification with consequenceLevel 1 completion unlocks the dashboard go-live rail; Level 2 activates the sales seat. Training is now wired into operations.
- SHIPPEDRole-based manualseach sign-in sees only the manuals for their role; HQ material is HQ-only, enforced at the server.
- SHIPPEDAcademy inside the dashboardfull academy embedded in the station console — one login, no separate window.
- SHIPPEDStudio Ladder field guidefour entry paths from presenter desk to community studio, full equipment lists, the 10-step onboarding loop.
- SHIPPEDSign-in copy correctedoperators sign in at affiliate.urock.network; single-station language across Start Here, Level 1 and the Go-Live guide.
- SHIPPEDLevels 1-3 access-gatedcourse pages now require your network login, same credentials as the dashboard.
- SHIPPEDHeader cleanupinterim logo removed network-wide pending the official Academy mark.
2026-07-28
FIVE RELEASES- SHIPPEDACADEMY 005 — Level 1 course6 modules + 10-question knowledge check + operator acknowledgment. Academy Core v1.0.
- SHIPPEDUI v2readability rebuild: larger type, sticky nav, live FIND filter on every page, back-to-top.
- SHIPPEDGlobal Edition hub + doctrinemaster-edition model, honest 16-language board, Japanese edition started.
- SHIPPEDMedia Center + Show Blocks guide + Japanese handbook13 working assets; GUIDE 004; manuals library grows to 9 documents.
- SHIPPEDAirplay + Sales Desk guides, Ops ChaptersGUIDE 002 and 003; documentation volumes on the shelf.
2026-07-28 — Phase 1
FOUNDATION- SHIPPEDacademy.urock.network launchedStart Here orientation, 7 manuals, Go-Live guide, HTTPS, transmission-manual design.
Fixes are releases too: this build corrected a Start Here paragraph that had navigation
links injected mid-sentence, and replaced hand-typed manual counts with an automatic count.