The Station Compliance Standard
A shared baseline for how partner stations report, log, and preserve their broadcasts — written plainly, enforced consistently.
Every station on the GlueArrow network operates under a common compliance standard. This document is not buried in a terms page. It is the standard, stated in plain language.
What stations commit to
- Every paid broadcast is logged at the source — no backfilling, no reconstruction.
- Airplay data is preserved for a minimum of twenty-four months.
- Rights holders have the right to see what was played and when — without asking for permission.
- Advertisers have the right to see when their spot ran — down to the second.
- No broadcast record is altered after the fact, for any reason.
What the platform commits to
- No station is asked to hand over data it does not already hold.
- No record is published externally without the station's knowledge.
- No data is sold to parties outside the chain of custody for that broadcast.
- Disputes are resolved against the signed log — not against a spreadsheet, and not against anyone's memory.
Why the standard is public
A compliance standard that sits behind a contract protects only the parties to that contract. A standard that is published protects the listeners, the artists, and the advertisers who never signed anything. The GlueArrow standard sits in public because the people it protects are in public.
Stations that cannot meet this standard do not join the network. Stations that leave the network do not take the archive with them. The standard is the condition of being on air with us — not a feature.