Sometimes the problem can turn into the solution. Just ask Ibby Carothers. Ibby and her husband, Dave Williams, are the team behind iCRV radio, the Internet station that began broadcasting on May 15 last year.

They launched in a studio on Main Street in Chester, but this January, they encountered a problem: a major repair project on Main Street right in front of their office. The construction noise would have interfered with the clarity of iCRV’s broadcasts.

So the station had to move. As Carothers and her husband pondered the problem, they heard about a building in Ivoryton, affording both a larger studio and a waiting room.

“This came at a great time and allows us to do new things like having a studio audience,” Carothers says “People can come to the studio and listen in.”

And there was a historic appropriateness to their new location. It had in the past been the location of Ivoryton Post Office.

“It was once a hub of communication and now it is a wonderful celebration of new media,” Carothers notes.

In some cases the station itself can travel by way of what Carothers calls the tiny house, a solar-powered log cabin on a trailer, with a fully equipped studio, Internet connectivity, even bedroom, bathroom and front porch.

The area iCRV covers is a triangle, from the Portland/Cromwell area at the top, then along the bottom from Branford and Guilford over to New London. Carothers notes that the station also has a strong following in Hartford and Middletown and that 20 percent of the station’s listeners are in Boston and New York.

But since the station comes through the Internet, listeners can hear it wherever they can get a Wi-Fi connection (iCRV’s smartphone app enables even more portability). Audiences for individual programs can range from as little as 10 to 20 to several hundred, with the average listener tuning in for 25 minutes at a time. On a monthly basis, approximately 20,000 listeners listen to iCRV, according to Carothers. The station is on 24 hours a day, which also includes some repeat programming.

“We can control things electronically and remotely so we do get to sleep at night,” Carothers explains.

Although they now have interns who help with broadcasts, running a two-person radio station means responsibilities in many directions.

“No two days are exactly alike,” Carothers says. “We figure out creative ways to multitask. Dave and I don’t have kids; this is our baby.”

Programming at iCRV runs an eclectic gamut from advice on childcare and gardening to tips on home brewing. Regular offerings, among many others, include “Beyond the Frame: An Insider’s Guide to the Florence Griswold Museum” on Tuesdays at 10 a.m.; “Connecticut River Drift” with Old Lyme’s Wick Griswold on the last Thursday of the month; “Nature With Ranger Russ” from Meigs Point Nature Center at Hammonasset State Park in Madison on Mondays at 9 a.m.; “Atlantic Seafood Tip Line,” which bites into the subject of what fish are fresh and how to cook them, while “Cheese Bits” features Paul Partica of the Cheese Shop of Centerbrook talking about popular cheeses. “Silent Achievers” features students from local high schools on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. talking about the accomplishments of their school and their peers.

One area iCRV does not cover is local politics. “Other people are doing that,” Carothers says. “We enjoy hearing about people’s interests, their passions.”

Carothers is particularly proud of the station’s live music programs from “Talking Jazz with Ken,” featuring Ken Kitchings of the Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, to iCRV’s new partnership with Chester’s Dirt Floor Studios to showcase independent artists in this area. On Tuesdays at 3 p.m., “Ramblin’” Dan Stevens hosts his “MusicNow Showcase,” featuring next-generation artists and their mentors.

“Music is a big part of the programming; there’s a great musical vibe in this area,” Ibby says. “We’ve tapped into a market of younger people.”

This fall iCRV will once again sponsor a music festival, the iCRV Music Festival, on Saturday, Oct. 1, at Sweetwater Farm in Clinton.

The radio station grew from Ibby and Dave’s curiosity about this area when they moved here three years ago. They kept hearing about things that had already happened; what they wanted was a way to let people know what was going on before it had occurred. “We thought there was a need we could fulfill — an interactive, real-time, full-time station,” she says. Listeners can call in or contact the station at iCRVradio.com or through Facebook and Twitter.

Carothers is new to radio but hardly new to the communications business. She was a television journalist for some 30 years, much of it as a weather reporter. She hadn’t planned on doing weather, but she was put in the slot in her first job in San Diego, and she continued as a weather anchor moving to Minneapolis and then to New York and Connecticut. Along the way she became not only experienced but also weather-wise, earning a certificate in meteorology.

Her given name is Elizabeth but growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, she was always called Ibby. In fact, she has been called Ibby all her life except for a time at WCBS in New York when the producer insisted that she be called Liz. She reverted to her familiar first name because the change confused viewers. They had already seen her as Ibby when she was a weather reporter on two other New York stations, WNBC and WWOR.

Not all her reporting, however, was weather related. In 2002, when she was at WTNH, Carothers won two Boston/New England Emmy Awards as producer and reporter for a series entitled, “Connecticut Day Trips” about fun, family-friendly, outdoor destinations in Connecticut.

Carothers does not miss her days as a weather reporter, particularly getting up at 2 a.m. to be ready for an early morning telecast. The weather reporting she does nowadays is an optimistic prediction for the new radio station.

“The forecast for iCRV is bright,” she says. “I look forward to each minute of every day.”

FIND THE STATION

On the Internet: iCRVradio.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/icrvradio

Twitter: @iCRVradio

Telephone: (860) 526-4278 (ICRV)

Address: 108 Main St., Ivoryton