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Funding Roundup (07.09.10)

crt_admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:03:02 +0000

Below are the latest funding and personal development schemes which are currently accepting applications. They are listing in order of deadline and we thank Tamar Millen at the CMA for sending many of them through. If you know of another or would like your scheme to be added to this page, let us know. *NEW* [...]

Languages database goes live

crt_admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:02:01 +0000

A little while ago a discussion took place on the Community Media Association’s email list about the need to check programmes which weren’t in English. A request went out for some sort of facility where you could search for other stations who broadcast programmes in, say, Somali, Punjabi, Mandarin and so on. Some responded to [...]

Breakfast DJ’s sacking makes waves at island radio station

crt_admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:07:22 +0000

The story appears in this week’s Herald Scotland and can be read in its original context by clicking on the Herald logo. It culminated in an on-air bust-up, the sacking of its high-profile breakfast presenter and the resignation of 16 volunteers. The community radio station had been designed to give residents of Bute some home-grown [...]

Invitation to event: Media for all – the democratic challenge, 14 September, Manchester

crt_admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:25:32 +0000

An open event hosted by Making Good Society and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF), supported by the Carnegie UK Trust

Tuesday 14 September 6.00pm – 8.00pm
Mayor’s Parlour, Manchester Town Hall, M2 5DB

Following the publication of Making Good Society, the final report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, this event will discuss the crucial role of news media in empowering peoples’ participation in public debate at a time of cut backs in regional and local media. The event will also explore how civil society organisations can contribute to a more democratic news media.

Speakers: Jeremy Dear (General Secretary NUJ) Jude Gordon (Manchester NUJ) Joyce McMillan (The Scotsman and member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society) and Granville Williams (CPBF).

To book a place at this free event please e-mail makinggoodsociety@carnegieuk.orgby 10 September. Copies of Making Good Society and Protecting the news; Civil Society and the Media, a report by Goldsmiths University commissioned by the Carnegie UK Trust are available at www.futuresforcivilsociety.org.

In breach: The Raj Show, Raaj FM

crt_admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:40:57 +0000

This was announced in today’s Broadcast Bulletin, issue 164 which can be accessed as a PDF document here. Raaj FM, 27 April 2010, 11:00 Introduction Raaj FM provides a community radio service for the Panjabi community in Sandwell, West Midlands. The Raj Show is a music-based programme, which is presented in Punjabi. On this occasion, [...]

Innovative station seeks talented project manager

crt_admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:09:59 +0000

Wythenshawe FM Project Manager Wythenshawe FM is an innovative community radio station that broadcasts specifically to the community of Wythenshawe in South Manchester, an area affected by multiple disadvantage. An exceptional Project Manager is now required to oversee the development and running of this station. The post-holder will have the ability and vision to develop [...]

31 RSLs for Ramadan

crt_admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:12:33 +0000

The following granted licencees are running Ramadan radios across the UK over the next month generally from 8 August 2010 to 12 September 2010. 1 Ummah FM, 87.9 FM – Reading, contact: Omair Zaman, telephone: 0781 662 0725, email: omair_zaman@hotmail.com FMO Radio Ramadhan, 87.7 FM – Leicester, contact: Ashraf Makadam, telephone: 0116 2622 111, email: [...]

Doug Wood joins Moorlands Radio

crt_admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:31:55 +0000

The website Radio Today has reported the following: Signal Radio stalwart Doug Wood will be joining the team at 103.7 Moorlands Radio this week. The popular Signal 2 presenter, who had been at the Stoke-based commercial radio station since it launched in the early 80s, finished his afternoon show on the radio station last week [...]

CR in England – FREE traffic news – sign up now!

jaquid — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:31:36 +0000

Dear all So far 25 stations in England have signed up for the free traffic news service arranged by the CMA for members in England, with GTN supported by the Highways Agency. These have all now received their details and we have a further five in process. You can join this scheme at any time [...]

DEC Pakistan flood appeal media

crt_admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:30:47 +0000

The DEC have launched a joint charity appeal to contribute relief to those effected by the Pakistan floods. The Radiocentre and DEC have made the following audio available for you to play at regular intervals. You can click the download link for the mp3′s and right click the wav files and select ‘save link as’. [...]