September 7th, 2010
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.
1 Comment | In: News, resources | tags: asda foundation, awards, Awards for Bridging Cultures, co-operative membership fund, development, european funds, eyf, Funding, grants, joseph rowntree, philip lawrence awards, Woodward Charitable Trust. | #
September 6th, 2010
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 [...]
No Comments | In: News | tags: Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, checking, Creole, Czech, database, eclectic productions, Farsi, French, Gaelic, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, husain fazel, Italian, Japanese, Kashmiri, languages, Mandarin, partnerships, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, programmes, Punjabi, Russian, Saraiki, Sinhala, Somali, Spanish, Sylheti, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Welsh. | #
September 6th, 2010
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 [...]
No Comments | In: News | tags: bute fm, disagreements, have your say, herald scotland, management, scotland, volunteers. | #
September 6th, 2010
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.
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August 23rd, 2010
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, [...]
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August 16th, 2010
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: [...]
1 Comment | In: News | tags: crescent moon, eid, month, ramadan, ramadan radio, RSL. | #
August 16th, 2010
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 [...]
No Comments | In: News | tags: doug wood, moorlands radio, presenter, signal 2, staffordshire, stoke, tony mullins. | #
August 6th, 2010
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’. [...]
2 Comments | In: News | tags: audio, banners, dec, dec appeal, floods, images, mp3, pakistan, wav. | #
August 2nd, 2010
Congratulations to 103 The Eye! Community radio station 103 The Eye has won another regional award for its work. The station, which covers Melton and the Vale of Belvoir, was judged winner of the ‘contribution to the community’ category in the Federation of Small Businesses Awards 2010 for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland. Awards were presented [...]
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August 2nd, 2010
Ofcom reported today (2 August 2010) a breach made by Lincoln City Radio. Below is the judgemet as published in Issue 163 of the Broadcast Bulletin. In Breach Lincoln City Radio 31 May 2010 Introduction Lincoln City Radio is a community radio station which began broadcasting on 4 May 2010. Ofcom received a complaint alleging [...]
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