A great two years

What a week it has been at Radio Teesdale. The office has been buzzing with excitement. We are now into our 3rd year of full time broadcasting. The 27th March 2007 was the day we began transmitting from Barnard Castle on our full time license. Well done to the hundreds of people that have contributed to the station over the years. It has been as ever with members dropping in to record programmes, carrying out research and conducting interviews. There have also been a couple of events that have caused a fair bit of excitement.

This week saw the publication of the interview Adrian Braddy, the editor of the Teesdale Mercury, did with Deborah Jenkins of the Barnard Castle Vision. As Adrian said in his regular spot on Tuesday Drivetime it’s not common for a local newspaper to work so closely with the local Radio Station. Deborah and Adrian met up at the Radio Teesdale’s studios to do the interview. We recorded all two hours of it. The practicalities of us working together helped the process enormously. We provided Adrian with a CD of the interview, the Teesdale Mercury transcribed it and the transcript was enormously helpful to us as we produced our 58 minute edit. We’ve always said the people of Teesdale are able to read the Teesdale Mercury while they listen to Radio Teesdale. This is a prime example of that happening. We look forward to future similar cooperative productions. The full programme is now available on the Listen Again section of our web site.

Last Wednesday night was a wonderful evening for Teesdale……in Newcastle. Radio Teesdale won the “best not-for-profit web site” award within the Digital Users section and the Barnard Castle Vision won “best use of mobile phone technology” for “The Box”, within the Digital Innovators section. Congratulations to the Vision team and to the many people who have contributed to the Radio Teesdale web site. A full audio report, with interviews with five people who attended the ceremony, is on the Listen Again section of the web site.