One date for the diary - Radio Teesdale is delighted to be supporting Macmillan Cancer Support’s “Feel Good! World’s Biggest Coffee Morning” on the 25th September. The idea is to get your friends, family or colleagues together to share coffee and cake. And don’t forget to donate. Because every cup counts. Radio Teesdale is planning on hosting coffee morning in the centre of Barnard Castle as we broadcast an extended lunch time programme (11am to 1pm) live from the Barnard Castle Vision Box in Galgate. If you would like to get involved in that event then please let us know. By raising funds Macmillan Cancer Support aim to help improve the lives of those living with cancer.
We have now taken delivery of the outside broadcasting equipment that will enable us to produce programmes in locations across Teesdale. Our studio has been wired up and we are in the process of commissioning the computer equipment and setting up the broadband links. We hope to be broadcasting from the Barnard Castle Vision Box in Galgate in the near future. Watch this space for more information.
The new Summer Season on Radio Teesdale starts tomorrow. Many of the repeat times of our programmes have been changed in response to comments from our members and listeners. We wish Dave “Chippy” Chipchase the best of luck with his new two hour live show on Monday evenings (7pm to 9pm).
Our short introduction to radio presenting course got off to a great start last Wednesday. Due to the nature of the course (working within the studios) there are a limited number of places and the course was oversubscribed. Therefore, we are currently planning a 5 week course that will provisionally run from Wednesdays 16th September to 14th October. Sessions run from 6pm to 8pm each evening. If we have sufficient requests for a course to run a training programme through the daytime we will also run an additional day-time session. We will be covering areas such as radio presenting, operating the studio equipment, recording and editing. No previous experience is necessary. Let us know if you’d like to register for a place.
Sunday, 19 July 2009
Sunday, 5 July 2009
Stormy Weather
We had a difficult period to cover during the storm on Wednesday afternoon/night. If there was every a case for a UPS that was it!! Let’s hope our funding bid is successful. The lightning kept cutting the supply in 10 second bursts from 3pm onwards until about 5.15pm. We had to reboot the computer systems and CDs.....about 10 times. We then lost power entirely between 5.15pm and 6.45pm when there was no supply to Enterprise House. Unfortunately, that took us totally off air. Well done to Martin in Drivetime and particularly Anthony Da Costa who had to suffer all this during a planned 3 hour stint on air with Paperclips and then Drivetime. The building also flooded (but other than our stuff in the attic that's not affected us). We had things running again towards the end of Drivetime. A short power failure in the night, around 1am lost us transmission until I sorted it out again around 7am before our breakfast show.
105.5FM transmitter at the school had a UPS and although the power at the school failed for a period on Thursda the "battery system" worked and kept us on air throughout until it came back on. Thank you Teesdale School for keeping us informed of things happening up there.
Power was out in a fair amount of the upper dale so we lost the 102.1FM Frequency from around 3pm on Wednesday afternoon. CE Electrics/NEDL has been very informative and their spokesperson came on air a couple of times on Thursday to update the listeners.
I returned to the Romaldkirk site on Friday and received very friendly support and help from both NEDL and Arqiva (who had 3 cars and 3 big truck at our transmitter site at one time.....not all needed for us but they just happened to be using them sorting problems in the area!!). Two engineers from Arqiva (the people we rent the space on the tower from) were particularly helpful and got our transmitter back on line. As the senior engineers said, we were in it together and there to help each other out. At around 12 noon Friday we were back on air on 102.1FM.
105.5FM transmitter at the school had a UPS and although the power at the school failed for a period on Thursda the "battery system" worked and kept us on air throughout until it came back on. Thank you Teesdale School for keeping us informed of things happening up there.
Power was out in a fair amount of the upper dale so we lost the 102.1FM Frequency from around 3pm on Wednesday afternoon. CE Electrics/NEDL has been very informative and their spokesperson came on air a couple of times on Thursday to update the listeners.
I returned to the Romaldkirk site on Friday and received very friendly support and help from both NEDL and Arqiva (who had 3 cars and 3 big truck at our transmitter site at one time.....not all needed for us but they just happened to be using them sorting problems in the area!!). Two engineers from Arqiva (the people we rent the space on the tower from) were particularly helpful and got our transmitter back on line. As the senior engineers said, we were in it together and there to help each other out. At around 12 noon Friday we were back on air on 102.1FM.
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