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Spring 2014 issue 145 The Official Journal of the Hospital Broadcasting Association Hi Everyone, Doesn’t time fly ... it’s Conference time again and this in this issue ... year Bristol promises to have something for everybody. The conference venue is right in the heart of Bristol and just a Board Report .................................................................................................. 2 stone’s throw from one of Bristol’s main shopping areas. Alan’s New Year Honours List .................................................................. 3 You can now pay for conference by credit/debit card for HBA Conference and Awards ......................................................................4 a small payment processing fee. If you'd rather not pay the Meet the Awards Judges .............................................................................. 6 fee, you can still pay by cheque or bank transfer – contact Sean’s Soapbox ................................................................................................ 7 Brenda Massie for more details. Regional Round-Up ........................................................................................ 8 June’s Travels .................................................................................................. 9 There are two new features in this edition: firstly Sean HBS Glasgow’s New Studio ...................................................................... 10 Dunderdale, our Public Relations manager offers some tips Another Can of Worms? ............................................................................ 12 and advice on gaining publicity for your station. And Tarka Radio is Back on the Map .............................................................. 14 secondly, a return to the fold of Mathew Hulbert from Southern Sound Celebrate ........................................................................ 15 Castle Mead Radio who keeps us up-to-date with what he Countrywide News from the Stations .................................................... 16 has been doing. Good to have you back Mathew. Can You Help? .............................................................................................. 20 Enjoy Conference and well done to all those who have Update Your Membership Subscription .................................................. 21 Mathew’s Message ........................................................................................ 22 been shortlisted. Meet the Members ...................................................................................... 23 Michelle Ruby Celebrations for Radio Warneford ................................................ 24 Born in a Box ................................................................................................ 25 Shared Programming .................................................................................... 26 The Vintage Years ........................................................................................ 31 DIARY DATES Regional Team Details ..................................................................................32 28th-30th March 2014 HBA Annual Conference Who To Contact on the Executive Committee ................................IRC Marriott Hotel, Bristol FRONT COVER STORY: 27th-29th March 2015 Conference Pupils from Gaywood Community Primary Marriott Hotel, Gosforth Park, Newcastle. School in Kings Lynn swapped the classroom for the studio as they took over the airwaves on Lynn’s Hospital Radio. A group of 15 children in years five and six went on air at the Our Ambassadors station at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital under the watchful eye of station volunteer Alistair Done. The school already has its own studios and is planning to run programmes for pupils and parents. Alistair said the session had been ‘a great success’ and hopes to hold a further session with the school later in the year. On Air is the Official Journal of the HBA which is the trading name of the National Association of Hospital Broadcasting Organisations, a Company limited by guarantee. Alan Dedicoat Ken Bruce Registered in England No. 2750147. A Registered Charity No. 1015501. Registered office: Avebury House, St Peter Street, Winchester, SO23 8BN On Air is distributed free of charge to all member stations of the Association plus interested parties. All material is ©2014 of HBA and may not be reproduced in any form without the written authority of the Editor. Views expressed in the magazine are not necessarily those of HBA, or the Editor but are the personal opinion of the contributor. Whilst every effort is taken to ensure the accuracy of the publication, all advertisements and articles appear in good faith and HBA and the Editor accept no responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies. Dr Chris Steele, MBE Alex Lester Address for On-Air: The Editor, On Air, 2 Falkland Close, Boreham, Chelmsford, Essex CM3 3DD Tel: 0870 321 6011 Email: [email protected] COPY DATE NEXT ISSUE 31st April, 2014 Board Report Conference News ordinator, even if for only a Our national conference takes relatively small cluster of stations place in Bristol from Friday 28th to in your immediate neighbourhood, Sunday 30th March. By the time please do get in touch with Mel you read this, residential bookings ([email protected]). will have closed. However, you can still join us as a non-residential Members' Newsletter delegate as long as you're quick – Darren Whittenham-Gray is off bookings close on 28th February. to a flying start with the Members' More details can be found on the Electronic Newsletter. It's being website at hbauk.com/conference. distributed to all our main contacts You can now pay by card as well at member stations but any – although, because we keep our volunteer at a member station is charges to an absolute minimum, eligible to subscribe for free. we are passing on the transaction If your HBA contact person is not fee so, if you take up on this forwarding the newsletter to you, option, you'll pay slightly more please ask them to do so – there's than if you use an old-fashioned a ‘subscribe me’ link in each one – cheque or pay electronically via a or signup directly at BACS transfer. http://eepurl.com/DDMdj. The National Hospital Radio by Nigel Dallard, Secretary Awards ceremony will take place Football Dataco during the Saturday evening of organise the 2015 National Mike Sarre recently had a useful conference. The shortlists are on Hospital Radio Awards (although meeting with representatives of the website at hbauk.com/awards. that will, likely, be their last, as Football Dataco, who licence Good luck to all those nominated. they feel that it is time for a coverage of football games to all creative refresh in the hands of a media outlets. Annual General new team). As a result, we hope that the Meeting Hospital Radio licence for football coverage will be rather more The call for nominations for this Regional Changes hospital-radio friendly without, for year's round of Trustee elections Also at the AGM, the Trustees example, huge financial liabilities was issued in early January, with will be proposing the adoption of a on the Trustees if the terms of the the elections taking place at the new set of Regional Bylaws to licence are broken. AGM on Saturday, 29th March (at remove most of the administrative the conference in Bristol). ‘red tape’ around regions, requiring This year it's the turn of the Vice them to hold formal AGMs, etc. Membership Chairman/Deputy Chief Executive We'll also be opening up regional Subscriptions and Regional Manager. Iain Lee has membership, so that regional Membership subscriptions fall announced that he is not intending boundaries become much more due again on 1st April. This year, to to seek re-election, so we are fuzzy than at the moment and encourage early renewal, the especially looking for someone to allow members to join as many Trustees have agreed that stations take on the Vice Chair/Deputy regions as they like – so volunteers which renew before 1st April will be Chief Exec role. If you are who are willing and able to travel able to do so for the reduced fee of interested, or know someone who longer distances can be kept £40. might be, please feel free to informed of activities in Renewals after 1st April will cost contact Iain or any of the other neighbouring regions (or even the same as last year – £45. Trustees for more information regions in another part of the Associate Members' fees remain prior to completing the nomination country!). at £15 (with no discount for early form, which is available on the The current and proposed renewal). AGM page of our website Regional Bylaws are available now (hbauk.com/agm) alongside the on the AGM webpage. formal role description and other Starting in areas of the country AGM paperwork. without active Regional Reps, our COPY DATE Please note that Iain's role recently-appointed Regional ISSUE146 organising the National Hospital Manager, Mel Ive, is also going to Radio Awards is separate to his try to find reps or co-ordinators for 30th APRIL 2014 current Trustee position and Iain smaller geographic areas. If you're has stated that he and Sean will interested in acting as a rep or co- ON AIR <http://www.hbauk.com> Page 2 Spring 2014 Alan’s New Year Honours List HBA Patron Alan Dedicoat kicked off 2014 in style, revealing the nominations for this year's National Hospital Radio Awards. Alan, better known as the Voice of the Lottery Balls, is Radio 2's Head of Presentation and he kindly pre-recorded a