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The Official Journal of the Hi Everyone, Hospital Broadcasting Association You will receive this issue of On Air just before Conference and our very own Oscar ceremony ... the 2007 National Hospital Radio Awards. In this issue we reveal the top ten nominations in each of the in this issue ... categories. But you’ll have to wait until the night of Awards to discover who will be displaying the trophies on their mantlepieces. In the centre pages you can read all about the judges – all 35 of Committee Report ...... 3 them – and the journey they have gone on to achieve their present job. All Our Yesterdays ...... 7 Enjoy the Awards – and our sincere thanks to all those who have worked so hard behind the scenes – and may the best man (or Birch Radio Relocate, Part 2 ...... 8 woman) win! Night Out at Swap Shop ...... 10 We have vacancies on the Executive Committee – do you think Launch of Virtual Visiting ...... 11 you may be able to help? Turn to page 28 to see what the jobs entail National Hospital Radio Awards, the Top Ten ...... 12 and think long and hard whether it is something you may be able to undertake. National Hospital Radio Awards, Meet the Judges ...... 13 In the next issue, we will include all the Awards winners. Hospital Broadcasting in the UK ...... 18 Michelle Happy New Chinese Year ...... 21 Countrywide ... News from the Stations ...... 22 DIARY DATES The HBA Grants Programme ...... 23 30th-1st April 2007 The Park Inn HBA Grant Application Form ...... 24 Spring Conference, Northampton The HBA Conference Bursary ...... 25 29th March-6th April 2007 Bursary Application Form ...... 26 Hospital Broadcasting Week 19th-21st October, 2007 Regional Rep Details ...... 27 Hilton Hotel, Newport Who To Contact ...... 28 Autumn Conference 14th-15th November, 2007 NEC Birmingham SBES FRONT COVER STORY: 28th-30th March 2008 Winchester Hospital Radio Spring Conference & Awards celebrated the Chinese New Year in Queens Hotel, Leeds style when the volunteers wore 10th-12th October 2008 traditional Chinese dress for the Autumn Conference & AGM ward based programme and gave Solihull out fortune cookies to the patients. 27th-29th March 2009 Spring Conference & Awards See page 21 for full story Hilton Hotel, Blackpool 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. Registered in England No. 2750147. A Registered Charity No. 1015501. Registered office: Mariners House, 24 Nelsons Gardens, Hedge End, Southampton, SO30 2NE. On Air is distributed free of charge to all member stations of the Association plus interested parties. All material is ©2006 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.
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National Hospital Radio HBA Enterprises Ltd Awards The directors of HBA Enterprises You will hopefully be reading this Ltd finally filed the accounts for the ahead of the Spring Conference and year ended 30 April 2005 with Awards ceremony. Congratulations and Companies House in December – only good luck to all those stations and eight months after the deadline! They individuals that have been short-listed show ‘shareholders' funds’ of £15,135. and commiserations to those who were According to the company's unsuccessful this year. The winning Memorandum of Association, all such entries will, as usual be made available funds should be transferred to HBA in on our website and I hope we can find a tax-efficient manner. I have, therefore, the funds to distribute them on CD written to the directors reminding them once again. of their legal obligation and asking them We stage the awards (according to to transfer the money without further our charitable objects) ‘to promote the delay. highest technical and artistic standards’ Ofcom Review of RSLs in hospital broadcasting. Please do take In January, Ofcom announced the the time to listen to and learn from the outcome of their review of Radio RSLs winners. and the use of the 55-68MHz frequency band. I am pleased to be HBA Announce by Nigel Dallard, Secretary able to report a partial success for We have recently experienced HBA's lobbying efforts. problems with our HBA Announce e- In future, on a case-by-case basis, mail list, resulting in us having to make NHS. We ran out of time at our January meeting but have more time Ofcom will consider licensing LPAM an unscheduled move to a different stations at up to 5W emrp, where the server. As a result, we are getting scheduled in March. We can, no doubt, debate this in Northampton too! standard power level (1W emrp) does bounce messages from a number of not allow for adequate coverage of the stations. We're trying to contact the licensed site. If you are currently an stations involved but if you think you're Patient Entertainment LPAM licensee and having easily not receiving messages from this list, demonstrable reception problems please get in touch with me and I'll sort Systems Subcommittee within your hospital, I suggest you read things out. At the January EC meeting, Geoff Ofcom's new guidance notes for RSLs Fairbairn was appointed Chairman of (available from their website) and apply Strategic Review the Patient Entertainment Systems to Ofcom for a re-evaluation. It will As part of our CAF consultant's subcommittee, replacing June cost you £200. health-check on HBA and her Snowden, who has been HBA's Unfortunately, we were not facilitation of the EC developing of a primary contact with the bedside successful in getting Ofcom to relax the strategic plan for the Association, she entertainment systems providers since rules surrounding acknowledgement of held a workshop at the start of the the first Patient Power installations. ‘overspill’ reception, even if the January EC meeting, during which we If you have any queries about, or reception was at another hospital or discussed the strengths and weaknesses would like help regarding bedside elderly care home. of HBA and what we saw the mission entertainment systems, please contact Ofcom are also going to licence long- and vision of the organisation to be. Geoff ([email protected], 0870 term RSLs based on what they term Another workshop is planned for the 321 6012). Audio Distribution System technology – March EC meeting, focussed on the this is a low power (up to 1W) FM organisational structure of the Vacancies transmission, usually in the 60.75MHz Association. After around five years in the role, to 62.75MHz band (but potentially Those of you attending the Spring Marie Harper has decided to stand available on other frequencies). This Conference will, I hope, be able to down as the HBA's Executive may be an alternative to LPAM or participate in further workshops to help Administrator effective 22nd April, Induction Loop, but further guide us in the right direction. Then, although she will remain as part of the investigation will be necessary. I am over the summer, we should be able to events team, looking after conference aware that the Prison Radio Association issue a more formal consultation bookings, etc. is very interested in using this document setting out the EC's The EC would like to thank Marie for technology, so there may be some joint suggested ways forward. In the all her hard work over the last five years. work that we can do to develop this. meantime, if you have any questions or Unfortunately, John Watson has also comments, please get touch. advised that, due to extreme pressures Charity Law of ‘real’ work, he needs to step down Northern Ireland as Membership Manager. The draft Charities (Northern The Future of Hospital The EC is looking for volunteers to Ireland) Order which, if approved, will Broadcasting fill these roles – you may have already create a Northern Ireland Charity In parallel with discussing the future seen ‘adverts’ via the HBA Announce Commission and generally pretty-much of the HBA, the EC have started to e-mail list. If you are interested, please align charity law in Northern Ireland discuss the future of hospital review the role descriptions on the with that elsewhere in the UK has been broadcasting in the light of the Contact Us page on the website and presented to both houses of Parliament. restructuring or modernisation of the get in contact. It needs the positive approval of both
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houses before being forward to the amendment clause in the constitution. operating, on the provisional list. I have Privy Council for approval (this is in lieu • For financial years that begin on or provided OSCR with contact details for of it being approved by the Northern after 27th February, charities no longer these stations, as well as alerting the Ireland Assembly). need to consider expenditure in stations directly by e-mail or letter. If determining whether or not they need you're in Scotland, please check that England and Wales to submit annual returns to the Charity your station is on the Scottish Charity The first parts of the Charities Act Commission. Register by going to OSCR's website 2006 came into force on 27th • The Charity Commission has the (www.oscr.org.uk). If you are not on February. The changes that may impact power to determine the membership of the register, you cannot refer to yourself hospital radio stations are: a charity where this is in doubt. as a charity. • The rules covering purchase of It is proposed that the next change Trustee Indemnity Insurance are will be made at the beginning of April, WARWICK changing, making it OK for Trustees to when the income threshold for purchase this, once they have formally LEWIS mandatory registration with the Charity Warwick pre- agreed that it is in the best interests of Commission will increase from the sented a show the charity to do so, unless it is current £1,000 to £5,000. on Tuesday specifically forbidden by their nights for constitution. The Charity Commission Scotland Torbay Hospital also gains the power to absolve The Office of the Scottish Charity Radio, which Trustees of personal liability where they Regulator (OSCR) are about to remove he joined in have acted honestly and reasonably. over 5,000 organisations from the 2000 in the • Unincorporated charities are able Scottish Charity Register that they have hope that he to change most parts of their been unable to contact. There were a might share some of his vast collection constitution without approval of the number of hospital radio stations, of vinyl (over 10,000 7 inch singles) Charity Commission, even if there is no including some that are definitely still with some of the patients in Torbay Hospital. Father of two and husband to Cynthia, Warwick was 59 when DO YOU HAVE A BACK-UP PLAN he passed away suddenly and unexpectedly recently. FOR BROADCASTING? Warwick’s taste in music was eclectic. His shows ranged from the Do you broadcast over a bedside consider withdrawing their service sublime to the ridiculous often TV, radio and phone system? therein and re-deploying the featuring little known tracks from the How would you continue to equipment unless a revised 50s, 60s and 70s and occasionally sporting what he called the ‘Worst reach your audience if the system commercial arrangement can be record of all time’ which he even stopped working? reached. conceded was ‘so bad, it was good’ – Some operators of in-patients' Your Trust(s) may have drafted this of course being Joe Meek and bedside entertainment and phone contingency plans against this Geoff Goddard’s creation – Skymen. systems, the most widely known of possibility, or may be so doing. Warwick was a walking encyclopedia which is Patientline, are finding You could check that this is the of music. Not only could he tell you that revenues are lower than case and, if not, strongly encourage the artists of the records he played, he anticipated in their business plans. them to formulate such plans. could tell you the label, the producer This could result in a company and most of the team responsible for it. We believe that the minimum His shows reflected this and were terminating its concession notice required in respect of most always varied and informative. He put agreement at sites that generate installations is six months. his knowledge of music to good use lower levels of income than at In each case the period would outside the studios too and his team others, in order to concentrate on have been negotiated between the came first in the Torbay Big Music the higher earning hospitals. company and the Trust at the time Quiz last year when his team beat our We have already heard of one the contract was agreed. other Hospital Radio Team by a small hospital whose Trust has been margin – something he reminded us of given six months notice of the Patientline has agreed a revised when we got too cocky! cessation of services. Warwick trawled through boot fairs bank facility with its syndicate of in an effort to find those hard to get Patientline is, as part of its lenders which provides the pieces. How he knew what he needed recovery strategy, targeting 'low company with secure funding until is a mystery to me as he did not use a contribution' hospitals and will March 2008. computer to record his vast collection. In fact, he harboured an immense dislike and mistrust of our studio THE NEXT EDITION OF ON AIR WILL INCLUDE computer and playout system for PHOTOS OF THE WINNERS which he was teased mercilessly. Warwick took all the jests in the good OF THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL RADIO AWARDS. humour he always exhibited. His sense IF YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOS, PLEASE SEND THEM of fun made him a great person to have TO THE EDITOR (ADDRESS PAGE 1) around the station and he will be sorely missed by all who knew him. WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION. Our thoughts naturally are with MANY THANKS IN ANTICIPATION Cynthia and the family at this time.
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All Our Yesterdays
Who was it who said that Nostalgia Dennis Rookard still on her travels. I can’t off hand is not what it used to be. For those old looks back at past editions remember just when this great idea of timers amongst us in hospital wireless, having June representing the Nostalgia usually means attending some of On-Air Association at such events first started reunion and meeting up again with and I often wonder over the years just some long lost friends or remembering how many station openings, reunions what the studio was like in our day, and other hospital broadcasting state before the opening of their new state of occasions she has graced. the art studio. Unfortunately, it can Now I know I’m in for a painful mean as I did a few weeks back, hand bagging the next time we meet up standing gazing over a barbed wire but those of us who know and love festooned fence at a patch of churned June often make jokes about her up mud and rubble. For in the building making a royal progress around the that stood on that very site was once nation, a pile of Long Service awards the proud home of the station I cut my clutched tightly in hand and having the broadcasting teeth on way back in the almost unique ability to show a sixties. continuing interest in the latest Yes, you’ve guessed it, I was visiting a computer assisted programming aid. closed down hospital awaiting But for stations a visit from our June demolition for the creation of yet as our HBA President is often the another upmarket housing estate. Once, highlight of the year. You can be sure of course, Harold Wood Hospital in that before she cuts a ribbon, cake or the London Borough of Havering was a gives a speech, working parties will vibrant place, having grown from have been hard at work cleaning up the beginnings as a small cottage hospital, studio complex. Surfaces polished, before wartime brought the addition of assorted junk finally, amid protests, the ten or so wartime prefab style thrown into the skip and orders placed wards built by the American Air Force morning complete with a roast chicken for the buffet. And let’s not forget the for injured airman. Then in the late to munch as he played in the music and opportunities the event can offer. sixties, the addition of a multi-storey pre-recorded tapes. And how could I When better to invite the local hospital Maternity Block and finally, within the forget our tame engineer who used the big wigs, who normally never bother to last twenty years, yet another new studio as a test bed for some wild and answer your meeting requests, in for a building for extra wards, clinics, labs wacky electronic ideas. He ended up glass of wine and a caught in the and offices – all until the shock with British Aerospace designing things corner and pressed up against the wall announcement of its closure, receiving that go in the sharp end of missiles. conversation to sort out problems. And the programmes of HWR. The reason I was back on my old let’s not forget that a slash in the local Yes, I have to confess I had a little stamping ground was that for our next press about the station. Oh yes and a tear in my eye standing there, as I edition of our video magazine, group photo of those Long Service fondly remembered back to a time in Eastward Hospital Television had award recipients. So long may you the mid-sixties when a group of tape decided to not only check out the two continue your most welcome visits recorder enthusiasts pushed open the local general hospitals being demolished June and long may your diary be full. door of a prefab converted into an but have a look at the new state of the And finally, talking about friends of office for the small administration staff art hospital replacing them. You’d have the association, was it only in 2002 that to ask the hospital secretary for thought our simple request to talk to we gained the services of Terry Wogan permission to start a radio station for somebody about their nice new hospital as first our ambassador and then as a the patients. That he agreed to our idea would be easy. But after countless good friend. Together with Ken Bruce of visiting the wards to collect requests, unanswered e-mails, telephone calls (ex Glasgow HBS) both have often or that we would build a studio in a and letters, we decided the only way to gone out of way to support our disused store room or indeed that the get co-operation from these petty movement. hospital electrician happily gave up his bureaucrats was fight fire with fire – So again thanks. spare time to help us lay cables into a we told them that the local MP, who battered tuner and relay amplifier box had been flooded with complaints still amazes me. You can be sure it about the local hospital closures was If you would like June wouldn’t happen today. more then happy to meet up with us Little did he know how our new outside their nice new building for an to visit your station, hobby would change our lives! How, interview. Suddenly we were their best please contact her. for example, out of that original gang of friends, calls returned, questions 20, 16 of us went on to find work in answered, in fact falling over Either give her a call the broadcast industry, including a themselves to be helpful. Funny that! on 0870 321 6009 certain local lad by the name of Noel For this month’s look back at a Edmonds, who showed great promise previous edition of On Air, I’ve selected or email her at as a presenter. I wonder what became edition number 87 which thudded onto [email protected] of him? Or of another member called your studio mats in February 2002. Baz who appeared one Christmas From it I see that June Snowden was
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Birch Radio ... Relocation Part Two
The story so far ... Birch Radio, Rochdale was losing its home of 28 years to the property developer. There was no room at the Rochdale Infirmary, so after discussions with other neighbouring stations and the Trust, it was decided we would move in with the Bury Lions at Fairfield Hospital and continue, somehow, to broadcast to the Infirmary. The Trust gave us £20,000 and also converted the smoking rooms in a cellar to something suitable for studios but now we needed a contractor to supply and fit everything, and, of course, more money! With the conversion work scheduled to finish by Christmas 2006, several things still needed to be resolved. Who would do the installation? How would we raise the additional funds? How would our programmes get the five miles between hospitals and what sort What’s this for? of telephone system would suit our needs? form later, the full 10k was applied for. confirmed my secret thoughts and one The first question was easily On 27th December we received a of which was like a university lecture. I answered as the three quotes obtained wonderful Christmas present, when we was proud I that I actually understood following SBES 2005 were studied by were told we had been successful! some of it! the Trust and, with their The good news was we now knew Then, two weeks before installation recommendation, we went to SBES we could pay Nick (we hadn’t told him began, we met the Trust’s telecoms 2006 to award the job to Nick Beer of of our dilemma previously!) but we man who dropped into the Westcountry Broadcast. We had a long were still short for everything else on conversation that their phone system discussion, refined the equipment list our wish list. ran over a VOIP network and then and agreed on a January start date. So more applications were written to confirmed that it could be used to link It must be said that we asked a the Police, the Banks, the Co-ops, the the hospitals! When asked, the I.T. thousand questions of Nick by phone Councils and all the Lions, Rotary and man was happy with this as it avoided and e mail during the intervening Round Tables we could think of. To his network!! (More secret thoughts). period and always received an honest date we have most of the money for So the only question to be answered and patient reply. Myriad, enough for the phone system was what piece of kit is needed at The new telephone system was the and promises of various other bits and either end to convert the audio onto the subject of many such questions. I think bobs. The application form filling IP network and vice versa. That we changed our minds on a least five continues as I type! question still remains today because the occasions. If money was no object, this Our other major concern was how telecoms man says it’s an I.T. decision wouldn’t have happened but it was, so our programmes would get over to the but they say it’s his. Oh Hum! it did. Eventually we still opted against Infirmary. A radio link was out of the Similar problems loomed with the cheapest system but felt the Comrex question due to the intervening terrain, Patientline. Even though they are in the Stac 6 would give us the best expansion so we innocently suggested that as the room next door, we could not enter options. Well you have to be optimistic Trust had agreed to pay all the costs without the Engineer’s boss saying so. don’t you? associated with the link, why not use E mails from us and the Trust got no And talking of money, we were still their I.T. network. No chance was the response. Then the Engineer himself only 60% of the way towards the reply, there was not enough capacity transferred elsewhere leaving only the original estimate, never mind the funds and we might introduce viruses, etc!! admin staff on site. At this rate we for the telephone system ... oh and the My thoughts remain in my head to wouldn’t even be able to broadcast to upgrade to Myriad! So we decided to avoid the magazine being sued for libel. our host hospital, never mind one back try the Lottery. The alternative was to use in Rochdale. We had been successful twice completely unlimited broadband Time marched on and the before, once for our initial purchase of connections at either end, which would installation began on 28th January. Myriad and once to refurbish our OB need the installation of telephone lines Nick, along with his colleague Tony, trailer. However, as we could only and, of course, the on-going costs of all arrived after the long journey from apply for a maximum of £5,000 when this. The revenue consequentials of this Devon with a Transit full of wood, we first submitted the application form, did not go down too well with the racks, equipment and much more. All we had to find more funding Trust, so the I.T. man said that their of which had to be decanted into our possibilities. Then our application was network was to be upgraded and cellar. First problem, the staircase down returned because some of the rules had would have enough capacity in 12 to the studio is low, narrow and turns changed regarding who could be a months or so. (No mention of viruses through 90 degrees. The racks being referee. At the same time, the now!) 2.4 metres high would not go in! maximum grant was raised to £10,000. At SBES I had several conversations The alternative entrance is via a fire So one new referee and application about the subject, most of which exit. This too is accessed down a
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narrow flight of external steps, with another 90 degree turn. The ground is about ten feet higher than the door and railings atop a stone wall prevent people falling into stairwell. So the answer was to rive the railings off the wall, along with the rather big coping stone and lower the racks over the wall. The racks went in but I don’t think they will ever come out again! Over the following seven days, Nick and Tony worked like Trojans at the new site, while we dismantled the old studios and delivered it to Fairfield where it was to become studios 2 and 3. The telecom man put a BT line into the Racks Room but the Broadband was absent and no internal lines appeared. The saniflow on the new toilet went funny and flooded Patientline’s admin office, a transformer blew and plunged two of the studios into darkness but Nick and Tony Work in progress in Studio One The old Studio One from Birch Radio – now carried gamely on. the new Studio Two at Roch Valley Radio The good news was Nick got Patientline’s blessing to put a cable into their room, which their engineer would connect up on his next visit (whenever that may be) and at the same time run a phone line back from their system to connect patients to us via their bed-sets. Virtually seven days to the hour after arriving, Nick announced that the studios were finished as far as could be until the telecoms and hospital links were installed by the Trust. So we waved him and Tony goodbye, set about cleaning up, learning how to work everything and thinking of how we would train everyone before broadcasting recommenced. Before we could launch the station, not only did we need all the connections to the various hospitals but we needed to solve a contentious issue, what would be the new station name? Having merged with the Bury Lions The old Studio two from Birch Radio is now Studio One completed and been joined by a community group the new Studio hree at roch Valley Radio from nearby Heywood, we needed a name to represent the new partnership, door of Fairfield Hospital, our new a new Committee and some policies abode. and procedures setting down. So a I suppose this is just the end of the meeting was arranged in a local pub, beginning. There is still much to do well away from the bar, that would not from training our new members, sound- finish until everything was agreed. proofing the rather boomy studios, After settling in for a long night, it publicising the new station, keeping the actually only took about ninety minutes money coming in and broadcasting for to agree everything. Perhaps it was the the next 25 years. karaoke by the barmaids in the next I’ll let you know how we get on! room that encouraged a quick decision. By the way, for those of you who With the Committee elected and the read the first part of this article, the policies agreed, the name that was piece of string was eight inches long. chosen almost unanimously was Roch We needed it to pull a cable through Valley Radio, representing the River the hole in the concrete ceiling that had Roch which flows along the valley taken some poor man from the Trust an connecting Birch Hill Hospital, our old hour to drill! home, via Heywood and past the back Bob Chadwick One of the racks
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Night Out at Swap Shop
On my show back in October last (‘Delia or no Delia’ joked Noel as he year, I decided to celebrate a TV introduced her); while in the studio anniversary, which at that time seemed other guests included Strictly Come to have been totally ignored by the Dancing judge Arlene Phillips who BBC. Back in 1976, a revolutionary talked about the exercise routines she new show started on BBC1 on presided over on Saturday Superstore. Saturday mornings. Those who have taken part as Thirty years on, Swap Shop and all viewers were there as well. The the programmes that have followed in person who grilled Margaret Thatcher that slot, have been enjoyed by millions on where she would be in the event of and produced some classic TV a nuclear war, the Take That fan who moments as well as influencing quite a got a surprise performance in her front few things we see on TV today. room and the person who appeared on To celebrate the 30th anniversary, I Swap Shop and did the Rubiks Cube in played some classic clips and talked to 37 seconds – the first time this had special guests Maggie Philbin (Swap been done on TV. Shop, Saturday Superstore and The show tried to reflect all aspects Saturday Picture Show), Trevor and of Saturday morning TV – from the Simon (Going Live and Live and funny with Trev and Simon’s mad
Kicking) and Mitch Johnson (voiceover wear and everyone had been asked to sketches to the very moving with on Live and Kicking) on my show. None bring along items to swap with the Michael Crawford talking about the of these people were aware of any celebrity guests. dancers who had Downs Syndrome BBC show being planned, so I genuinely The original Swap Shop team of who had danced to ‘Music of the thought it had been forgotten or just Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, Maggie Night’ on Going Live. ignored. Not so! About a month later the Philbin and John Craven were reunited The show took nearly three hours to person behind and the first half of the show was record but the atmosphere in the studio www.saturdaymornings.co.uk told me mainly about that programme, before was fantastic and all those who took there were plans afoot by the BBC to moving on to the other shows with their part seemed to sense that and were celebrate the anniversary and sure presenters as guests. quite openly enjoying themselves. enough details of ‘It Started with Swap There were celebrity guests who Noel Edmonds himself seemed Shop’ were released a few days later. have been part of Saturday morning genuinely touched at the enthusiasm After submitting some of my own TV in one way or another, including that the audience showed as he spoke memories of Saturday morning TV: Johnny Ball trying to explain why he to us after the standing ovation at the Billy Connolly reading the top ten board had brought a replica commode as a end and I hope that atmosphere came on Swap Shop, Mrs Thatcher being swap on one edition of Swap Shop. across when the programme was quizzed about nuclear bunkers on Dame Edna Everage was on the eventually shown. It is after all the Saturday Superstore, Phillip Schofield phone from Australia and swapped a studio atmosphere and the enjoyment of and Emma Forbes cooking on Going ticket to her Melbourne show for a those taking part that has been such a Live, Trev and Simon’s mad sketches, copy of the song recorded by the Swap strong part of the success of Saturday the two bunnies getting very friendly Shop team – remember Brown Sauce? morning TV over the years. under the hot studio lights, etc – I Unfortunately, even though that was That atmosphere actually continued received a priority ticket for the show’s my swap, I wasn’t quite quick enough even on the way home. It seemed like recording at the BBC in London in in raising my hand! half of the audience were on the same December 2006. Delia Smith, who became a famous train on the underground – all wearing On arrival the audience, were all TV cook as a result of her Swap Shop their Swap Shop hats of course! presented with Swap Shop hats to appearances, was also on the phone Neil Ogden
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Launch of Virtual Visiting
justviziting.com is a free and secure the most benefit from visiting to helping online service developed by Paul Smith hospital staff with infection control. It and Jeff Cummings to help the family also has a maternity section. and friends of those in hospital to get in The whole point of justviziting.com, touch and keep in touch. according to the founders, is to make it Paul runs the well-known Three easier for families and friends of loved Tuns public house in Gateshead where the online visiting room ones in hospital to get in touch with his friend Jeff and Jeff’s father, Albert, one another and keep up to date with were regulars every Tuesday night for their loved one’s situation. They believe their weekly pint together. that many people will find this a At the beginning of 2006, Albert was valuable source of support during what diagnosed with a serious illness. He was are often very stressful times. told the only cure was major surgery. The site has already attracted No-one knew about Albert’s illness attention from local media with Paul and until he went into the Royal Victoria Jeff being interviewed for BBC Radio Infirmary in Newcastle for his Newcastle and Century Radio as well operation. After that, friends at the as articles appearing in the local press. Three Tuns were constantly asking Paul However, it is with the help of for news on Albert’s progress. On one hospital radio that they hope to reach particular occasion a customer asked patients and their families and friends to Paul to keep him posted and this led to let them know about justviziting.com. Paul having the idea of posting a daily messages in the room as well as contact Radio Tyneside has been a keen update on the pub’s own website. each other directly. The messages sent supporter from the start. Dave Paul said, ‘I was about to update our to the room can be printed off to take in Nicholson, Station Director and HBA website with the latest bands I’d for the patient at the next visit, helping VP, told the Northern Echo on 4th booked and I just thought why not put to lift their spirits and giving something January, ‘This is a terrific idea and I a little bulletin on the site with the news to talk about. could immediately see the benefits for I got from Jeff about how his Dad was With running the pub, Paul often hospital listeners. With restricted getting on. Then anybody who was finds himself in the position of knowing numbers of visitors at beds, it’s a interested could keep in touch’. someone is in hospital, wanting to let dilemma faced by many on how to When Paul originally told Jeff about them know he’s thinking of them but reach loved ones with news on his idea he was immediately taken with not wanting to be intrusive. As he says, patients. Equally, hospital staff need to it. ‘When my Dad was in hospital, I ‘I often think about sending a card or set aside time to answer queries on the was the one who had the job of something but, I’m sorry to say, don’t phone. keeping everyone else, other family and usually get around to it for whatever This new website will help address friends, up-to-date with news of how reason. With justviziting.com it would both of these problems and it’s great things were going. I would drop my be so easy to leave a message saying news that, as a free service, it’s open to Mum at home after visiting, make sure ‘hope you’re feeling better, there’s one absolutely everyone.’ she was okay and then start to make the in the pump for you when you get Tony Swinhoe, North Regional nightly round of phone calls when I got back’.’ Representative and staunch supporter, in. Sometimes I couldn’t get everyone As the idea began to grow, the many included justviziting.com as an agenda on the night so I would try to catch other benefits of such a service began to item for the regional meeting in them the next morning. It was great that become clearer and were incorporated January. From that, John Williamson everyone was so concerned and caring into the justviziting.com site. Apart from of Kendal Hospital Radio contacted the but, to be honest, there were times being a free service, its convenience and boys at justviziting and after getting when sitting phoning people at the end accessibility were very evident. together decided that they were the of a long day was the last thing I felt Once the online room is opened, ideal sponsors for the ‘Get Well Soon’ like doing. The thought of being able to people can visit at any time of the night card KHR send to all patients. just put a short update on a website or day, every day of the year whenever As Jeff says, ‘justviziting.com is where most of the people I was calling they have the time. And with the basically the two of us, Paul and I. could visit whenever they wanted to internet, distance is no problem. This We’re trying to build partnerships with catch up was really appealing’. would have been especially useful the right people and organisations to One of the major concerns initially when Jeff’s brother had to return to spread the word about justviziting so for Paul and Jeff was how to make London after Albert’s operation and for that people have the opportunity to information about individual patients keeping friends in New Zealand benefit from the service. Ideally, we’ll confidential and secure and not openly informed. The feeling of community attract some corporate sponsorship available to just anyone who may be within any room will help friends and which will be ploughed back in to help surfing the net. To get around this family who cannot be there in person our partners to help us raise awareness. problem they developed the notion of to feel much more actively involved. We hope more hospital radio stations the online visiting room. With this It is also hoped that hospital staff, will want to come on board.’ system, a relative or friend of the especially nurses, will see a benefit Any HBA station wanting to find patient (or even the patient themselves from the reduction in telephone calls out more about justviziting.com and if they are well enough) can quickly wards enquiring about their patients’ possible partnership arrangements and easily create their very own visiting progress. should email Jeff at room on the justviziting.com site and In addition to the messaging and [email protected] or use the only people who are invited can enter noticeboard service, rooms contain ‘contact us’ form on the website. that room. specific information on visiting times for As well as catching up with the latest that patient as well as general advice on Jeff Cummings will be at the news, visitors can also post their own hospital visiting, from tips on how to get Northampton Conference Trade Show.
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PAUL BAJORIA PAUL EASTON Speech Package MEET THE JUDGES Station of the Year Production This year we have 35 Paul has been working Paul started his career judges helping decide the professionally in radio in hospital radio whilst since 1974, having first attending the Royal winners in this year’s caught the radio ‘bug’ Grammar School in National Hospital Radio four years earlier while Newcastle upon doing hospital radio. Tyne. He went on to take a degree in Awards, ten of which are His career includes stints with LBC, English Literature at Oxford University judging for the very first Ocean Sound, Melody Radio and and the University of Toronto, where time. Find out a little more Capital, where he produced shows with he did some work for a local station. radio legends such as Kenny Everett, Alan On returning to this country he joined about them ... Freeman and Tony Blackburn. Paul BBC Radio Newcastle both presenting currently runs his own radio programming consultancy, which and producing. industry organisation that collects and Since 1996 he has been a producer on specialises in providing station monitoring distributes airplay and public and programme analysis for OFCOM BBC Radio 4 based in Manchester and performance royalties on behalf of over currently produces Round Britain Quiz licence applications. He is a ‘Visiting 3,500 record companies and 40,000 Teacher’ on various radio and journalism along with a range of other features performers. and documentaries. He has also courses at the London College of recently written two children’s books, Communication and writes the fortnightly which have recently been published. TREVOR ‘Programming Points’ in The Radio He still lives in the North East with his DANN Magazine. Paul has been Programming partner Jacqui who is a tv producer John Whitney Adviser to the HBA since 2006. and they have two children. Award Trevor is Director of ANDREW MARK BLACK the Radio Academy, EDWARDS Best Promo/ the professional body Special Event Trailer for the UK radio Andrew presents the Mark spent his industry. In previous lives he was Head BBC Radio Leeds younger days growing of BBC Music Entertainment, Head of breakfast show with up in Newcastle. Production at Radio 1, MD of Pop at Georgey Spanswick. After leaving school EMAP, producer of Live Aid and a He began he went to Lancaster columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and broadcasting at Kingstown Hospital University where he took English and the Times. Radio in his home town Hull, making DramaOn returning to Tyneside he got His first book, a biography of Nick his professional radio debut as a sports into hospital radio doing the early shift Drake, was published in 2006. Trevor reporter on Viking Radio. He started his at a weekend and then progressed to a presents a weekly show for the Classic career in journalism at the Hull Daily daily show. Three years ago he got a Gold network and is a Fellow of both Mail before joining the BBC as a job working behind the scenes at the Radio Academy and the Royal trainee in 1989. He’s worked at BBC Century North East which eventually Society of Arts. Radio Leeds since 1993 and began led to some on air work mainly presenting the breakfast show full time overnights. (Well, we all have to start ALAN two years later – 12 years of 3.30am somewhere). Last year he moved DEDICOAT alarm calls! Andrew is the holder of a across the Pennines to take over the late Station of the Silver Sony award and was BT Radio evening slot on CFM in Carlisle. Year News Broadcaster of the Year for the Mark is a great football fan and North East in 2000. He lives in Leeds Alan was born in with his partner, BBC Look North supports Newcastle united although Hollywood, a village doesn’t admit it to his Carlisle reporter and presenter, Cathy Killick. in north They have a six-year old daughter. colleagues. In his spare time he likes to Worcestershire and a little working out at the gym. Andrew enjoys running, photography educated at King Edward V1 Camp and singing (but not in public!). He Hill School and at Birmingham TONY CLARK combines his on air career with University reading law. After leaving teaching radio journalism and spent six Special Event university, he worked for BBC Radios years at the University of Central Tony has worked in Birmingham and Devon. Lancashire in Preston. the music business for In 1987 Alan joined the Presentation over 20 years. He Department of BBC Radio 2 in London. started his career at Since then he has been heard reading CBS Records before the news and voicing many trails and Watch out for moving onto A&M promotions as well as the lively banter where he was Deputy Managing with Terry Wogan. Alan currently leads the new style Director and then to Sony where he a dozen or so announcers that keeps headed the Strategic Marketing the network on air, he also is the ‘voice Trophy Awards Division. He is currently Director of of the balls’ on the National Lottery tv Licensing for PPL/VPL, the music programmes.
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MARK FORREST transpired – the studios of which were journalist in Bedfordshire before moving Newcomer of under the escalator at Topshop/Topman to Northants FM as their News Editor. in the Metrocentre! At the age of 18, He specialises in radio news for young the Year Steve left the north east and moved to people. He was appointed Group Mark was born in North Wales. The Evening Show on News Controller for the Kiss Network Yorkshire and his first MFM (Marcher) was the attraction. in 1996 where he was responsible for break into media was There he was a great success and it news output in Manchester, Leeds and with Harrogate wasn't long before he was promoted to London. Jon joined IRN in London as Hospital Radio. the Drivetime slot. He waved goodbye News Editor in 1997 and moved to After leaving school, he moved a little to his social life when he took over at ITN as a News Editor. He was further north to study maths at Breakfast and also became Head of appointed Editor of IRN in 2000 the Newcastle University. He continued Music. It was five years later in 1999, job he says, ‘was the one I always his hospital radio work on Tyneside and that Steve moved back home for his wanted’. Since taking charge at IRN, eventually landed himself some work biggest ever challenge: the launch of a Jon has radically reshaped the service with Metro Radio, which led to him brand new radio station – Galaxy to introduce additional targeted presenting the morning show. 105/106 to host the Breakfast Show. bulletins, new distribution technology After working on various national and Nearly eight years on and he's still there and improved communication with London radio stations, including Heart and is still loving it! IRN’s client base. and Virgin, Mark went onto present the late night phone on Century FM network of stations in the Midlands, NEIL ALEX North West, North East and South GARDNER GRUNDON Coast. He joined Classic FM in 2002 Special Event Male Presenter as part of the Saturday Breakfast team Neil was Station Alex is no stranger to and now presents the daily Classic FM Manager of his hospital radio and the Drivetime programme. student radio, UKC annual awards. He's Mark is a keen cyclist and runner. Radio (University of been part of two Kent) for two years stations – in various ANDREW between 1994 and 1996 during which forms – since 1995 and has produced FRIEND time he organised two RSL broadcasts. award-winning entries for both stations After leaving University, he joined the in London. He's also won the Male Best Promo/ radio travel news supplier Trafficlink Presenter of the Year gong twice, as Trailer & (formally Metro Networks), as a well as collecting silver and bronze for Specialised broadcaster and information editor, the national or the previous regional Music presenting bulletins for a number of categories each year since 1997. Andrew was born in stations. He joined the Radio Authority Alex has notched up nearly ten years' Durham and started his broadcasting life in 1998. For four years he worked in service with the BBC. In that time, he's at Durham Hospitals Radio. During his the Authority’s development produced news output for over forty time at college he worked for Pennine department assessing new applications radio stations, produced news stories Radio in Bradford and Metro Radio on for new local radio licences. He then from far-flung places and commissioned Tyneside. After graduating, he became transferred to the Programming & numerous stories daily for broadcast on a BBC Trainee in London, also Advertising Department. When the BBC Local and Regional Radio travelling round the country, learning OFCOM took over the work of the network. He's also done his fair share the ropes. He worked as a producer Radio Authority, Neil moved across to of programme production too. He's and presenter at BBC Radio Newcastle them and is now a Radio Executive produced daily programmes for Radios then joined Tyne Tees TV in 1990 as responsible for content and standards Oxford, Berkshire and most recently their York reporter. He has presented within Independent Radio. BBC Essex. In the past year, he's also various programmes, including the At the end of last year he left OFCOM become a freelance presenter at BBC nightly news programme, even a and joined Channel 4 Radio as a Essex. Outside work has just embarked cookery show. consultant. on the renovation of a time- and cash- Andrew is now responsible for the hungry Victorian house and maintains output of all local programmes JON GODEL an unquenchable passion for radio. transmitted by ITV Tyne Tees. Speech Package Jon is Editor of the ALEX HALL STEVE UK’s leading news Newcomer of FURNELL supplier to the UK the Year Male Presenter commercial radio Alex is a very popular Steve was 15 when stations combined broadcaster in the he got his break into with running ITN’s north of England. For radio, presenting his Multimedia division. He oversees an four and a half years first show on Hospital operation which provides news content she presented the Radio South Tyneside. and bulletins to 273 radio stations with Late Show on BBC Radios Leeds, A long journey to get there on the bus teams based at ITN and Classic FM. Sheffield, York and Humberside. and his dad picking him up when he Jon began his radio career in the In July last year Alex moved to BBC finished certainly paid off. Two years eighties at Hospital Radio Bedford Radio Cleveland as presenter of their later a move to Radio Topshop while working full-time as a newspaper mid morning show which she enjoys
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immensely. She has also done some TV everyone to sing along to the LPO. BILL McGREGOR work including a series for BBC 2 He got his lucky break with his own Best Sports Output called Year of the Pier, on the show on Radio Orwell at 18 then at Born in Comrie, a Wellbeing Channel and has also LBC Radio in London. Together with small village in central appeared in Coronation Street, Byker invaluable experience at Butlin’s and Scotland, Bill grew up Grove and Spender but is probably best various cabaret spots, he then got into in an area with a remembered playing Head Teacher telly. Chris was involved in amateur sporting passion, Jean Strickland in Emmerdale. Sadly dramatics and pantos from an early age especially for football after a number of years running up and but his greatest influence and inspiration and golf. He was lucky to become a down the school staircase she was was his grandmother who was a professional footballer playing for dispatched to her maker after being hit dancer in some of the great London Crystal Palace, Peterborough, Falkirk by a car driven by some of her pupils. Palladium pantomimes. In her footsteps, and St Johnstone, until a knee injury She is currently writing a book about he has appeared in 15 professional robbed him of his career in his her time as a late night phone in pantomimes in Richmond, Bromley, twenties. In 1973, after obtaining his presenter. Reading, Bournemouth and Basingstoke full FA Coaching Badge, he started where he is returning next season for Cramlington Junior Football Club, BARNEY ‘Snow White’. running it for ten years. He has HARWOOD commentated on sport in the North Newcomer of MICK LOWES East for both radio and television and the Year Best Sports also for hospital radio in Sunderland. He also has written for sporting Barney was born in Output magazines. Having been a judge for the Blackpool and was Football has always past two years in the sports award destined to make a been Mick’s number category, he applauds the standards name for himself in one love and show by the participants and says keep the world of entertainment, as his father originally he got up the good work. Bill occasionally was a comedian. He is best known for involved in radio does commentaries on the games at St his work on the CBBC channel. He is reporting sport on a local station in James Park for Metro Radio. the co-presenter of the Sunday morning Nottingham. He then went to London kids programme, Smile, on BBC 2. and worked as a freelancer reporting on He can also be heard on a Sunday sport for various stations then when ROY MARTIN evening on BBC Radio 4 presenting the Capital Radio launched Capital Gold Best Promo/ children’s magazine programme Go4It. Sport on their AM frequency he joined Trailer Barney has also appeared in Doctor them as a regular presenter. He has for Roy is the Station Who and is experienced on the many years now been the voice of BBC Production for keyboard. Radio Newcastle’s Newcastle United Smooth Radio in the coverage. A vastly experienced and north-west of CHRIS JARVIS Sony Award-winning broadcaster, Mick England. He joined has also covered two World Cup Finals the station over three years ago after Specialised in a career spanning over 20 years Music working at many local stations as a freelance producer/presenter. Roy Chris is currently MALCOLM started his interest in radio by hosting CBeebies McDONALD volunteering at the age of 13 at his local where he sings, acts, hospital radio station in Blackburn, dances, tells stories Best Sports where he stayed for over 10 years. and makes useful Output There he gained invaluable experience things out of old loo rolls. He also To all Newcastle of radio, both producing and presenting writes and produces music for United fans, Malcolm which helped him make his break on CBeebies. You can also hear him in was ‘Supermac’ commercial radio at the age of 17 at animations: ‘Bear & Butterfly’, during his playing days The Bay in Lancaster. In 2004, he and ‘Underground Ernie’ and on CBeebies in the 1970s. He started his football his colleagues won the local radio Radio. Chris’s other TV credits over the career with Tonbridge and has also licence for Blackburn and in 2005 past 13 years include hosting ‘Jungle played for Fulham Arsenal and Luton helped launch 107 The Bee, where is a Run’ and voicing the cartoon ‘Dream Town. It was in 1971 that Newcastle Director. Roy is also the founder of Park Street’ for ITV and ‘Maths Mansion’ snapped him up for £180,000. Media, which runs the industry website for Channel 4. Hehas presented many Arguably the highlight of his career was RadioToday.co.uk and Audio ID BBC shows including ‘Fully Booked’, when he scored all five goals for company Production Park. ‘The Friday Zone’, ‘Short Change’, England against Cyprus. Sadly, in ‘Look Sharp’, ‘Playdays’ and the ‘Broom August 1979, a persistent knee Cupboard’ where in character, he problem forced his premature JONATHAN played the Anorak. retirement at just 29. He eventually MORRELL Around the country Chris hosts family went into management with Fulham Male Presenter concerts mostly with the London and Huddersfield. Jonathan started his Philharmonic Orchestra. With the He has also worked in the licensing and career at the age of orchestra, he takes the audience on a hotel trade and now can be heard each 17 at Hospital Radio musical journey; introducing evening on Century North East Plymouth before composers, musical styles and getting presenting a football phone in. joining BBC Radio
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Cornwall as a freelance presenter. He MIKE PARR Managing Director of Talk Radio, which moved to the north east in 1988 to study Speech Package won its highest audience before being at University. Whilst there he did Mike joined BBC taken over by Talk Sport. Paul then weekend work at BBC Radio Newcastle, Radio Newcastle as joined the Walt Disney Company as Metro FM and Tyne Tees Television. their late night phone Senior Vice President, Worldwide After graduating, he trained as a in presenter which he Programming Strategy ABC Cable journalist and has fronted the breakfast continued doing until Networks Group and Managing show for BBC Radio Newcastle and 1997, when he Director and Vice President of Walt news programmes for BBC Radio moved to the morning programme. He Disney Branded Television for the UK Cleveland. He joined Tyne Tees TV in took a short break from the BBC, when and Ireland. He left Disney and now is 1996 as a reporter/ presenter on news he joined Century Radio in the North a media consultant. and factual programmes. He turned East to host their lunchtime phone in freelance in September 2001 and programme. He returned to Radio PAULA worked for Yorkshire TV. He is now Newcastle where he has since ROGERS back at Tyne Tees where he presents presented their award winning Station of the their nightly news programme and also breakfast show. presents the mid morning show on Year Century North East. Paula started out at CHRIS REAY hospital radio in SIMON NICKS Special Event Wakefield and then Chris started his moved onto AA Specialised career in hospital Roadwatch in Leeds and Cheadle. She Music radio at Radio North then joined BBC Radio Cleveland Simon was born in Tees in Stockton. where she worked as a trails producer Gateshead and got Whilst there he also and a weekend presenter. She has for involved in hospital worked as a freelance the past eight years worked as the radio whilst still at technical operator for BBC Radio Promotions Producer for BBC Radio 2, school. After about Cleveland. He then spent ten months responsible for their on air promotions four years with his local station, he on attachment to BBC Resources in and is also responsible for the Children moved on working for TFM in Stockton Manchester as an Audio Assistant, in Need radio event. Last year Paula then onto a number of other ILR stations returning to the North East to work as moved to Birmingham where she is across the country including a stint with a Broadcast Assistant at Look North in producing programmes for Radio 2. the now defunct Long Wave station, Newcastle. After a year in news, he Atlantic across in Ireland. He joined moved into Station Sound. Chris JOHN Galaxy in the north east when the worked on promotion and imaging for ROSBOROUGH station started, as their breakfast BBC Radio Cleveland, BBC Radio r presenter then moved to the same slot Northampton and since it's launch in Female Presente on Galaxy’s sister station in Manchester. 2003, BBC 6 Music. Since August John’s career in At the end of last year he moved stations 2006, Chris has been working on Northern Ireland to Key 103 in Manchester to present Station Sound across BBC Radio 2 and spans over 30 years. their late night phone in show, which 6 Music. He has won Trails Producer He was with says he finds challenging after years of of the Year for BBC network radio, gold Downtown Radio ‘saying nothing’ in between songs for so and silver Station Sound Awards in from its start becoming Head of many years. BBC Local Radio and his work was Programming. He then joined Cool nominated for Best Promotional FM, where he remained until 2000 MIKE PARKER Campaign in the 2006 New York Radio when he moved along the dial to take Awards. the job of Station Director with Promo/trailer Citybeat. Three years ago he moved to Mike started in UTV and was given the task of hospital radio six years PAUL applying for the new radio licence for ago in Merthyr Tydfil. ROBINSON another station in Belfast, which they At the same time he Newcomer of won and is known as U105. helped out behind the the Year John has been made a Fellow of the scenes at Real Radio Radio Academy. Wales. Whilst studying A-levels and Paul started his career working at a fast food restaurant, he in hospital radio in the managed persuaded the Programme London area before CHARLES Controller of Valleys Radio to give him moving to the North RUNCIE a show. That lasted for nine months East. He joined Radio Tees (now Best Sports before being offered a job as a TFM) as a presenter then moved to the Midlands where after many positions in Output presenter on Red Dragon Radio. In Charles is Head of March last year he left Wales and both radio and TV became Programme Director of the Chiltern Radio Sport for BBC English moved to London to take up a job as an Regions, co-ordinating Audio Producer for Kiss 100. Network. In 1990 he joined the BBC, as Head of Programmes at Radio 1 then the output of over 150 people in the sports departments of ON AIR ISSUE 116 became Head of Strategy and Development for BBC Network Radio. England's 40 BBC local radio stations, FULL AWARDS RESULTS After leaving the BBC, he became 12 regional television newsrooms and
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their associated text and online services. DICK STONE Unfortunately due to illness he had to He is responsible for the management Female/Male abandon that idea and as temporary of the many BBC Local Radio sports employment, started answering the commentary contracts, the coverage Presenter telephones for a late night phone in on from major sporting events such as the Dick began his BBC Radio Newcastle. This led to other Commonwealth Games, Wimbledon professional radio work behind the scenes before being and the World Snooker championship, career at Radio Trent offered the early breakfast show on the and developing TV output on in Nottingham after station. This meant getting up at programmes and series like the nine years in Hospital 3.00am, which he says, ‘he enjoyed’. Superleague Show. He also works for Radio in Derby after leaving school. He must have as he now works as the BBC Sport on a number of areas in Originally destined for the teaching early morning newsreader on both which network and regional sport work profession, the radio bug pulled him GMTV and Tyne Tees TV. He says the together to share editorial content, into broadcasting and he began advantage of working on TV is that now resources and talent. Charles is a covering shows in the East Midlands he doesn’t have to get up until 3.30am! veteran of hospital radio, having been before beginning a nine year stint on with the Royal Free Network in the Breakfast Show in Derby. During that time he became the Derby station’s CLIVE Hampstead from December 1976 to WARREN June 1980. He started his full time Programme Controller as well, re- broadcasting career at Radio Orwell in launching as RAM FM and later moved Female Presenter Suffolk and after four years at BBC back to 96 Trent FM as Programme Clive continues to Scotland moved to BBC Radio Sport in Controller where he stayed for eight present for market London in 1987. He held a number of years before moving to a group role leading or national positions there, including being one of with parent company GCap Media as radio station having the launch editors for the new Radio 5 Programme Director. Dick now works joined 105.4 Century Live in March 1994. with a large number of stations across FM in the north west of England. He the country and at group level, setting started by volunteering at Radio strategic direction and programming Moorfields, based at the world ALAN SOADY content. Dick is married with two renowned Moorfields Eye Hospital in Specialised children and lives in Derbyshire. London. The hospital radio station, Music established by Ivor Gilbert, closed last Alan’s career began BEN WALKER year following medical breakthroughs, whilst at Newcastle Station of the Year patients are no longer needed to stay University. He joined Ben began work at overnight. hospital radio and Greater London Radio Clive is very passionate about radio was also editor of in 1997 whilst broadcasting and in his 20 year career the student newspaper, The Courier. studying history at has worked as a frontline presenter for After getting his degree, he moved university in London. BBC Radio One, Capital Radio, Virgin to Sheffield where he gained a After spending two Radio and Heart 106.2. Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast years making tea and reporting on He says, ‘it's a great honour to be Journalism. During his time in Sheffield, Millwall matches, he moved to BBC chosen as judge for this years Hospital Alan freelanced at radio stations across Radio 2 where he worked as a Radio Awards – every year the quality the north of England, including Broadcast Assistant primarily on the of entries just gets better and better’. Liverpool's Radio City 96.7 and Galaxy Johnnie Walker and Ken Bruce shows. 102 Manchester where he filled in for After a three year spell in the Radio 2 IAN WHITE two months as a breakfast journalist. Live Music Unit, he left the BBC to join Speech Package After finishing his course he worked for Dermot O'Leary's production company From an early age almost a year as the breakfast journalist Murfia, in order to produce his Saturday Ian wanted to be a back in the north east at Galaxy 105- show for BBC Radio 2. He has been newsreader and got 106. From there, Alan was taken on as there for the past two years and has the chance when he a Broadcast Journalist at Real Radio given bands such as The Feeling, Mika, joined hospital radio Yorkshire in March 2002, when the Ghosts and Orson their first UK plays in Newcastle when station launched. and live sessions. Other career highlights only 16 and still at school. In April 2003 he became a Senior include broadcasting from South by After leaving school, he worked on a Broadcast Journalist and Morning South West, Glastonbury, Buckingham programme about the development of Editor, fronting the breakfast bulletins Palace, The Brits and Maida Vale with the bicycle which has been screened and the News at One programme. many live sessions including Bowie, Beck around the world. He then worked for In 2005 he moved south and to the and Massive Attack. a subtitling company before getting BBC working at BBC Radio Kent. Later work with the BBC in Norwich, both that year he moved to BBC London MARK WARR on radio and tv. where he continues his career as an Female Presenter Ian moved to the BBC Leeds in 1996 to SBJ. Mark started his produce and read both the breakfast career at hospital and evening news bulletins. He then ON AIR ISSUE 116 radio in St Albans, moved over to TV and is seen regularly WILL CARRY THE FULL then moved to the reading the 10.25 bulletin on BBC 1 AWARDS RESULTS north east to train as a and regularly deputises on the nightly school teacher. Look North programme.
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Publicity within the Hospital by Anna O’Brien Station Manager, Winchester Hospital Radio
makes their station more visible around request programme. If you can get the wards. If your hospital produces a prizes like this, hopefully more patients Patient’s Handbook or Admissions Pack, will get involved and you can be sure try and get your service included in it. the winners will probably tell the whole Have a website ward they’ve won something by Many patients now have access to listening to you! the internet at the bedside and it’s a Promote your station on air great way to inform people of what you Alongside standard station idents, do. include promos that highlight the work Include details of your you do, forthcoming events you’re running, how people can support you, service on the bedside volunteer recruitment details, etc. ‘I didn’t even know I had a Patient Power units Make your station more radio!’ Many of these companies such as How often have you heard those Patientline offer a rolling information visible around the hospital Get the look! – get your volunteers words from a patient whilst you’ve service so you could have a page on wearing polo shirts or sweatshirts with been chatting and collecting requests there outlining how to tune in to your your station logo on so they’re instantly on the wards? More often than you’d programmes. You may also be able to recognisable when they go round the like – probably. persuade their staff to distribute your wards. Raising awareness of your service in Programme Guides, especially if your Winchester Hospital Radio the hospital will not only gain you more volunteers are regularly logging patients volunteers also have zip-up folders with listeners but more supporters, onto their systems. the station’s logo on that they take volunteers and donors – hopefully. Involve patients in your round with them – makes it much easier Promoting your service within the programmes to carry Programme Guides, ward hospital is absolutely vital and Do lots of interactive features such as magazines, request slips, pens and cards something you can never do enough of. requests, quizzes, bingo, patient for patients all in one place, especially The more people that know of your interviews, phone-ins and broadcasts when you need to put all these existence the better: they’ll tell other direct from the wards. materials down to log on a bedside people about you which makes your job radio and tune a patient in. easier; more people knowing how to Get the ward staff tune in will mean more listeners and involved too Merchandise your station the more people using your service, the Encourage them to let you know of Night-shirts, pens, mugs, coasters, more worthwhile it is both in terms of any patients’ birthdays, anniversaries, bookmarks can all be printed with your your volunteers who give their time, etc. Long after they’ve gone home, station name and logo and perhaps with and most importantly of all – to the patients will still remember any space for a phone number or how to patients whose stay in hospital you programmes they took part in. make a request. As well as getting your brighten. name seen around the hospital, all these This list aims to offer something for make great prizes and keepsakes for every station – many of the ideas you patients. may do already but hopefully there’s a Do Outside Broadcasts few fresh ideas that you can try out too! within the hospital Reach your audience on the Broadcast direct from the patients’ wards ... bedside if you can and if possible Visit patients regularly – the average broadcast from your hospital’s main length of a hospital stay is getting entrance or foyer area where you can shorter, so the more often you can get be seen by lots of staff and visitors who round each ward, the more patients can also give you requests for their you’ll meet and make aware of your loved ones as they arrive. Hospital service. Radio Basingstoke do an OB like this regularly and their Hospital Trust allow Distribute written them to fundraise at the same time. information to patients Get prizes for on air If your hospital has a summer fete, Your Programme Guides, HR Ward giveaways to patients etc get involved by running the PA and Magazines, a community newsletter if Phonecards, flowers, fruit, reporting from the event to the wards. you produce one, a card thanking them chocolates, book tokens, etc. Steve Display posters/booklets for making a request with a reminder of Catchpole at Hospital Radio Maidstone what time it will be played. Hospital gives away a box of chocs on a weekly about your service around Radio Reading‘s Programme Guide quiz. Hospital Radio Reading have a the hospital doubles as a ‘Best Wishes’ card which local bakery that provide them with a Most hospitals have designated is not only a thoughtful gesture but also cake once a week to give away on their noticeboards nowadays, so speak to
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your hospital’s Communications/PR to hear the presenter experiencing the contacts at the WRVS, the League of Department to try and get one for your Physiotherapy department first-hand. Friends, etc. Maybe they could help station if you haven’t got any. With This year’s ‘Station of the Year’ distribute or display some of your Infection controls/MRSA issues, you Hospital Radio Redhill, do a regular publicity material for patients such as may need to laminate or frame any ‘Staff Top 3’ feature. Many stations programme guides. You in turn could posters you produce for patient areas. interview the Chief Executive of their offer to put out public service If you’re allowed to – also include hospital Trust. announcements for them. displays/posters in reception areas, pre- Tie some of your programming in Link in with other assessment clinics, admission lounges with national campaigns like ‘National and canteens. In addition to patients, Nurses’ Day – you could get patients departments in the hospital All the wards you broadcast to, the relatives and staff using these areas will and staff to vote for best member of Chaplaincy, the Patient Advice and see your information. Perth have an staff etc. Even better – recruit some Liaison Service (PALS), Admissions, eye-catching poster they use to highlight current or retired hospital staff to plus any pre-assessment clinics that their need for volunteers to assist with volunteer for your station! patients may attend before coming in ward visiting. Circulate information about your for elective ops and procedures. Check Hold an open day at your station – if hospital radio to staff – Speak to your they are aware of your service and your station is on site at the hospital and hospital’s Communications/PR have some of your publicity materials in has good access, extend an open department and try and get details of their waiting areas. Many hospitals also invitation to patients, staff and visitors to your station included on the staff’s have healthcare libraries – approach come along and see you work. You intranet site, in staff newsletters or them to see if they can display some of could invite members of the hospital global staff news-emails. your information. You might also find management along too. Send the department copies of your that particularly in older hospital press releases to keep them up-to-date Involve staff and other buildings, the library has a volunteer with developments. archivist who can be a useful contact voluntary organisations Make sure your station is listed in the for any special anniversaries at the Include staff in your programmes – hospital’s phone directory. you could interview a member of staff hospital, key people/dates etc. to give patients an insight into their role Work with other voluntary As we say at the start, the at the hospital. Hospital Radio organisations in the more people that know about Chelmsford’s award-winning speech hospital your service, the better! entry in this year’s awards went one Keep in touch with the hospital’s Article repeated from On Air better and gave patients the opportunity Voluntary Services Officer. Make No. 105.
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ON A HIGH NOTE TO DINER! freephone facility provided by To mark the Chinese New Year of Patientline or to tell WHR volunteers the Pig, patients at the Royal Hampshire when they visit her ward throughout County Hospital were treated to a the week. special themed edition of Winchester On being presented with her prize, Hospital Radio's nightly request Joyce said: ‘I am thrilled to win this. It programme, 'The Sound Remedy', with was such a lovely surprise to hear my the chance to win a fine dining name drawn. This is my second stay in experience. hospital over the last few months and I Volunteers wore traditional Chinese always listen to the hospital radio – it dress for the ward-based programme keeps me going. They are such a warm and gave patients fortune cookies ... bunch of people, and always make time In addition to patients' requests, the for a chat. It is a marvellous service – I programme included some themed just wish I could hear it at home!’ songs to tie in with China.WHR Joyce from Romsey intends to share members wore traditional Chinese the prize meal with her husband dress for the ward-based programme Dennis, to whom she has been married and gave patients fortune cookies, for 66 years. which had been kindly donated along WHR volunteer Laura-Louise Ancell WHR's Programme Controller, Paul with a Chinese meal for two by presents patient Joyce Sutton with her Blitz conceived the idea of a special broadcast to mark Chinese New Year. Charles House Chinese Restaurant, Chinese New Year 'Meal for 2' prize Winchester. There were also some He said, ‘We do our best to brighten pretty Chinese paper lanterns for Patient, Joyce Sutton on Kemp Welch up patients' time in hospital and the patients which had been lovingly hand- ward was the lucky recipient of the daily request items along with our made by WHR volunteer, Laura- Chinese meal for two. 85 year old 'Brain Tickler' quiz seem to appeal to Louise Ancell. Joyce regularly listens to the hospital patients and create a lot of fun on the All patients making a music request radio and keeps a notebook of her wards. We are very grateful to Charles that night were entered into the Prize favourite songs handy to phone through House for providing us with prizes to Draw, which took place live on air. requests to the studios via the add to the fun on this occasion.’
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VOLUNTEER FAYRE would warrant the expense you are on FIFTY YEARS OF the verge of incurring. I believe you should seriously consider an earlier REQUESTS finish rather than later’. Radio General celebrates fifty years Following a meeting, it was decided of requests this year and as part of the to end just before Christmas. celebrations we invited local high Kay Norris, the service’s Chairman profile and media guests to our studios said, ‘We have always been innovative. to recall their memories. For example, it was nearly ten years Our first guest was Eddie Hemmings ago we introduced a computer playout from Sky TV; Eddie presents the Boots system. We were asked to do this by and All show along with Sky's rugby the hospital to provide an alternative to league matches. He provided a very the background music in the various entertaining account of his career and public waiting areas. chose several pieces of music that hold Other innovations were a DOS particular memories for him. Tom MacPherson and Ian Finney on the based library system introduced in 1986 Grampian Hospital Radio stand and a freephone system on the wards LONDON TO Members of Grampian Hospital so that a patient could speak directly to Radio recently exhibited at a Volunteers the studio. BRIGHTON Fayre held in the Music Hall in The first OB was the Carol Service Aberdeen. Organised jointly by from the hospital chapel in 1968 Aberdeen Council of Voluntary followed a few days later by a midnight Organisations and Aberdeen Volunteer carol service from the town centre Centre, the event gave Voluntary and using landlines. Folkestone was added Community groups within the city the to the network for a few weeks until opportunity to let the general public two members were encouraged to know about volunteering opportunities break away and set up what became within their organisations. Radio Victoria. That closed in similar Throughout the day Grampian circumstances two years ago. Hospital Radio had many potential Kay went on to say that the GHBS volunteers visit their stand. This gave us had been an excellent training ground the opportunity to let individuals know with the volunteers going on to work about the benefits of hospital radio and for ILR and the BBC. the contribution that they could make to Terry Nunn commented, ‘I’ve further the aims of our station. always tried to instill a sense of timing At the end of the Fayre we had a when training people and what did number of people wishing to join they do at the end? The blighters presented me with a watch!’ Grampian Hospital radio and many Irwyn Davies interviews Quirina others who went away with a better Louwman, the daughter of the owner understanding of hospital radio and the of the Dutch Motor Museum where the work that we do car is based, on Genevieve at the ALMOST FORTY London to Brighton Veteran Car run. After 38 years, the Gateway HBS, which served Dover and Deal, has CAN YOU HELP? ceased to broadcast. Starting in July Have any fellow radio stations tried 1968, the service finally pulled the plug to have their music played to the nurses on December 22 2006. through their nurses station and also Dover once had two main hospitals through their out patients and other and two minor ones with beds departments as we are trying to see if numbering over 300. Sadly, Dover now Radio Calderdale can with permission has only one hospital, Buckland,and it of the Trust and if so has much did it has at the time of writing less than cost to set up? Please reply to Jeff twenty patients. (The Captain) Kirby. With PPL, PRS, insurance and other bills looming, Terry Nunn, the PRO Hospital Radio Stafford were 35 contacted the NHS Trust to ask what years old on 17th January and are the future was, the reply being , ‘My looking for ex members who have advice would be to wind down now. moved out of the area to get in touch. If The changing nature of the way the interested, contact the station manager Trust is managing its patients will Mike Harker on naturally lead to a reduction in the use The end of an era was marked at [email protected] of BHD. This will continue over the 10pm on December 22 when the next few months, as such your GHBS went out with a bang. COPY DATE FOR NEXT ISSUE audience will diminish further to the Fireworks lit up the sky over Dover. 16TH APRIL 2007 point that I am not sure the numbers The Coastguard had been warned!
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