Radio Teesdale on the Telly tonight (Friday)
ITV reporter Ben Chapman has spent the week in Teesdale filming features for the 6pm ITV news. The focus has been on how we have coped with the bad weather. Ben filmed our Breakfast Show this morning, the Lunch Show as well as talking to Ken Cook, our weatherman, and Station Manager, Peter Dixon. There are some photos on our photo gallery.
Ben will be live in the studio tonight (ITV 6pm) talking about his week in the studio and will show the film recorded at our studios.
We also understand that the TV show that was partly filmed last year in our studios “Put your money where your mouth is” will be aired on prime time TV in the near future. More details as we get them.
Snow, Snow, Snow and even more snow!!!
Well done to all our presenters and other members who have battled through the snow to create programmes during the bad weather. The Breakfast Show in particular has been widely praised throughout Teesdale for the information that we have been able to pass to the community. Several schools have told the parents of their pupils to listen to Radio Teesdale rather than ring the school for news of closures.
Tweet, Tweet & Twitter
Radio Teesdale is registered on Twitter and we publish at least 3 or 4 (up to about a dozen) tweets a day. We are finding it a great way to post information about things going on at the station. All tweets appear on the home page of our web site for a period. You can see the history of tweets on our twitter page http://twitter.com/radioteesdale
It is the quickest (apart from calling into the office!) ways of finding out the current news and gossip.
Top 100 Listen Again Features
We have published a list of the top 100 Listen Again items from 2009. It’s a very interesting cross section of the interviews and features that we did last year.
http://www.radioteesdale.co.uk/listenagain.html
A New Season Starts on Monday
We are starting a new season on Monday which will run until the 18 April. Ron Walker with Juke Box Record Hop and Dixon J Scott with Teesdale Country are resting both of their programmes for this season. Well done to both of them for great programmes, and we look forward to hearing them back on Radio Teesdale in the near future.
Best of luck to Ewan Allinson with “As the Crow Flys” which has moved to the new live spot of 8pm on Thursday evening. We also extend a warm welcome back to Ray Oxley with his popular Comedy Hour and a new Chart Show, which features the music chart from a given week in the past.
If you are thinking about a new show for the next season, now is the time to start planning. We can always record pilots at any time. Often it can take several weeks/months to finalise a format before a programme proposal is settled and agreed up. For reference, seasons for the remainder of the year are:
Spring 19 April to 18 July 2010
Summer 19 July to 17 October 2010
Autumn 18 October 2010 to 16 January 2011
The full Spring schedule will be on our web site later this afternoon.
North East Radio Station of the Year
In case you were not already aware……Radio Teesdale has become the North East Station of the Year in the Radio Academy Nations & Regions Awards 2009. This qualifies Radio Teesdale for the 2010 Sony Radio Academy Awards Station of the Year which is held around May of next year. We have had an enormous amount of feedback and congratulatory notes from listeners and people in the Teesdale community and UK radio community. Helen Goodman, our local MP, was kind enough to write to us and say,
“I am delighted that Radio Teesdale has been selected as the North East Station of the Year in the Radio Academy Nations & Regions Awards 2009. I would like to pass on my congratulations to you and your hardworking members. You programmes provide a valuable resource of information and companionship to local residents and it is clear that the award recognises Radio Teesdale's commitment to the needs of the local community.”
