South Branch
The chair of the South Branch is Sean Street.
If you would like more information on the Branch, please contact Heather.
Chair of the South Branch, Sean Street with John Baish at a recent South Branch event.
Up-coming Events
Radio Academy South Branch - Nations and Regions Awards Evening, With Special Guest!
Tuesday 1 December, 6.30pm - 9.00pm, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB.
An Evening With Tony Stoller
Professor Sean Street interviews Tony Stoller, the UK's eminent radio regulator about his newly published book - 'Sounds of your life: The rise and fall of Independent Radio'. Tony was Chief Executive of the Radio Authority and also undertook key management roles within the IBA and Ofcom. His new book is the definitive account of the history and development of UK commercial radio.
Tickets cost £5 to include a glass of wine and mince pie and book discount voucher.
Come along and meet radio practitioners, students and academics from across the South of England and build your network!
Enquiries to:
Radio Academy South branch committee
Recent Events
FREE EVENT supported by Radio Academy South Branch
Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th April 2009, 7pm-10pm
Discover the secrets behind how high-level productions and Sony award winning programmes have been made using SADiE, along with a host of tips, processes and methods for making top productions.
The new owners of the SADiE digital audio workstation, Prism Sound, are coming to Bournemouth University on 29th & 30th April as part of their UK-wide Roadshow. Primarily this will be an opportunity to meet with members of the Prism and SADiE teams as well as hear talks by the leading practitioners in the industry.
SADiE is the craft editor of choice with the BBC, and integrates with their radio automation system VCS for Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and the World Service. Peregrine Andrews, freelance BBC SADiE editor, will be presenting along with Pete Nash, long standing BBC producer and SADiE expert.
They will be showing many of SADiE's power tools for radio feature, drama and drama-documentary production, as well as radio package making and what integration with the playout server means.
There will also be plenty of opportunity to talk with Peregrine and Pete about careers and opportunities SADiE knowledge can bring with the new BBC and independent radio production sector.
Book your place now! Email: Jo Tyler
Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th April 2009, 7pm-10pm
Refreshments provided
Location:
Allesbrook Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth University,
Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB
For further information visit:
South Branch: Nations and Regions Evening
2nd Dec 08 - Bournemouth Uni
Join radio professionals, students and academics from across the South of England for the Radio Academy South Branch Annual Nations & Regions Awards Evening, featuring a top guest speaker from the industry. Chaired by acclaimed BBC Broadcaster and the UK's First Professor of Radio, Sean Street, who'll be in conversation with one of commercial radio's top programmers and prolific figures, John Baish.
John is Managing Director of Global Radio's Dorset station, 2CR FM. He started as a journalist and music presenter on student radio at Exeter University before getting his first professional job at Radio 210 in Berkshire. He moved to Classic FM soon after it launched, initially as a producer and then leading the International Programming team in Holland, Finland and New York. Following a spell as a news editor at the Press Association, he was Programme Director at Jazz FM for six years, guiding the London station to its peak audience figures with the unique "smooth jazz and soul" format. He ran the Classic Gold network for UBC Media prior to its merger with Capital Gold in 2007. He was MD at the classic hits station when Tony Blackburn transgressed over Cliff Richard, propelling all three of them to the front page of every national newspaper in Britain. John was named Commercial Radio Programmer of the Year in 2000. He is a Fellow and Trustee of the Radio Academy, and is part of the organising committee for the 2009 Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Whether you're working in the radio industry or looking to get into the business, come and join us and find out what John has to say about the state of today's radio industry and how it is responding to the key issues of convergence and multi-platform technology; music programming and the threat of the MP3 player; radio as a brand; how to hire and nurture top radio talent; and how to get a radio job in today's environment. Followed by Q & A with John & Sean.
The evening will culminate with Sean Street presenting the Radio Academy Nations & Regions Award to the best small station in the South (TSA 300,000 or less).
South Branch Nations and Regions Awards
5th Dec 07 - Solent Conference Centre, Southampton Solent University
Guest Speaker: critically acclaimed broadcaster and academic, Professor Sean Street.
Sean will discuss his work in preserving and digitising commercial radio’s archive and play clips of material from programmes.
Sean’s presentation is followed by the Nations and Regions Station under 300,000 TSA award. The three nominated stations are Isle of Wight Radio, Spire FM and 107.6 The Fire.
With thanks to Southampton Solent University and the Centre for Broadcasting History Research, Bournemouth University, for sponsoring this event.
The ILR archives
Radio's present and future is turbulent, exciting and challenging; rightly, it occupies the conversations and thoughts of most of us working in the industry. But what of it's past? In particular, the short history of UK Commercial Radio is in danger of being lost. Sean Street, a radio broadcaster himself, both in the BBC and Commercial sectors, Professor of Radio and Director of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research in the Media School at Bournemouth University, has been working for a decade to save, preserve, digitize and re-activate commercial radio's lost archives. On 12 December, at the Radio Centre, Sean will launch the first of these as an online educational resource - The ILR Programme Sharing Scheme, Felicity Wells Archive. On December 5th, as we celebrate the achievements of today's stations in the South, Sean previews this major event and will talk about major on-going projects to preserve Commercial UK Radio's past
Evening concludes with social and business networking.
Sean Street speaks to Trevor Dann
13th June 07 - Allsebrook Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth Uni
Trevor Dann is a producer, presenter and radio consultant. He is remembered by many as one of the key people who repositioned Radio 1 in the mid-1990s, and prior to that, for being a key part of the programme management team with Matthew Bannister at GLR. He is now Director of the industry’s professional body, dedicated to the encouragement, recognition and promotion of excellence in UK broadcasting and audio production.
Come and hear Trevor’s view on the state of today’s radio industry and the issues affecting its future, both for the BBC and Commercial Radio. Hear how the industry is shaping up the meet the new on-demand generation and find out what sort of skills and employees the industry is looking for.
This high-profile event is for anyone working in the radio industry – presenters, producers and managers as well as media students, hospital radio volunteers and anyone looking to get a career in radio.
