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Wednesday 21st March | 6pm for 6.30 | The Gibson Building, 29-35 Rathbone Street, London, W1T 1NJ

How to win, lose or draw listeners…..
Hours builders? Quick giveaways? Prizes? Callers or no callers? What’s the best way to be creative on the radio with competitions, promotions and giveaways…?

Capital FM’s Roberto will be joined by a panel of creative radio pros including Clare Baker (Marketing Director, Absolute Radio), Stacey Pratt (Head of Branded Content, Mediacom), Steve Taylor (Creative Commerical Director, Bauer Media) and Dave Vitty (Director of Comedy on The Chris Moyles Show, BBC).

Come and get creative with The Radio Academy as we put competitions, promotions and creativity under the microscope. We’ll look at how commercial radio stations are thinking about new and innovative ways of running branded content and station promotions that keeps the sponsor happy, as well as the listener, and how the BBC would do it. Plus, some practical ways of how best to be creative with those bits that aren’t links, music or adverts!

Click here for more information and to access the audio from this event.

This week’s London branch event was hosted by BBC 6 music’s Nemone Metaxas, who spoke to Adrian Van Klaveren (BBC 5 live), Steve Ackerman (Somethin’ Else Productions), Mike Hanson (BBC 6 Music) and Jo Meek (Wise Buddah Productions) and asked what they thought about the opportunities for BBC Producers and independent production companies that the new media city in Salford will have to offer.

Audio from the evening is now available on our website.

Congratulations to the team from Radio Verulam, the community station based in St Albans, who won last night’s Radio Academy Christmas Quiz.

The full list of results is as follows:

1 Sultans Of Sin – 142
2 Izzy Whizzy Let’s Get Busy – 140.5
3 URY Gold – 138
4 Media UK – 134
5= Radio Wanno – 115
5= Resonance FM’s Desperate Networkers – 115
7 BBC 6 Music – 112
8 Galaxy goes back to being known just as a chocolate bar – 110
9 Big Auditing Dynamite (MGR) – 108.5
10 Heart Attack – 106.5
11 Phil Smith’s IncrediBalls – 105
12 City’s The Young and the Restless – 104
13 Force for Good – 96.5
14 If we don’t win, we’ll take your licences away – 96
15 Give Us A Job – 90
16 Have You Tried Turning It Off And Turning It On Again? – 88.5
17 Christmas Muppets – 87
18 Jeremy Hunt Culture Secretary – 83
19 Keep It Brief – 79
20 Franglais – 56.5
21 Panda Watch – 49.5

Tuesday 14th December 2010 | The Junction, 2a Corsica Street, Highbury, London, N5 1JJ | Doors: 6.30pm | Quiz: 7.30pm

It’s that time of year again – Oh yes it is …

The Radio Academy Christmas Quiz is back.

BBC Radio 2 were our summer sensations – but who will be the winter wizards and walk away with the honours?

Tickets always sell out quickly – so reserve a spot for your team NOW.

There’ll also be some fab raffle prizes to win on the night.

Quiz questions kindly provided by RadioToday.

To register

Entry: £5 per person.

Teams: Maximum 5 people per team.

To register: Click here to register your team.