November 2012 - ICRadio-Announce

IC Radio's Technical Triumph
by Letts, Joseph 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi Radiophiles, I know you have had to suffer of the past week or so with technical difficulties but have no fear, the end is here. I have made the following changes: - Recording enabled (starts a minute before your show and ends a minute after the end) - Dashboard fixed & updated (now you can see the messages people send from the website) - Website fixed (hopefully complete, please do email me if it goes down) I hope you have a Happy Monday! Joe Letts IC Radio Technical Manager

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Training Sessions
by Franke, Christian 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Dear all, As per usual, I'll be doing a training session on Wednesday at 2pm. We'll be meeting by the entrance of the beit quad, opposite the security lodge. RSVP if you're intending on coming. Cheers, Chris

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Microphones have been switched around!
by Hayes, Aislinn 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hi all! In case you didn't see the update on the IC Radio Facebook page, while we were replacing the microphone stand in the studio, we also switched around the orientation so that the left slider now corresponds to the left mike, and vice versa. No more reaching across your co-host to turn up your volume, which we hope will lead to a lot less awkward accidental touching and airtime battles... So, just to reiterate, if you notice anything broken/functioning less than 100% please let us know so that we can sort it out. Nerd that I am, I actually did enjoy utilising my engineering skills over the weekend - so any issues and we're happy to help! :) Lots of love from your friendly neighbourhood station manager, Aislinn Station Manager @ IC Radio 2011-13

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Sustain music update & station maintenance
by Hayes, Aislinn 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hey everyone! Your radio-loving committee met up today, so we're updating you guys on a few bits and pieces... Music update and maintenance on Saturday We'll be heading down to the studio tomorrow (or rather, today) from about 2pm for a bit of studio TLC to the sounds of TLC. If you have any suggestions for artists/genres you'd like added to the music library, let me know or even pop on down and stick your head in. We'll be checking up on the microphones and headphones and a general tidy up too, probably ordering a pizza, abusing cheap union drinks, etc... Website and recording While, unfortunately, show recording is still down, our very hard-working technical team has managed to get the website and members area back online by hosting the database on the computer in the front of the office, so "don't turn it off or run Military Grade missile detection systems on it or things of a similar nature." Wise words there from Technical Manager Joe. A few small rules to be aware of... To keep the station running at its best, we all have to do our part to look after it and keep it as bangin' as the Croc intended it to be. If you break something, please don't try to hide it or ignore it - just email us or let us know, you won't get in trouble, we do have a budget to take care of accidents but we can't fix anything unless we know about it! FYI for the moment, try not to kick the server underneath the desk in the interview room - it's there until we can hire some professional help to get it up and running again for show recordings. RBS ESSA Youtube Competition Basically, if we make a good YouTube video about our society and get enough hits on it, we can win lots of money from the RBS group-sponsored scheme for enterprising student societies. If you have any ideas or want to get involved in the making of this video (about one to two minutes long) let me know, otherwise next term we'll be knocking around with a camera filming things and spamming the video all over the place. Free Advertising with ICU Cinema ICU Cinema want entertaining! If you'd like to contribute any sets, of perhaps about 10-20 minutes in length, email me for the deets/advice about recording at manager(a)icradio.com! Stuff we want to buy The station is planning on investing in some new speakers for events so that our disco hire kit will be fully equipped to rent out. Pass us on to any friends/events you know that want to hire equipment! We're also sniffing around the idea of investing in a new Mac to install in the studio office specifically for audio editing and jingle creating (and Facebooking etc obviously). We're also still hunting for a decent new drum kit to invest in (with Jazz & Rock), so if you have any knowledge/know of any deals, hit us up! More promotions! Send our Head of Promotions your posters and show descriptions if you'd like some free advertising - we're going to be creating another issue of The Snap so if you have any content like music reviews or features that you'd like to donate, please do! Pre-Christmas social! We will be meeting up for a last hurrah before the end of term, but it won't be anything too fancy as I think we're all nearly at the end of our loans at this stage. We'll let you know the details in the next week or so, but expect a cheap and fun excursion to the pub in the very near future! Membership Anyone who buys membership gets put on the key list, so if you want access buy yours now here! https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/shop/club-society-project-products/rad…. Love from your friendly neighbourhood station manager, Aislinn Station Manager @ IC Radio 2011-13

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Training
by Franke, Christian 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

Dear all, I'm doing a training session on Wednesday at 2pm, we'll be meeting by the entrance of the beit quad opposite the security lodge. If you're intending on coming please let me know. Thanks Chris

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IC Radio Technical Mayhem
by Letts, Joseph 18 Nov '12

18 Nov '12

Hi Radio Junkies, Unfortunately one of our servers has become rather uncooperative, which means the icradio.com website and members area are not available. The live radio feed can still be found on our temporary icradio.com site. However recordings will not take place in the short term. Please email programming(a)icradio.com when you would like to request a show, and send a playlist to technical(a)icradio.com after it takes place ( subject: [Show Name] – [Date] – Playlist ). I hope this will be fixed within the week. Best wishes, Joseph Letts IC Radio Technical Manager

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Jingles session re-scheduled
by McAdam, Ronan 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hello again everyone, Due to a show starting up again next Monday lunchtime, the jingles session will be held IN THE STUDIO on TUESDAY 20th at 13.00. Apologies for any inconvenience caused but remember: do get in contact with me if you wish to record a jingle at time which suits you :) Peace, Ronan McAdam Assistant Station Manager

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Jingles Session
by McAdam, Ronan 13 Nov '12

13 Nov '12

Hello people of the radio! By now, those of you new to ICRadio will have hopefully been running shows for a couple of weeks; I do hope the inevitable nerves of the first show are long behind you! In order for you to spice up your show (motivated by the hope of winning even more awards at next years SRAs), we will be running jingles sessions during which you can: * Record your own jingles * Upload them onto the touch-screen under your own show name * Hopefully improve some of the general ICRadio jingles So, to give you time to get ideas together, the first jingle session will be held at 12.15 on Monday 19th November in the Studio. Feel free to bring your I-pods, pre-recorded thingys on USBs and scripts. Do not worry if you cannot make this!! We cannot get too many people in the studio at the same time anyway so email me when you want to record jingles (perhaps just before your show?) and I will be willing to help everyone individually. See you then radio peeps :) Ronan McAdam, Assistant Station Manager

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Your IC Radio news and opportunities
by Hayes, Aislinn 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Hey everyone! Hope you're enjoying your first term back at uni and back at IC Radio! We have a few bits and pieces of news to update you on... Success at the Student Radio Awards! Recent IC Radio alumnus Jen Whyntie won us Bronze for Best Speech Programming, and, most impressively, the Kevin Greening Award for Creativity at last week's SRA ceremony at the o2. That's out of all the entries for all the student radio stations across the UK!! We'll be publicising the bejaysus out of this when she gets feedback from the judges, so keep an eye out for the ICR Croc popping up over the next few weeks! In the meantime, it's never too early to think about entering next year's awards and keeping up our winning streak... See the attached how-to guide for tips! :) Speaking of success, we also hosted the National Student Chart Show last Sunday and it was very capably done by Happy Michael. Congrats Michael! If anyone else would like to give it a go, email me ASAP. Jingle all the way (I'm cringing as I type...) Today we recorded a promotional jingle for a TeachFirst event on Wednesday - it's up on the touchscreen in the studio, so anyone who has a show tomorrow or Wednesday please play out the TeachFirst jingle! It's 40 seconds long and, in my expert opinion, extremely professional thanks to our representative's smooth script. Also, our Assistant Manager Ronan will be in touch over the next few days about organising jingle sessions for anyone looking for a personal touch to their show! Free Advertising with ICU Cinema If anyone has been to ICU Cinema lately, they may have noticed a small IC Radio segment from yours truly and my co-host Craig before the films. Cinema have had a very positive reaction to it and eager for more! If you'd like to contribute any sets, of perhaps about 10-20 minutes in length, email me for the deets and advice about recording at manager(a)icradio.com! Free flights to Belfast! To be won on IC Radio - listen in all this week to answer 4 easy questions and win return flights to Belfast from Gatwick. First question on Best Foot Forward Tuesday at 8pm. Next on Matt Colvin's the Sound of Success on Wednesday at 6pm. Then on Friday at 8pm with Mad Craic. The final question will be on The Happy Hour Sunday at 5pm. No food or drink in the studio! Hate to be a nag, but we're still paying off the invoice from the Great Coke Spill of 2011, so please please please do not drink anywhere near ALICE! As for food, make sure you clean up after yourself - last thing we need is for the media corridor to be visited by some furry Stuart Littles... Mailing lists I realise a lot of people are getting various emails about training and jingles and promotions etc, so we might try and re-organise our various mailing lists to reduce the spam by next term! To be added to a presenters-specific mailing list, send an email to yours truly! Email Seth, our Production Manager, at production(a)icradio.com<mailto:production@icradio.com> to be added to the producers mailing list for info about recording and sessions. All you music lovers, please get in contact with Erwan at music(a)icradio.com<mailto:music@icradio.com> to be added to the music mailing list for all the goods. If you want to find out more from the technical side email our Technical Manager, Joe, at technical(a)icradio.com<mailto:technical@icradio.com> to be put on the technical mailing list. Membership & Sponsorship We're one member away from full membership, so we're almost ready to get spending our grant on fun toys for you radio lovers! https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/shop/club-society-project-products/rad…. Incidentally, we have big purchasing plans this year, so if you hear of any opportunities for sponsorship for IC Radio, let us know! Phew. Thanks for reading, or at least, thanks for skimming! :) Love from your friendly neighbourhood station manager, Aislinn Station Manager @ IC Radio 2011-13

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Training
by Franke, Christian 12 Nov '12

12 Nov '12

Dear all, Once again, I'm doing a training session on Wednesday at 2pm. We'll be meeting by the beit entrance, opposite the security lodge. Cheers, Chris

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