November 2014 - ICRadio-Announce

Want more people to listen to your show?
by IC Radio 27 Nov '14

27 Nov '14

Hi everyone, Our excellent head of promotions wants to tell you how to... promote yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey everyone, I hope you’ve all settled into radio, I’ve been listening to a lot of new shows and there’s so much great stuff going on at ICRadio at the moment! Now that you know the ins and outs of hosting a show, it’s a great time to try and boost your listener count. There are loads of easy ways to do this and it’s my job to get as many people listening to you as possible. WEBSITE BANNERS As some of you may have noticed, we have a huge banner on the icradio.com<http://icradio.com> website where you can promote your show. All you need to do is produce a 900px wide, 300px tall image which advertises your show. The more eye-catching the better but be sure to keep the design sensible. Good things to include are the day and time of your show and maybe a brief description too, which can be included as a caption. Send me the image (as a .jpg or .png) and caption topublicity(a)icradio.com<mailto:publicity@icradio.com> and I’ll upload them as soon as possible. POSTERS Posters around campus are a great way of attracting new listeners though the Union has a few rules regarding what you can and can’t put on them. These can be found here (https://www.imperialcollegeunion.org/sites/default/files/Publicity%205%EF%8…) Basically, they need to display the both the Union’s and ICRadio’s logo and not have any bad language/anything controversial on them. As with the web banners, make sure to think about the design – I find the philosophy of less is more works best. If you need copies of the logos, send me an email. FRESHERS ON THE RADIO If you’re new to radio this year then we’d love to know how you’ve found starting your own show. We’re looking to include a few short articles in Felix, on our blog and on a new Union media page. It would be a sort of ‘day in the life’ of radio, drop me an email if you’re interested in writing something. Thanks! Matt Head of Publicity --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On sadder news it has come to my attention that someone has graffitied the new desk, already! This is not cool, there is now a security camera in the radio studio. Long live the croc! Eamonn

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Social Secretary and Rivendell Uploader
by Postlethwaite, Eamonn 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Hi guys, Firstly radio has got off to an absolutely amazing start this year! I've been listening to a lot of the shows and reading the feedback from the training sessions and would just like to extend an enormous thank you for everyone's hard work. Speaking of hardwork our IT-manager Padraic has fixed a bug that meant that m4as which were uploaded from home weren't appearing in RDLibrary, causing an understandable panic pre show. In short feel free to upload m4as, they should now transcode properly. Let either myself or technical(a)icradio.com know if you have anymore problems. Also email technical if you want to learn how to set iTunes to automatically save everything/convert everything to mp3s. Secondly WE NEED A SOCIAL SECRETARY. ?Do you like organising parties/meals and getting radio people to actually talk to each other outside of the basement? Then we want you! Sadly our previous elected social sec Khush left Imperial so we need a new one. If anyone who is interested could email me a short (under 200 words) manifesto by next Wednesday we can get the ball rolling Keep up the good work all Eamonn

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Re: [icradio] The Brand New Music Team
by IC Radio Music 23 Nov '14

23 Nov '14

Slight typo: the Music Mondays show is from 4 to 5pm on Mondays. Again, if anyone’s interested in joining the Music Team, you can meet us at the union on Monday 24th @ 6pm or drop me an email if you can’t make it. Cheers, Kartik On 21 Nov 2014, at 13:36, IC Radio Music <icrmusic(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:icrmusic@imperial.ac.uk>> wrote: Hi all, this is your friendly Head of Music speaking. My deputy, Chris (CC’d) and I are looking to set up a Music Team to help maintain the brand new Station Playlist. The only thing you need to be able to do is find new music. We have set up a show called Music Mondays (Mondays 3 - 4pm) for the music team to get together and showcase their songs. The songs that get played out during the show will go on to form the Station Playlist, which you’ll find is now up in a panel on RD Airplay and is there for anyone and everyone to use. So if you’re the type of person who’s constantly searching for new releases and you want to get involved with the Music Team and the Music Mondays show, then you can meet Chris and I at the Union on Monday 24th @6pm, and we’ll talk about our various plans and whatnot. Please do drop me an email (music(a)icradio.com<mailto:music@icradio.com>) if you can’t make it on Monday or have any questions, etc. Cheers, Kartik G _______________________________________________ ICRadio-Announce mailing list ICRadio-Announce(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:ICRadio-Announce@imperial.ac.uk> https://mailman.ic.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/icradio-announce

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The Brand New Music Team
by IC Radio Music 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi all, this is your friendly Head of Music speaking. My deputy, Chris (CC’d) and I are looking to set up a Music Team to help maintain the brand new Station Playlist. The only thing you need to be able to do is find new music. We have set up a show called Music Mondays (Mondays 3 - 4pm) for the music team to get together and showcase their songs. The songs that get played out during the show will go on to form the Station Playlist, which you’ll find is now up in a panel on RD Airplay and is there for anyone and everyone to use. So if you’re the type of person who’s constantly searching for new releases and you want to get involved with the Music Team and the Music Mondays show, then you can meet Chris and I at the Union on Monday 24th @6pm, and we’ll talk about our various plans and whatnot. Please do drop me an email (music(a)icradio.com<mailto:music@icradio.com>) if you can’t make it on Monday or have any questions, etc. Cheers, Kartik G

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Training feedback please!
by George Butcher 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi, If you came to the MEGA training session, I hope you found it helpful. Here's a link to some of the material we looked at. If you've had *any kind of training,* it would be *fantastic *if you could fill out this very short survey please <http://tiny.cc/icrsurvey>- it'd be very helpful for us to improve the sessions! If you want anyone to sit in on your shows as you start please email programming(a)icradio.com and we'll arrange for something! Thank you George Deputy Manager

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Training workshop - 12:30 wednesday
by George Butcher 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi! A reminder that tomorrow from 12:30 we are running our MEGA TRAINING WORKSHOP We'll be helping you all improve your show and learn how to get better without just sitting on your own wondering why no one wants to listen..... Including: 1) How to structure a show 2) DJing for radio 3) How to make people listen to your show 4) Advanced/revision Studer and Rivendell Come along - you don't need to come for all if you can't. We will re run it another day for those who can't do Wednesdays. See you then! George Deputy Manager

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MEGA TRAINING
by Postlethwaite, Eamonn 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

Hi again, Something very exciting is happening that I thought deserved its own email... from the Head of Training and Deputy Station Manager themselves! Hello! Now you know the basics of putting a show together, it's time for a MEGA training event - where we look more at what to put in a show and build your content. We're going to run a few talks/discussions/workshops on Wednesday the 19th November at 12:30 in the media centre. 'Show clocks - how to put a show together' with Keir Little and Padraic Calpin 'DJ mixing for radio' - Kartik Gohil 'How to make people want to listen to your show' - George Butcher 'Rivendell and Studer, getting the best out of them' - Ethan Haley Questions you may have: I haven't done basic training yet - can I do this? Yes How long will it last? About an hour Is it free? Yes (but don't forget to buy membership!) I can't make Wednesday - will yo do it another day of the week? Yes, but the date is to be decided. All the best, George and Ethan Dep Manager Head of Training? Also we're all going to go for drinks in the union afterwards, just to chill and maybe even talk about things not radio related. Finally from me tonight, Michael wants to let you all know if you want someone to sit in on your shows for your first couple, or if you want to watch some old-hands in action, just get in touch with him at programming(a)icradio.com, and also here is the most up to date schedule: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/102L7jnZ36SrvMatJTwWii-SwEIiQaITq6Ih… Eamonn

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Drinks and Jingles
by Postlethwaite, Eamonn 13 Nov '14

13 Nov '14

GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY, ICRadio are holding a jingles competition to try and update our very very very old selection of jingles now we have this lovely new studio that even records. Michael has set up a form here for ideas https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YLzEeTL9A-N054T-xhYuOGN0tJr4fxN3phmPy4CiV7… [https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/forms/social/social-forms.png]<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YLzEeTL9A-N054T-xhYuOGN0tJr4fxN3phmPy4CiV7…> IC Radio Jingle Extravaganza Now that our studio is nice and shiny, we need so new jingles to go with it! Let us know your great ideas and the best will be recorded and played on air! Read more...<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YLzEeTL9A-N054T-xhYuOGN0tJr4fxN3phmPy4CiV7…> Anyone is of course free to record jingles for their own shows, but the best of these may replace the automatic playout jingles -- basically you'll be on ICRadio everyday ;) In more (or perhaps less) sober news, it has come to my attention that people are drinking in the studio -- not okay. More to the point if you break our lovely new £8,000 desk, guess who is paying for it? (Hint: you.) We're going to put up a drinks shelf in the waiting room, I don't want to be a killjoy, but please just nip outside to drink. Radio love Eamon?n PS This first full week on air has been amazing! Keep it up!

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Tuesday is the day
by Postlethwaite, Eamonn 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Hi guys, One final push, tomorrow after lectures anyone interested in producing and recording or the technical side in general (or indeed, just anyone with a little free time to donate to the cause), come to the basement so it can become *Darth Vader voice* fully operational! Or in the words of our Assistant Station Manager Radio is working - but there's still lots to do to the rest of the basement. Want to record live music? Want to access our MEGA vinyl collection? Or just curious as to how you can help finish off the redev? Then come down to the basement from 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon any time till late and help us finish the space off :) Radio love Eamonn

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