Hi all,

FIRST OFF – make sure you come to our Christmas Dinner tomorrow evening (heading to Brick Lane... leaving from the station at 6pm! then out somewhere afterwards)!

SECOND OFF – make sure you attend the Radio Workshop on Wednesday (some BIG people in radio are visiting IC Radio at 2pm... MAKE SURE you’re there (shared studio, labelled the ‘Aquarium’) if you’re interested in maybe becoming a radio professional later on)!

Next, the less interesting but important stuff – if you have a show please read this carefully or you’ll end up with your shows not being scheduled or recorded.

Basically...

You need a Members Area account for icradio.com/members – anyone who has bought IC Radio Membership can get one.  If you don’t have one or don’t know the details, send me an email and I’ll help set you up.

You need to use your Members Area account to submit playlists.  We’re obliged to submit our playlists to all sorts of places, I’m not even sure where, but we get into trouble if we don’t.  Please submit all playlists using the Show Playlists module within 48 hours of your show ending – this applies to all shows that play any kind of music.  Please don’t email your playlists to Lia at the headofmusic address.  Fail to comply and, well, there are posters all around the station that tell you what will happen...  Ignore the ones about fat cats getting tortured, pay attention to the ones about you becoming “spoken word douche” :P

Please opt out of shows you can’t make in advance – it’s pointless us keeping recordings of sustain so use the Show Opt Out module before your show starts to cancel the recording.  If you don’t manage to do this, please send me an email to let me know and I’ll delete the recordings.

It will soon be your responsibility to schedule your show, not Andy’s to copy it over week to week!  If you have a show, I’ll be in touch you soon to assign you a ‘slot’, which you will need to log in and use the Show Request module to schedule shows with each week.  This means that we don’t end up scheduling shows you can’t make, and means that you can schedule your own shows without needing to get in touch with us in a panic 5 minutes before you’re due to go on air!  A few shows already have this setup – if Show Request shows up nothing for you, I’ll be in touch with details soon.

It will soon be possible for you to schedule your own shows, whenever the studio is free – if you see the studio is free during the day and there is no slot set up for that time, you’ll be able to schedule your own one-off show and go on air straightaway without needing to ask one of us for a show.  Keep an eye out for new options in the Show Request module, which should appear sometime before Christmas ready for next term.

If you have any problems with any of this or anything else technical at radio, please drop me an email.

Cheers, have a good one and I look forward to seeing all 226 of you on Brick Lane tomorrow!

Chris Birkett

Technical Manager

IC Radio