Hello everyone!

Head of Programming here. You all know about the new “Schedule your own slot” system at IC Radio and it’s been working brilliantly apart from a few minor teething problems. So I would quickly like to address them here.

It is very difficult to decide whether a “free hour” on the schedule on the website (www.icradio.com/schedule.php) is indeed “free”. This is because it may be someone’s allocated slot. People schedule their shows in different ways and sometimes leave the scheduling until the last few minutes before their show by which time somebody else has snapped up the free slot. This was an unforeseen problem in this system. So what I am proposing is:

1. YOU MUST SCHEDULE YOUR SHOW AT LEAST 2 DAYS BEFORE YOUR ALLOCATED TIME!

2. IF YOU DO NOT SCHEDULE YOUR SHOW, YOU RISK NOT BEING ABLE TO DO YOUR SHOW THAT WEEK. You won’t lose your slot, just that week’s show.

3. IF YOU SEE AN EMPTY SLOT 2 DAYS AHEAD DO NOT ASSUME IT IS FREE. If you want to do a show in an empty slot, email me a day ahead, do not try and schedule it in yourself. I will then email the people who’s slot you will be taking for that week and see if it’s OK. If I hear nothing back by the morning of the day that slot is, then it’s yours for that week only.

If there are any questions/ideas/better ways of running this then please email me.

Cheers,

Andy Roast