Hello and welcome back to Radio! I hope you all had a fun yet productive summer and you're all excited to start the new year. This email will be relatively long, but do bear with me as there is a lot of information in here that I am sure you will find useful. Firstly a massive thank you to everybody that helped out on Tuesday - we ended up getting over 80 emails despite being hidden away in UCH. Hopefully we'll have even more fresher's coming along to Beer and Biscuits on THURSDAY 15th at 7PM in RSM. It would still be great to see all of you there, if not just for the free beer, biscuits AND pizza, but also to chat to the fresher's to get them excited about doing radio! PROGRAMMES If you are planning on doing (or starting!) another show this year then you MUST request it, and quickly. To do so then please email Rob, our head of programming (programming@icradio.com) and you should get a show slot that's good for you. Remember that of course, in order to do a show you must have membership, so if you haven't already, please do buy it (https://goo.gl/Hj7BCQ)! TALK FROM GARETH MITCHELL - 29/10/15 For those of you that haven't already heard, on the 29th of October, the BBC Click Radio presenter, Gareth Mitchell will be giving us a talk. After the lecture we'll all be heading to the union as a society which I'm sure will have plenty of radio-based, and non-radio chat involved. It should prove to be an insightful and fun evening, so please do come along! SOCIAL MEDIA This year we are really pushing to get our social media presence noticed - it draws more listeners to the station, which means more people hearing the words you say and the music you play! If you haven't already then please do "like" us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/icradio) and follow us on Twitter (twitter.com/IC_Radio). When you're doing your show, do promote it on any platform you like! You should have access to both of the above accounts, so feel free to say that you're on air, what you're doing etc etc - just one post on Facebook creates an extra 1000 potential listeners (just don't say anything too contreversial). A more active social media presence also means that people are more likely to notice us and listen - which is beneficial to everybody! One last thing; the studio has been nominated for an SRA! This is great news, and means that soon you may be producing/presenting a show from an award winning studio. Congratulations to everybody that was involved with the development of the new studio. If you have any questions for me, then email me at secretary@icradio.com and I'll try to get back to you within a few days. See you all on Thursday, and Long Live the Croc! Radio secretary love, Josh ICRadio Secretary 15/16