1.
Community radio

2.
What is Community Radio?
Key principals of Community
Radio
Examples
Participation
Live radio for community radio
Discussion Questions

3.
 Small scale radio stations
 Owned and controlled by the communities
they serve
 Geographically defined neighbourhood OR
 Community of interest (or both)
 Not for profit
 Staffed by volunteers
 Access and training for programme
makers in target community
 Over 200 stations-new job sector!

4.
Training and Community
Outreach are central to
community radio station
management
real participation must be
reflected in programmes
and station structures

5.
 Station aims and POLICY
 Regular Training Programmes
 Community outreach and
partnerships
 Audience Research
 Feeds into programme making
 Feeds into programme schedule

6.
 Think about Sunderland target audiences
first
 Get young people on the programme
 Get out into Sunderland
 Work with existing contacts
 Build on them over a longer period of
time
 What extra/different skills do you need?
 Not just vox pops...

7.
 Most established CR station in Uk, licenced 2002
 8-10 staff
 General training for volunteers
 Project based programmes
 Community Reporters’ training scheme
 Various projects leading to on air material and
podcasts-eg Climate Change Project
 Look at Schedules
 www.bcbradio.co.uk

8.
Based in Totnes, licenced 2007
2 part time workers
Community based and art radio
Very small scale
Projects with schools and
community

9.
 Ruralstation serving villages where main
industry is farming and tourism, licenced
2006
1 full-time station manager plus operation
team and volunteers
 Programmes made by school kids and young
offenders
 RadioSkills Course Run in association with
Bishop Auckland College

10.
 community station for 35 years
 Policy of representing all minorities
in one radio station
 http://www.3cr.org.au/

11.
Content
The way you make them
Involving people-as producer
and trainer
Working together v individual
egos
Issues of professionalism
First steps...

12.
 Community Media Association web site and
discussion list