[cma-l] Community Radio: Localised Overnight Sustaining Service

[KIC FM]

This may be of interest to some of you. Certainly is to us.
 
 
 
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Subject:  Community Radio: Localised Overnight Sustaining Service... 
Date:  Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:10:15 +0100 
From:  Jon Richardsdon <jon at overnightexpress.co.uk> 
To:  mailing at overnightexpress.co.uk 




Hi,

I am writing to tell you about a new service that we are intending to 
launch for Community Radio stations in the UK. We have already 
implemented this on a small scale for a particular station, but talking 
to other Community Radio stations we feel it may be of wider interest so 
we are keen to understand the level of interest.

The concept is simple - a fully managed overnight sustaining service 
playing your music format with your station imaging but with our 
voice-tracked presenter. All presenter links would be heavily localised 
and focused upon the TSA, events, news, info etc. This isn't a typical 
network sustaining service - it is *your* overnight service.

How it works:
We provide you with a playout PC that we manage. It requires is a 
broadband connection for us to manage it with, and has balanced audio 
outputs. The service starts when you want it to, playing your music 
format to your clocks with promos/commercials/features as required. The 
presenter links are played in with references to the music, other 
presenters/shows and as much local information as possible. The service 
will then continue until your presenter led programming takes over in 
the morning. Options exist to take an external news service, and of 
course local weather inserts.

At this point we are seeking an expression of interest from Community 
Radio stations by email with (of course) no commitment. This will allow 
us to gauge demand
more accurately and scale our roll-out accordingly.

If this is of interest then I would be grateful if you could get in 
touch by email, otherwise thank you for your time. Our website and other 
points of contact will be coming very soon.

Kind regards,
Jon Richardson