[cma-l] Sheffield Live! 93.2FM Winter Garden outside broadcast

[Alan Fransman]

SHEFFIELD LIVE! 93.2 FM

NEWS RELEASE

28 April 2009

Sheffield Live! 93.2FM Winter Garden outside broadcast

Sheffield Live! gets in amongst the public this week in a special
outside broadcast from Sheffield's award winning Winter Garden.

The station's flagship programme, 'Communities Live!' will hit the
airwaves every weekday between 12 and 1pm from an open-air studio in the
Winter Garden, to support Sheffield Live's Spring Fundraising appeal.

This is a fantastic opportunity to see Sheffield's newest radio station
in action, as volunteers from the local community put their radio
training into practice, in full view of the public.  It's also a chance
to find out more about Sheffield Live! and how you can get involved.

Look out for interviews with local councillors, movers and shakers from
Sheffield's community and voluntary sector, snooker celebrities and
performances from local musicians.

Monday's programme featured Sangita Basudev - Chief Executive of
Sheffield Live! 93.2FM, Lee Adams - Deputy Chief Executive of Sheffield
City Council, Cllr Sylvia Dunkley – Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure
and Streetscene and Sheffield's premier Latin American band, ‘Son Para
Todos.’

Tuesday's programme will feature Cllr Bob McCann - Cabinet Member for
housing and sustainable, safer communities,  Colin Humphries - World
Snooker Referee, a performance from local band 'Pink Sharabang', Kate
Hewitt - Head of Programming at Sheffield's top music venue The Harley 
Hotel and Dan Clayton, frontman of Indie band 'The Yell.'

Coming up in the rest of the week are Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed - Cabinet
Member for Climate Change and Local Environment, Noel Sharkey -
Professor of Robotics at the University of Sheffield and presenter of
Sheffield Live's 'Sound of Science' and Cllr Sylvia Anginotti - Cabinet
Member for Employment and Enterprise.

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For further information and images please contact Alan Fransman on 0114
281 4082 or email alan at sheffieldlive.org

Listen back to Monday's edition of Communities Live! on this link:
http://www.canstream.co.uk/sheffieldlive/index.php?id=15664

Visit the Communities Live! OB event on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1548399320#/event.php?eid=77881740764

Notes to editors
1. Sheffield Live! 93.2FM is a dynamic, positive and outward
looking urban community radio service celebrating the diversity of
Sheffield's inner city.  The station launched on 29th October 2007 and
provides an eclectic mix of original programming by local people of all
ages, backgrounds and abilities. The station is on air 24 hours a day,
with a potential audience of around 300,000 people in urban Sheffield
and parts of Rotherham.  For more information visit www.sheffieldlive.org

2. Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM, the local community radio, launched its 
first “radiothon”, a week long fundraising campaign on-the-air and in 
venues across Sheffield, on Monday 27 April 2009.  The Sheffield Live! 
Spring Appeal 2009 marks 18 months on-air as a full-time community radio 
service for Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM and celebrates World Press Freedom 
Day 2009 on 3 May.

3. Community Radio is a third tier of radio, distinct from Public
and Commercial Radio.  Community Radio stations are locally owned and
accountable to their audience.  They operate on public service
principles for community benefit and are not-for-profit.  For more
information visit www.commedia.org.uk

4. The Winter Garden is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be
built in the UK in the last hundred years. There are more than 2,500
plants from around the world creating a stunning green world in the
heart of the city.  For more information visit
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/city-centre/public-spaces/the-winter-garden

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Tel: +44 114 281 4082

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