[cma-l] Infosound Audio Services for Community Radio Stations

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Infosound is a national UK charity that provides
professionally-produced news and information, in audio, for the 2
million blind and partially-sighted people living in the UK, their
families, friends and carers.

The charity’s Editor, former BBC Radio Producer/Presenter/Programme
Organiser Rowland Myers, says: “Someone in the UK starts to lose their
sight every 15 minutes and Infosound aims to spread impartial and
relevant information to help anyone who lives with sight loss to be
aware of the many agencies that provide practical help, support and
equipment so they can get the most out of life”.

Infosound currently distributes everything it produces via its web
site (http://www.infosound.org.uk) and the content is all free for
community radio stations to use within their own programming.

The audio material falls broadly into two categories:

* A weekly, 15-minute bulletin of news and information (called the
‘Infosound Briefing’).  Each edition covers several topics.  It is
made available to download before 12 noon every Monday.
* Longer (3- to 10-minute) features covering just one topic in more
depth. These are available to download just as soon as they have been
produced.

Infosound also podcasts everything it produces:

http://www.infosound.org.uk/podcast.xml

Editorially, the content is unbiased, impartial, strictly
non-political and non commercial.  Infosound neither endorses nor
condemns any product or service. The charity is not sponsored
commercially but the weekly ‘Briefing’ is supported by the UK charity
“British Wireless for the Blind Fund”, another non-commercial charity
that supports vision-impaired people.

Because the material is all self-contained, it is easy to include
within most programme formats and it doesn’t need introducing or
back-announcing in any detail, if at all. Outline summaries of audio
features’ subjects and a list of ‘Briefing’ contents are given on the
charity’s web site.

The 15-minute ‘Briefing’, in particular, could provide a useful filler
and it can easily be scheduled for regular and repeated outings
throughout the week on automated play-out systems.  All music used is
copyright-free and the only stipulation for use is that none of the
audio material is edited, extracted or amended.

For further information, please go to:

http://www.infosound.org.uk/media

where a 2-minute audio trailer can also be downloaded or email Rowland
at audio at infosound.org.uk

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