[cma-l] FW: General Election 2015 - Community Radio Archive - your contributions are wanted.

[Canalside's The Thread]

Dear All

 

I've always wanted to make an observation about this, and here's my chance.
At the last Election we actually took our recording kit out to a couple of
the local Hustings .. Recorded the debate with Green/Liberal Dem/Lab/Tory
... it was a very good recording and we played it out on-air 3 times.

 

We will do the same this time around  PLUS   this week we have already
started pulling folk in. We are including many Local Councillors and of
course the Parliamentary Candidates. We of course are NOT talking here
lips-service or mini soundbates, we are talking real interviews, proper
grillings and husting broadcasts with interaction.

 

The point I want to make is this is where we really do come into our own.
For example a Medium sized Town somewhere in Lancashire or Cornwall that
hasn't got a Community Station could be losing out. The local MP might not
be big enough or important enough for Regional / National exposure, but can
really hammer home his/her policies via the Community Station where they
basically take top of the Bill.

 

On another lighter note, I had to laugh over the weekend when I read Eds
apparent rhetoric re :- taking the foot of the Gas with restrictive
measures. He said it wasn't right that Radio Stations were being restricted
.........I thought to myself               eh ?????         I pinched myself
but then realised I was in the real World. We know he was talking about
'other' restrictions .. At the end of the day though, a restriction is a
restriction. Goalposts being uprooted again and moved to somewhere else on
the playing field (in case anyone is unsure which playing field I mean)(it's
Pitch Number One - the one that's had the uneven surface for the last 12
years)    LOL

 

Onwards and Upwards ..Vote Community Radio   :-)

 

Nick

 

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Sent: 17 March 2015 14:23
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Subject: [cma-l] General Election 2015 - Community Radio Archive - your
contributions are wanted.

 

General Election 2015 - Community Radio Archive

 

The British Library plans to create an archive of UK community radio
programmes around the forthcoming General Election. All (Ofcom licensed)
community radio stations are invited to participate by recording their most
interesting election programming between now and the end of the week
following the election - i.e. Friday 15 May 2015. So that we can plan the
project and the resources needed please drop a line to Paul Wilson
(radio at bl.uk) expressing your interest in contributing and we will contact
you with further instructions and advice on how to deliver the recordings.


 

Why are we doing this?

 

The objective is to demonstrate the value of a more nationally
representative, pluralistic  and localised news radio archive. We also hope
that the corpus will suggest the potential value of community radio more
generally. This is NOT a competition and in this case we're not particularly
concerned with 'production values' or traditional notions of broadcast
'quality'.   

 

What do we want?

 

We're opening it to almost any kind of commentary and are allowing
individual stations to decide what to contribute, but it should relate in
some way to the 2015 General Election and issues around it. For example, it
might be:

 

*         an interview with a local MP

*         a debate of some sort featuring members of the public

*         a programme which listeners phoned into

*         coverage of an election related event 

 

We'd like the programme to reflect each community's electoral interests -
whether they are the topics of national discussion right now (e.g. the
immigration debate, NHS, tuition fees etc) or matters of more local concern
such as redevelopment of a public space, a local oil exploration application
or local employment concerns etc. It could be serious and analytic in tone,
light-hearted (e.g. comic parody or drama inspired by topical events) or
angry debate.

 

How much do we want each station to provide and in what form?

 

As a general guide between 30 mins and 4 hours from each participating
station would be fine. We would prefer where possible to have complete shows
(please leave any continuity and any interrupting news bulletins or music
intact). We will also accept excerpts where the relevant segment was a
self-contained element of a longer and otherwise non-relevant programme.
However we do not want individual programmes or programme segments to be
edited in such a way as to highlight, modify or censor any contributor's
views or language, however offensive or extreme. The archive will not be
used to characterise any particular station or community.

 

What formats are acceptable?

 

This will depend on what format each station is transmitting and the
recording mechanisms they have available but in general we're aiming for the
highest resolution available - 

*         WAV (but not compressed formats transcoded to WAV)

*         AAC encoded MPEG-4 or MPEG-2

*         MPEG-3 (highest res available)

 

What accompanying information do we need?

 

We would like whatever metadata is available, but as a minimum the basic
schedule data and any published description: station name, programme title,
transmission date and time, names and roles of
producer/contributors/speakers where available and programme description.
Links to any supplementary or contextualising information and rights holder
information will also be welcome. As a guide we will provide each
participating station with a spreadsheet to complete.    

 

What will we do with it?

 

In due course we will catalogue and archive the corpus and make it available
for onsite study and research here at the Library. We may also give online
access to UK HFE institutions either directly or via a partner institution
with the appropriate licence. Selected content may be made available online
with station and other rights holders permission, where stations agree and
the requisite permissions can be arranged. We will actively encourage and
facilitate the corpus's use for research and will report back to stations
our findings at a later date, directly or via a blog.

 

If your station wishes to participate please drop an email with your contact
details to Paul Wilson at radio at bl.uk

 






-- 
Tamar Millen 
Arts Coordinator 
Community Media Association 
15 Paternoster Row 
Sheffield 
S1 2BX
0114 2795219
 
www.arts.commedia.org.uk
 
 
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