It's *still* Hospital Broadcasting Week

Okay, that's day 2 over. I'm stil having fun. Who thought getting up early could be ok. Anyway the "smell" disappeard from yesterday (a rather unpleasent smell appeared in the studio just as I left). Though unlike my colleage at Perth FM, I can't complain about the cold - we're right in the centre of the hospital. No windows or anything. So it can get rather warm!

 

So, Bridge @ Breakfast continues at 8am tomorrow. I've been prepping away the last hour or so and I 've got some cracking content. Though, unfortunately the I'll actually have to buy a local paper at some point. Do the "local" thing. Hanging around Dundee yesterday didn't get me much in the way of stories to talk about...

 

That reminds me - I ought to do some coursework. I've done some team project stuff (a rather funky web interface with graphs to track "blobs") and have "THE MALLOC PRACTICAL" to get done. Its name is in caps as it seems like it'll be a killer.

"It's Hospital Broadcasting Week..."

No trip south of the border this week for me this time. Last year I was at the awards pushing my playout system. This year, I'm presenting breakfast at Bridge FM, where for the last few years they've done an RSL covering the city of Dundee to celebrate.

 

So it's an early start all week. Oh, all right, 8am - it's not too bad. It should be rather poppy music as well (I'm aiming to wake myself up as well). Now, let's see if I can give this pen on my desk away as a prize... well, the budget is tight! :P

Levels, Levels, Levels... and More!

Gah! It annoys me a bit. Peaking constantly for any period of time. It sounds horrible and sadly it's a bit of a habbit among STAR's on-air team. Even if it's not too loud it tends to be levels all over the place, almost as if PFL had never been discovered. 

 

Hopefully my new notice may get them to pay attention. It has large lettering, angry underlines and the required expletives (well, not really). I can accept mistakes that are corrected when you catch them, I do it from time to time. But listening to the output and not doing anything about distortion for minutes at a time... I'm not so happy about that.

 

And for the "more" bit. I've picked up the position of President of WiredSoc (Computer Science society). Let's see what we can do with Wired this year...

Election Results In

Well, they finally counted the votes. It's Phil to head up STAR. Is it unexpected? Not really, but it does mean STAR will now edge further into Musfund's territory with Starfields.

 

We disagree on music policy but it's completely in his hands now. I only ever disagreed on the basis we were too specialist - we're not competing with Kingdom, Tay or Wave but iTunes. Hopefully this year we will see money dedicated to a rotation based playout system (currently it's on select a random track from collection X).

 

Where will STAR go this year... who will know? But let's just hope we can get the listener figures up. :)

Blog Moved, etc.

Well, after the incident involving a complete rebuild of Wired, I've decided to move the blog into my own home directory. It's Wordpress and should survived moving between machines better than movable type. All the old posts have been moved over.

 

This week has been a busy one. Not only have I been working on wired,  I've also been campaigning to become station manager at STAR (we still await results).

 

At work, we've got a new website as well. Check it out at http://www.perthfm.co.uk/  It's better than the old one and has some content. Talking of which, I got my photo taken and have submitted the required material for the "DJ Blog".

Pointless Offers

My mobile phone company has given me one of those topup offers. I've topped up a tenner and been given 300 free texts. Not bad... until you remember I've sent 5 texts since Christmas!

STAR Studio Pics

I've just been clearing out the camera memory and noticed some pictures of STAR's studio. May as well share them eh?

More Airtime

After another phone call out of the blue, I've now taken on more hours doing work for Perth FM. So I now do Saturday breakfast and Sunday afternoon. This week was week 1 of the extended airtime.

The Sunday shift actually works quite well. I get a (relative) lie in and the first two hours are a request lunch type affair. Surprisingly, the request lunch actually gets a fair number of calls. Though, the last time I have seen the lines busy for request shows before, but that was a one week RSL for hospital radio!

I should settle into the new routine quickly enough. But until then, I'll stick to the all over the shop sleep pattern. :)