On Air Podcast

Richard Smith Chat

Matt — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:09:21 +0000

Hi Folks,

I spoke with Richard Smith about the A to Z of Pop’s Big Broadcast. Here is the audio

http://audioboo.fm/boos/738463-richard-smith

Live Blogging of the National Hospital Radio Awards 2012

Matt — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:00:52 +0000

On the 31st March I will again be live blogging from the National Hospital Radio Awards being held in Northampton.

You can get to the live blog by going to www.bit.ly/hbaawards or click on the live page at the top of the main On Air Podcast website.

You will have the ability to send in comments via email or directly through the application alongside the ability if you use twitter to hashtag anything with #hbauk2012.

This year our coverage has been kindly sponsored by Psquared which has allowed us to purchase an Eye-fi card to enable better quality photos of the event to be sent to the live blog.

After the event you can win this card simply by being part of it. All those who take part in the event or use the hashtag #hbauk2012 will be entered into a draw and the card will be yours. You can read all about it at www.eye.fi

On Air Podcast #40 – March 2012

Matt — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:01:13 +0000

In this edition we speak with Paul and Emma Sysum from the Hospital Broadcasting Association all about what to expect at the Conference and Awards weekend in Northampton at the end of March 2012.

Enjoy

HBA Awards 2011 Audio

Matt — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:29:37 +0000

Here is the recording from the night:- http://traffic.libsyn.com/onairpodcast/hbaawards2011.mp3

Live Blogging of HBA Awards 2011

Matt — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:23:03 +0000

On Saturday 26th March I shall be live blogging the National Hospital Radio Awards from Maidstone. You will be able to follow along at www.onairpodcast.co.uk/live and I am looking for your involvement with comments etc.

Also if you are at the event you can send in your comments via twitter just use the hashtag #hbaawards.

News about OAP

Matt — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:54:23 +0000

Hi All,

I am pleased to say I have been blessed with a baby boy, Reuben on the 19th November!

I won’t be updating this until 2011 when hopefully we shall have some new content.

Hope you all have a good Christmas – I will have a sleepless one! – M

Welcome

Matt — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:13:13 +0000

Hello and thanks for visiting. This is where you will find podcast audio to do with topics of interest to those involved in Hospital Radio.

You can subscribe in itunes by just clicking on the itunes logo to the right of the page.

On Air Podcast #39 – June Edition: Broadcasting Outside The Studios

Matt — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:59:34 +0000

Joining me on the podcast this month is Nick Beer from Westcountry Broadcast, Jeff Brown from the BBC World Service and Radio Hillingdon and Tony Wilding from Rugby Hospital Radio.

We talk about the variety of ways you can broadcast remotely to your station which will be ideal with summer on it’s way. We talk about pricey ways to go and cheap/free ways to go. Also included are audio samples.

Links:-

Westcountry Broadcast
Vortex
Luci Live
Tony Wilding Site

Hope you enjoy the podcast. Comments below or on facebook.com/onairpodcast.

On Air Podcast #38 – May Edition: Generic Programming Part 2

Matt — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:33:25 +0000

A wrap up of the April edition including more audio from Ken Anton and an interview with Chris Milward who presents and producing ‘The Elevatorzone’

In this episode we talk more about generic programming available for your station.

Sources Mentioned:-

Ken Anton – http://www.shrs.org.uk/shrsresources/programmes/res-ka.html

The Elevatorzone – bubbatheloungehound@sky.com

Read stuff from the Web … on your show. These tools may help

Matt — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:45:56 +0000

So with the ability to surf the web whilst on air in most studios I thought I would share some web-tools you can use which may make reading text from website easier to do whilst on air. Now of course plenty of people will say “well you should edit the text and make it more radio friendly” but sometimes you either can’t be bothered or you run out of time.

So the first tool is called ‘Readability’ and is available here. You setup readability on the site and then create a bookmark for it (it works with safari and firefox, maybe IE) then go to the site you want to read from and when on that site click on your ‘Readability’ bookmark. It takes whichever website you are on at the time and strips out all the distractions such as ads and flash banners and gives you the main text in an easy to read layout.

The second tool is called ‘Autoscroll’ and is available here. Now after you have sent your webpage through Readability. Create a bookmark from the Autoscroll site and click on it and this will start automatically scrolling the webpage for you – just like autocue on the tv. You can control the speed of the scroll etc with the number keys.

It is worth giving them a go and see how you get on. I have found them very useful – Matt