On Air Podcast

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

On Air Podcast #37 – April Edition: Generic Programmes

Matt — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:52:01 +0000

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

You can download the .mp3 here

Sources Mentioned:-

Infosound – www.infosound.org

Hosiprog – www.hosiprog.talktalk.net

Music Box – www.mbonline.co.uk

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

A to Z of Pop – www.theatozofpop.co.uk

Storynory – www.storynory.com

Ray Oxley – rayoxley@yahoo.com

The Elevatorzone – bubbatheloungehound@sky.com

Using WordPress to produce iPhone optimised website

Matt — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:06:27 +0000

I had posted this at my blog – mattwade.tumblr.com but thought I would cross post it here:-

I volunteer at Hospital Radio Chelmsford as I have since 1991 and recently they have released a new website and Facebook Fan Page to improve their online presence.

This lead me onto helping them to create an iPhone oprtimised website to run in conjunction with the main site. I knew that the facility existed in wordpress to automatically format the page into a readable experience on the iPhone so I thought I would write up how I did it so if anyone else wishes to do it they can.

As with anything run by volunteers the idea is to reduce effort/time to a minimum so the webmaster did not want it to increase his workload. The main site already produced a couple of different RSS feeds and so this was key to automating the process.

I installed a wordpress installation into the /iphone/ directory on the website which was going to be the url and from there it was down to the plugins. Firstly the plugin I used which formats the site for iPhone is called ‘WPtouch iPhone Theme’ and then to import the RSS feeds and process them as Posts I used a plugin called ‘FeedWordPress’.

Both of these plugins once installed are easy to configure to your needs. The FeedWordPress allows you to set a category for each RSS feed you import and it will automatically poll the RSS feeds every hour for changes so the webmaster needs do nothing except update the main site.

From there it was just a matter of making a front page which would be the static page on the site you would see when first visiting the site and getting hold of any missing icons I needed. I bit of searching around found me the html I needed to get the site to operate the SMS messages and the Calling function from the site which automatically makes the iPhone go into the SMS app or the Phone app.

All this work can be seen at the site which is www.hrc.org.uk/iphone. It doesn’t look pretty if viewing in the normal web browser but on the iPhone or Android phone it formats correcly but feel free to copy the html if you want.

Hope you find this of interest – Matt

On Air Podcast #36 – 12th Feb 2010 – Chris Brooks Interview

Matt — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:29:47 +0000

It’s Back!

On the Podcast we talk with Chris Brooks founder of Yellow Media about the radio courses on offer there along with what makes a good demo tape and presenter along with some radio chat.

Also there are all the details of how to get in touch with the Podcast if you would like to take part.

Direct Download here

Links Mentioned:-
www.onairpodcast.co.uk
www.yellow-media.co.uk
www.audioboo.fm
www.psquared.net
www.facebook.com/onairpodcast
www.mattwadeonline.co.uk