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Mearns Community Radio - Useful Links

The Community Media Association The Community Media Association's mission is "to enable people to establish and develop community based communications media for community development and empowerment, cultural expression, information and entertainment."

Community Radio Toolkit:  a lively, user-friendly space to discuss, debate, question and inform yourselves about key matters in community radio. Resources, a range of changing activities and links to other useful websites.

BBC Training and Development BBC radio courses cover all aspects of technical and operational radio skills and can also provide tailored radio training.

The Radio Academy "Getting Into Radio" is a unique collection of advice, suggestions, hints and tips from our colleagues throughout the radio industry, originally compiled as a 60-minute CD. We now have the pleasure of offering it to you as MP3 audio, here on our website. We know that you'll find it useful and hope that you enjoy it.

Audacity Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

Internet radio for schools.  The BT Education Programme offers a selection of guides.  Using the most basic of equipment they take you through pre-production issues, writing scripts, presentation skills, interviewing techniques, and post-production issues such as editing and assembling the programme.

Other radio station web sites you may want to look at are:

http://www.nevisradio.co.uk/

 

http://www.leithfm.co.uk/blog/

http://www.midlothianradio.org.uk/

 

http://www.jubileefm.co.uk/

http://www.necrfm.co.uk/

 

http://www.celticmusicradio.net/

http://www.isles.fm

 

http://www.blackdiamondfm.com/

http://www.heartlandfm.co.uk

 

http://www.revivalradio.org.uk/

http://www.obanfm.org

 

http://www.sunnygovan.org/

http://www.radioregen.org/

 

http://www.dunooncommunityradio.org/

 

 

 

Department of Culture, Media and Sport

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport also have a section of their website giving the legal background and with an interesting summary of the presentations at the community media Seminar in February 2005.

Cummunity FM

Working towards a toolkit for community radio, this site includes Q&A on filling in a community radio licence application form, and an interview with “the man from Ofcom”.

Ofcom on community radio licensing

The horse’s mouth. A map of the community radio licenses granted so far, details of the licensing process and information on the Community Radio Fund as well as more links and useful info.

Aberdeenshire Council

Population statistics and other information on and maps of the local area are available from the Council’s statistics pages.

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