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Dover Community Radio
Press Release 2: 30 June 2010
Dover Community Radio's second public meeting occurred on Monday 21st June at The White Horse Pub in Dover seeing the pub packed full of eager participants interested in the vision of ''community radio'' for Dover. During the evening DCR established teams to run the community radio project. This included news, promotions and marketing, youth, events, technical and local music. We will be establishing new roles to run the station as it develops. DCR also welcomed a number of new faces at the last meeting and we are pleased to have them on board as interest in the station grows. We would like to thank all members and supporters for their interest and dedication so far.
During the last few weeks we have been attending local events and have a variety of 'podcasts' on the website covering a range of topics. These included the Hellfire Corner Weekend, Rolls Royce Celebrations, Dover Castle's 1960's weekend and the last Youth of Generations Gig in Dover Town Hall. Here we learnt about the local music scene and included interviews with such up and coming musicians as Eclipze, Luke Jackson and Queef to name a few. We would urge all local musicians to get in touch with us as we would like to promote their music via our website and on our proposed radio station.
DCR will be on air from the 20th November until 5th December across Dover on FM to promote Dover's Christmas Cheer Extravaganza and Lights Switch On Event in conjunction with Dover Town Council. We shall be undertaking a 'online' broadcast to train members of the team and promote the FM broadcast the week before we come on air.
The training schemes are going well as a many members have signed up to participate in interview and editing sessions during the summer. We also have a list of events we are aiming to cover during the summer months on both the radio station and its website. These are also training sessions as our members learn interview techniques in the field as a number of our members have already participated in. Our collaboration with local schools is also increasing and will get students involved during the summer. We would be keen to hear from any schools or community groups who wish to be involved with DCR.
As part of a marketing strategy we are also aiming to run a poster competition to advertise the station. This will also include a competition to create a slogan for DCR to use on our website and on air. We would be very interested to hear from any schoolchildren who would like to participate. The poster must include a image of the stations logo which can be found on our website. We will of course, be bringing you more information on these competitions as and when they are confirmed.
If anyone has an event or news story you wish for us to cover they can contact us on
info@dovercommunityradio.co.uk . Our public meeting will be at The White Horse Public House, St James' Street, Dover at 7pm on Monday 26th July 2010. We would like to thank Jeanette and all the staff at 'The White Horse' for allowing us to use their premises for meetings. If anyone wishes to find out more or get involved in our 'training sessions' and DCR they can contact us on
info@dovercommunityradio.co.uk . Our website is at
www.dovercommunityradio.co.uk