2000 Our Presenting Stars and Backstage Information

• Hospital Respond

  In January 2000 a response was received to our letter to the trust sent in November 1999 over the treatment of the radio service with the LPAM project and the notification of the move of the radio.We cascaded that information in a personal letter to all staff on the 11th January.

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• Last Day Broadcast Service

  On that last broadcast from the old studio, what should the last record be?.

  A number of suggestions were put forward.

  The first record played when we went on the medium wave in 1988 was Thankyou for the music,( Abba )should it be the last.?

  When studio two was Officially opened we used
  Leo Sayer When I Need You ?
  John Miles - Music ( Words in the song say it all )
  American Pie - Don Mclean
  Remember Me Diana Ross
  Memories- Elaine Paige
  Unforgettable Nat King Cole
  No Particular Place to Go Chuck Berry
  Nothings going to stop us now-Starship
  Nobody does it better-Carly Simon
  The Best- Tina Turner
  Don't you forget about me Simple Minds
  Holding back the years - Simply Red or if we are feeling really sad we could play Agadoo by Black Lace.
  In the end the record chosen by Matthew was “Time to say goodbye” Andrea Bocelli.

• 22nd July Programme's

  The last day programming was organised by Matthew Robinson.

  As well as some A5 leaflets also some A4 leaflets were produced and distributed to the wards and staff.

  Matthew was assisted in the organization of the last programme's by Sarah Bishton.

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• Wavestation

  The name wavestation was the software name of a program which allowed radio stations to broadcast music ( wav files/MP3 files) in a broadcast environment.

  24 Hour Project Folder

  At this stage in our history we had named our project wavestation and were already making preparations to move to automated broadcasting using computers.

  Having reviewed the 4 programs in the market place at this time we had chosen wavestation.

  Our investigations into low power AM had determined that we would need some sort of automated holding service when programs were not live.

  Whilst all the other things were going on in the background with the move etc. we were converting our CD collection into MP3 files.

  by the end of 2000 we had over 7700 mp3 files ready to use.

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• Mini-disc Jingles

  The jingles used within programs got a makeover this year with the aid of PJ's computer.As part of the wavestation activity all of the existing jingles were turned into mp3's and included with this was the revision of the existing on mini-disc.

  A number of jingles originally produced by Kevin Donaldson some years earlier were given an update.

  In addition PJ put on his creative hat once more and produced a number of station promotions which continued in use till the station closed

  26 all new jingles were the result.

  The first airing of the jingles were on the closedown of the old studio on the 22nd July during PJ's show.

2000 Year Twenty Four Story Unfolds

2000 was a very busy year for the station management and as the year unfolded there was much to do and organise

For further information about this year:- Follow the links

• 2000 Year Twenty Four Summary
• 2000 Summer House Under New Management
• 2000 Summer House Building Work Gallery
• 2000 Summer House Construction Reports
• 2000 First Web Presence
• 2000 Time To Say Goodbye
• 2000 Archive News Stories
• 2000 Staff Newsletter
• Story Of the Archive
• Radio Video Archive
• History Site Map

Welcome to our Picture board

Some captured moments of our volunteers,during this year.

Our Stars of 2000

Welcome to our Picture board

In early October whilst the builders were carrying out work on the ground floor of maternity unit,cables were damaged and an aerial was ripped from a wall knocking out the am service for ward 8. This left the loan radio's useless and was not able to be repaired until Feb 2001.

A temporary repair was effected by PJ and a visit to the old premises with the camera captured the already vast changes which had taken place.

Builders Damage

Old Studio, Builders have moved in

And in the End

The year 2000 was dominated by the move of the hospital radio studio to it's new premises.

Recruitment was put on hold until the end of the year as the station management wrestled with the need to get the new studio up and running.

The move wasn't without issue's caused by the lack of discussion with the relevant hospital people, of their making. In addition when it came down to the move of the actual contents of the studio the family members of the management were called upon to help.

By the end of 2000 the new studio was on air and the balance of work needed to complete all the tasks and re-instate studio 2 would be expected to be complete by March 2001.

The provision of a nice new studio's in a wooden building which had already been designated as low standard for the hospital's own staff, would create new problems and one which caused issue's from the start was the temperature during the summer month's, on one occasion 90 degrees was recorded.

To help offset the high temperatures, curtains were added to all windows and reflective film to all windows. In addition all hot water pipes running round all of the rooms were boxed in.This all added to the time of the build remedial work, by the station engineer.

Privately the new premises generated a number of discussions within the radio and league and long term it was touched upon how the building would in fact cause issues during the coming years. The question unanswered also was, how long would we be in this location ?

A spate of damage was inflicted upon the inductive loop system this year of which the hospital contractors were the guilty party.

The station still managed to pull in donations for loan radio's as well as donations to our upkeep.

The year will always be remembered as the year of the move.

Staff Departures this year 4, Arrivals 2.

P. J. Davidson-Smith Secretary May 2011

Archive Gems

Just some extra's we found:-

• E-Mail Newsletter

  As more and more presenters gained email addresses this year the station secretary kept in touch with the majority of staff through the use of email.

  A newsletter once a month from July onwards kept staff informed of issues affecting the radio.

• Quick Notice

  In late February Dave posted this message for all staff and then in March added the post script.

  Originally advised of a completion of April/May the works department were also doing alterations to ward 6 which were over running.

• Studio Log

  The presenters requirement to fill in the studio log received a revision in the information needed to be collected and the front page of the log showed the requirements for each section.