2006 Our Presenting Stars and Backstage Information

• What’s New To Radio Heatherwood From 1st June

  Staff Notice board Briefing :-

  Two new images will be broadcast by the radio service.

  Day Time service

  From 6.30am till 10.30pm each day will be all the usual programs but with an up tempo music content.

  Night Time Service

  From 10.30pm each day until 6.30am will be all the usual programs but with a more mellow music content.

  Over 260 advertising Jingles have been created to promote the new service.

  New news introductions have been created.

  The month of June will broadcast all down the decades programs with content from the sounds of the seventies.

  On July 1st Rhapsody will start playing the normal service with day and night separations and all down the decades programs allocated as per the matrix sheet.

  Each broadcast hour will follow the current format for music type content. I.e. the split of the hour will still contain music from each one of the designated categories.

  The day time music backing is called :- Ocean Blue by Jane C Shapiro

  The night time music backing is called:- Peace Piece by Scott Lyle Sambora

  The news Intro music backing is called:- Grand Entrance by Karen May Jackson

  These are available to be played during your shows

  Greg Marston has been used to update the voice over's.

  The total cost of the music and voiceover's has cost £228.

• Tee Shirts

  At the end of 2005 work was under way to design a new tee shirt logo to celebrate our thirty years.

  When we previously had placed orders for shirts the company wanted a minimum order qty, working on this information trying to get presenters to show an interest and indicate how many they would want was as usual extremely hard to motivate.

  In January we started looking for a new company to supply not only tee shirts but polo and sweatshirts.

  The first company who supplied a completed sweatshirt obviously did not process the image properly and the design on the sweatshirt could not be read.

  A new company chosen was Thread bear embroidery, an excellent sample was received and they were very helpful. In the end we ordered 47 shirts of various types and eight bears.

  The company would supply a small bear wearing a small tee shirt with your logo on. This proved appealing and one of the bears was adopted as the mascot for the radio.

  The order was placed at the beginning of March and by the end of March the order was received and presenters were encouraged to wear their shirts whilst on the wards.

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• Press Coverage 30 Year

  Only one local paper carried the news story about our 30th Birthday.

  It was disappointing for us as memories of times gone by were re-kindled, where events and deeds received no coverage.

Bulletin Board Patient Feedback

The introduction of the on line bulletin board for presenters already paid dividends as presenters shared their feedback from ward rounds.

Patient Feedback

June 12th

Mr Michael Fenn Who was visiting his son on ward 1, Told me that he spent 10 day in Heatherwood himself not long ago. He listened to Radio Heatherwood every night. He was very impressed with the friendly radio staff and the music that was played throughout the night.

June 12th

Barbara Atkins on ward 10 would like to thank all the people at Radio Heathwood. For helping to make her stay as happy and pleasant as possible. She liked the down the decade slot and the 1970's programs.

But did add we should have had a bigger write up in the paper for the 30th birthday

Jun 30th Mr Robert Nicholls Ward 10 Patient

I have received a letter of thanks from Robert who was a patient on ward 10 for some time. He has praised the nursing care he has received as well as recognizing the work of the league. A cheque for the league for £80 was enclosed

Jul 11th

John Gladman, a patient on ward 4, has asked me to pass on his thanks to everybody at the radio and also said how much he enjoyed listening the radio and to keep up the good work. John said while in hospital, most of his day was spent listening to Radio Heatherwood, better than any of the TV programs. john has also given permission for his name and comments to be added to the web site

Jul 16th Thank you from Mary on ward 4

Just to let you know when Katie and I were doing the ward rounds on Thursday a lady called Mary on ward 4 told me she was being discharged that day and therefore didn't want a request.

She then went on to tell me she had made a few requests during her stay and that Radio Heatherwood had been a constant source of comfort for her when she wasn't up to feeling sociable with the other patients on the ward.

She congratulated us all on our volunteering efforts and said it was a very good thing we did indeed......

Aug 5th We got a donation!

Just to let you know James picked up a donation from a lovely chap called Douglas (think he was ward 8) on Thursday.

Douglas donated £2 to Radio Heatherwood and said we delivered a great service - what a sweetie!

If he's still in then be sure to stop by and say hello......

Aug 12th Marcie And Joanne

Marcie on ward 1G and Joanne on ward 10 today both said they liked the music we have been playing and were avid listeners during the day and night.

Both were recipients of our Mugs today, delivered by the vinyl junkie young Al

Dec 21st Grace Ainley Writes

I have today received a Christmas Card from Grace Ainley who was in Heatherwood earlier in the year She Writes:-

Hello Peter Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas. I was in hospital some time back, was very nice having the radio by the bed. Thankyou So Much For Your Excellent Work

Yours Sincerely Grace Ainley.

In addition to her kind words, was a donation of £10, it's nice that we were in her thoughts at this time of the year.

The name seemed familiar to me and I wondered how she knew my home address. I checked back in my archive and Grace Sponsored a Loan radio in 1996 after a stay in the hospital.

2006 Year Thirty Story Unfolds

2006 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

• 2006 Year Thirty Summary
• 2006 Patients Choice
• 2006 Point & Shoot
• 2006 Our Stars & Backstage Information
• 2006 Bear Point & Shoot
• 2006 Archive News Stories
• 2006 Staff Newsletter
• 2006 Staff Bulletin Board
• Story Of the Archive
• Radio Video Archive
• History Site Map

Sounds of the 70's

The month of June given over to the sounds of the seventies as the radio service celebrates 30 years was in the planning from 2005.

Each team night were allocated particular years and would research for trivia inserts for their years.

Work behind the scenes compiling the trivia and producing the liners and trailers for the programs started in March.

In support of the programs for June 200 leaflets were run off and distributed to the patients.

Welcome to our Picture board

Some captured moments of our volunteers,during this year.

Our Stars of 2006

And in the End

This year saw the completion of training for a brand new broadcast team on Thursdays, staff bulletin board is introduced, improvements to the station library and the rebranding of the sound of Radio Heatherwood.

The training of presenters continued this year and subtle changes were taking place to the training as we gained more knowledge of what works what doesn't. The success for us was the re-opening of Thursdays.

New applicants applying for posts as in previous years, still offering limited time availability. Nobody indicating Fridays Saturdays, only usually for Mondays or Tuesdays.

The most significant change for us this year was the change to the jingle package and the re-branding of the sound offering a day time and night time image of different tempo's which was well received by our listeners.

Radio Heatherwood was still moving forward and changes being made continued throughout the year.

P Davidson-Smith Secretary July 2011

Archive Gems

Just some extra's we found:-

• Image Reminder

  The new tee shirt logo was printed off and placed around the studio's to remind presenter's.

• Staff Bulletin Board

  Over the years keeping staff up to date with news about the station changes to procedures and general information has been an up hill task.
  We tried notice boards , posters newsletters, email newsletters.

  All have their pluses or minuses, but the one thing which makes them fall down is their not instant.

  In March 2006 We were investigating the possibility to set-up an on line bulletin board. The change of ISP's the previous year would now allow us to host one on our web site.

  By the beginning of May we were ready to launch with the presenters bulletin board.

  We chose YABB which was a free service and stands for yet another bulletin board.

  The bulletin board has been a success and has provided a more instant access for everyone.

  In 2011, the board had generated the following:- Total Topics:1383, Total Posts:4848

• Bed Head Terminals

  In July a set of guidelines are written into the operations manual as part of the review of practises regarding ward rounds.

• Vinyl Categories

  In October a new set of guidelines are issued for staff with the music library, as changes are made to show every record has now been categorized.Over 50,000 song titles are given a category.

• Gold Training

  In October Katie Ayers, Ian Shephard, Ian Butcher, spent four Wednesdays evenings learning the art of jingle making using the computer.PJ & Roge delivered the training and the Wednesday evenings became their training night until February 2007.