Tees Valley Community Media

Introducing Tees Valley Community Radio & TV

01/06/07

Tees Valley Community Radio and TV can be found at www.tvcr.org.uk Allthough in it's infancy there has been a great deal of interest over the past few weeks. What you see as you arrive at the website are a number of "Channels" down the left hand side representing a number of groups, projects and individuals. More channels will be added in the coming weeks. The three main Tees Valley webcast events are represented here too. You can go to an individual channel and look/listen or subscribe to it's podcast feed. OR in the centre of the page is an amalamation of ALL the channels. If you subscribe to this feed you will get ALL the channels as new content is produced

A parallel project was started in Adult Learners' Week - May 2007 to explore Media Literacy. The excercise was based on three 'Internet radio' workshops run in collaboration with Hope Foundation in Middlesbrough, residents of the village of Margrove Park and Destinations UK online centre in Saltburn.

The whole project was a collaboration between NIACE and University of Teesside Department of Academic Enterprise (Community Media).

More details of that project can be found here where you can hear participants interviewing and being interviewed about the skills they had learned. A full report will be published at the end of June.

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Comment from: Zoe Brooks [Visitor]

I am asking you to help us promote an official e-petition to the Prime Minister. The petition asks that local community radio stations be allowed to broadcast for free when there is a local emergency.

The background to this is that due to licence limitations my local community radio station (in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire) was unable to respond to the recent flooding as they wanted to and indeed as the community needed them to. They have therefore started an online petition with the 10 Downing Street website - http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/flood-radio/ to change things.

It is now too late to make much of a difference for the recent floods, but sadly this are unlikely to be the last time that community radio will be needed in this way. Community radio stations could be an important part of getting locally specific information to local communities (in a way that other media can not).

Could you please ask your listeners to sign the petition on http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/flood-radio/
They will be sent an email - to confirm that they really are who they say they are, which they must respond to to confirm their signature.

If you have any email networks you can send this on to please do so.

Thanks

Zoe Brooks

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