Pic by Pedro Moura Pinheiro (flickr)
At Punch Records, where I sit as creative producer along with DJ Ray Paul, we’ve just announced a new public radio project, BASS FM. It lands in June with twenty young people behind it. Who are those young people? We don’t know yet – so we’re holding a broadcast bootcamp on the 27th April to find them (Contact Waqar if you think you are one of them)
One of the things exciting me about delivering BASS FM is the opportunity to stress test the offer of FM radio to the digital generation. Plus it’s always exciting to push artists and audiences together within certain fixed constraints. Here’s a few radio stories that have inspired me. I’ll be posting others as we go.
- QTV - radio for the people in Northern Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province
- Reprezent- 2008 youth crime initiative becomes ‘the voice of young London’
- Star FM - my favourite, a youth station in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, with no licence that puts out it’s programmes on CD and connects with listeners via SMS
