Station News & Blog

TCR in 'Your Staffordshire'

This month's 'Your Staffordshire' magazine shows TCR's Head of Promotions Erica Dancer and presenter Sam Lane looking ready to broadcast in studio.

The feature details how the Staffordshire County Council's Local Community Fund enabled purchase of our transmitter and provided funds to launch TCR's full time broadcast.

Inside you can see Joint Managing Directors Daniel Hoult and Martin Summers with presenter Lil Matt getting ready to broadcast live from Trinity on our launch night of 31st October 2009.

Your Staffordshire magazine is delivered to more than 350,000 homes and businesses in the county. If you haven't seen a copy you can read it online by clicking on the YS button from their homepage at http://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/yourcouncil/ys/

New Year, New Members...

It's a new year, and time for new members at TCR fm. Those of you who have contacted us recently, will have received notification of a meeting on Tuesday 12th Janaury to introduce you to the station.

From this we will be arranging our next radio training course. If you would like to attend, and haven't already e-mailed, get in touch with Scott, our Membership Officer here.

All this means you will begin hearing new voices on 106.8 fm. There are new schedule changes to come in the early part of this year too. Make sure you follow us on Twitter (@TCRfmTamworth) to stay informed.

Happy New Year for 2010

Happy New Year from all at TCR fm Tamworth!

This New Year's Day you can catch the last 10 years of "The Decades in Music" as we replay both parts of Hannah Smart's show from 3pm.

Normal schedule resumes from Saturday 2nd January 2010.

Happy Christmas from TCR fm

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the team at TCR fm.

We hope you have a happy holiday time.

Over the festive team we're still working away with some special shows on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

New Community Liaison Manager

TCR fm has now been broadcasting across Tamworth for over a month and we are pleased to welcome Sonia Ashley to our management team.

Sonia takes on the role of Community Liaison and Events Manager so she will be looking after local businesses and advertising, and inviting relationships between local events and the station, helping TCR fm fulfil our role in the community.

As with all the team at TCR fm the management jobs are filled voluntarily in everyone's spare time so we are always grateful of the time and effort all our volunteers contribute to the project.

Thank you to Sonia for being the latest person to volunteer their free time to the station for this challenging role.

TCR fm Disco 5th December 7-9pm

TCR fm are holding a FREE disco at Tamyouth as we celebrate our launch just one month on. You can join us with a celebration disco on Saturday 5th December (7-9pm) if you are between 12 and 17 years old.

Tickets are free but you need to apply via the contacts on the website or at Tamyouth.

If you can't join us, of course the evening will be broadcast live on air.

New website launched

The new TCR fm web site launched on Monday 26th October, just 5 days ahead of the station's launch on Halloween.

You can now view the schedule online for the first time and see what we have to offer.

Our site is based on a bespoke content management system developed in-house and is set to grow over the coming weeks!

TCR Partners with Tamworth Blog

TCR FM has announced a partnership with Tamworth Blog to provide the local news for the station when we go live later this summer.

Initially the Tamworth Blog news feed will be added to our website, allowing visitors to access local news.  When we go live later this summer, the news bulletins will carry Tamworth news as provided by the Blog alongside our regular national news.

TCR FM management are keen to avoid just providing national news on the community driven radio station and want to give news about Tamworth a platform on the radio waves, providing a real time, local news service to listeners.

Tamworth Blog's Warren Free had this to say on the partnership: "We here at Tamworth Blog are excited about this partnership as it brings both community radio and community news services bought together to provide locals with not only local news on the internet but also on the radio, bringing traditional and new media together."

Tamworth Blog provides a platform for local contributors to tell readers (and soon listeners) about stories and events in their local areas.  If you are interested in joining either team then please contact us.  Visit TamworthBlog.co.uk

Chico's Visit- July 2009

During TCR fm's broadcast at the Fun Day at Tamworth Youth Centre on Saturday 1st August, a special guest made a surprise appearance. X Factor's Chico, who was in Tamworth ahead of next weekend's Midlands Music Festival, popped in to the studio for a chat.

Presenter Erica Dancer took the opportunity for an impromptu interview with Chico while an audience looked on in the TCR fm studio. The interview was also broadcast live on Internet radio station Reach OnAir.com.

You can view a video (courtesy of Sam Lane) on YouTube.

TCR Does a Runner!

TCR Athletes Dean Vultaggio, Sheena Walinck, Kevin Turner and Darren Kimberley successfully completed TCR's FUN(DS) run on Sunday the 31st May.

They all took part in Sutton Coldfields' annual Great Midlands Fun Run, Dean and Sheena came in at a respectable 2hrs 30 minutes and Kevin Turner at an amazing 1 hour 40 minutes (Darrens' time is to be confirmed).

We'll let you know how much they raised as soon as the totals are in. An exhausted Dean & Sheena were captured taking a break in a bush shelter by our intrepid photographer (who nearly walked past them!).

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