Station News & Blog

Take up the challenge

Tamworth Youth Centre will be celebrating the two year countdown to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in style, with an ‘Open Weekend.’

The youth centre will throw open it’s doors to the public on Saturday July 24 and encourage young people and their families to try something new or different.  There will be a climbing wall, artistic challenges, fun sports, silly games and much more, with full use being made of the indoor and outdoor sports areas, arts workshop and coffee bar.

The day will also be an opportunity to visit the centre and see what it has to offer young people in Tamworth, including community radio station 106.8 TCR fm. You can visit the team to see how the station operates and even take up a radio challenge live in the studio!

There will be demonstrations from the Tamworth Table Tennis Association and the Urban Fusion dance crew.  Young people from the centre and the Tamworth District Youth Forum will be on hand on the day to support the activities, encouraging young people to ‘Come along and take up the challenge!’

Registrations are now open for the event, and the centre is urging as many young people as possible to sign up and take part.  Those coming along will also get a flavour of what is on offer to them during the school summer holidays.

County Councillor Ben Adams, Cabinet Member for Communities and Culture said:  “It’s fantastic to see so many people embracing the countdown to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the open day at Tamworth Youth Centre will certainly get everyone in the sporting mood.  It’s also a chance for young people to see exactly what positive activities the youth centre has to offer them, and I’m sure many of them will not pass up this chance.

Open Day Success

Sunday 30th May was a busy open day combined with our friends of Reach OnAir. Thanks for everyone who came to say Hi.

We are now working on getting together a new training course for 7 weeks of radio training.

If you weren't able to come get in touch and let us know you're interested in helping out.

Open Day 30th May

On Sunday 30th May TCR fm will be holding an open day from 10am to 4pm. You can pop in and say hello while we open the doors of our studios at Tamworth Youth Centre.

Some of our team members will be on hand to help you find out a bit more about what we do and how to get involved in Tamworth's community radio station.

As well as TCR fm we are combining our open day with our sister station on the Internet, Reach OnAir. Reach OnAir is an online radio station giving anyone the chance to try their hand at presenting and "Be the DJ". You can meet the Reach team and many members who will be broadcasting live all day too.

That's 2 stations in one, so come and visit us on Sunday 30th May, 10am to 4pm.

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!

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