Just so you know I am still in the land of the living. I am still without my own studio at home whilst building work continues on my new-ish place.

This work is causing me high stress and so until it is sorted I won’t be putting out another podcast unless something really big happens.

I hope you won’t mind too much.

Matt

There is a bit of Hospital Radio News and what is going on in the world of me! See you all in Leeds and there may be a podcast just before that all about the awards so make sure you subscribe.

Links to items mentioned in the podcast:
Hospital Radio Gibralter
HBA Website

The first podcast in series 2 of the On Air Podcast for 2008. I am joined by Mike Skinner from the Hospital Broadcasting Association who is the Sales and Advertising officer for the association. We talk about the trade show in Leeds at the end of March and the other bits his role involves. There is also Hospital Radio News and find out what has been going on in ‘Wade’s World’

 Links Mentioned in the Show:
www.hrc.org.uk - Hospital Radio Chelmsford Website for Treasure Chest
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23352803@N00/tags/miami/ - My Photos of Miami

I am after your images to put into the top of the page on rotation so if you have any hospital radio related images please send them to me at onairpodcast@gmail.com. Let me know what you think and there will be more on the site when I get around to it.

Matt

I have had to change my voicemail number for the podcast. It is 020 8123 2181 and if you dial this number you should hear my voice and then you can leave a message. If you have skype you can also leave a message by adding ‘mattwade01′ to your contacts list.

It would be great if I could get more input from you and your hospital radio station. I hope to get back into the podcasting seat by the end of this month. I have a call with Mike Skinner in the works to hear all about the trade show exhibitors at the Leeds Conference.

I have been doing some work on the podcast in the background finally getting all the i’s dotted etc with the HBA. Please come back soon to check on the site as it moves forward.

M

Well I have moved home and now have somewhere better for the studio except that room is full of boxes!

I hope to have something in place by February so I can get a show out to you. If you have anything you want me to mention on the podcast drop me an email - onairpodcast@gmail.com

Thanks for staying with me! I’m having a party on Saturday if you want to pop by let me know.

Matt

Originally it was going to be drawn at the Newport conference but have given you more time to get your name in the prize hat.

You can find out more details about the prize and competition by listening to podcast #30 below. Psquared have kindly donated two licenses for their Nexus software www.psquared.net/nexus for more details. This will look after your email and web access along with live read scripts and remote myriad control.

I am after your feedback on the show and involvement. Perhaps you would like to record a show intro or an audio tour of your station. Even by sticking your name on my map of listenners at www.onairpodcast.co.uk/map will get you in the draw. It might be you have done an interview recently you wish to share to send it in. I am after your involvement in the podcast as I do it for you and if I do not have your support it is questionable whether I should continue or not.

See you in Newport if you are going - if not I hope to record some presentations and send up some recordings for you to listen to on the feed.

Matt

She was appearing at Perth Theatre in a Room 101 style event for the Radio Scotland programme “Let’s Do The Show Right Here”.

my thanks to John and hope you use it on your station if you would like.

Click here to listen or right click on it to download it

Thanks to Psquared for donating the presents/prizes to the On Air Podcast

www.psquared.net/nexus
www.frappr.com/onairpodcast
www.onairpodcast.co.uk
www.hbauk.co.uk/review

The 2nd Anniversary Podcast will be recorded live from 7.30pm on Wednesday 3rd October and you can join in via skype or your phone if you want.

You can call the show on 020 7870 1287 or skype me via ‘mattwade01′ during the recording and we’ll have you on to talk about your station or the podcast.

It should be fun so try to call in and take part. Details of a prize giveaway worth over £500 will also be given out.

Matt

Links to Items Mentioned in the Show:-
Barix - Streaming
HBA Website for Members

email me at onairpodcast@gmail.com

Music Track - Journey South - What I Love About Home
www.journey-south.co.uk

Stations Mentioned in the Show:-
Radio Victoria, Blackpool
Hemel Hospital Radio
Radio Glamorgan
Radio Cherwell
Radio Wishing Well
Ayr Hospital Radio
Bedrock

Links Mentioned:-
HBA Members Website - www.hbauk.co.uk/members/
On Air Podcast Fringe Festival Coverage and Interviews - www.onairpodcast.co.uk/fringe
Blake Morgan Music Track - www.blakemorgan.com

I shall be recording the new podcast number 27 tomorrow afternoon at 1pm Sunday 12th August. I will skypecast it so if you have skype and would like to either listen in or take part for free using skype then please join me then.

Head over to https://skypecasts.skype.com/skypecasts/skypecast/detailed.html?id_talk=3230195 for more details

You can add it into iTunes by clicking on the advanced menu - subscribe to podcast - and add in http://onairpodcast.libsyn.com/rss

Enjoy!

Details of the coverage we shall be doing for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007. Tom Foster will be our roving reporter. Check out and subscribe at www.onairpodcast.co.uk/fringe

To give you a taste of Tom’s Material he has recorded from the Hampton Court Flower Show for the podcast which you can use on your station. The recording is here to download in full

Links Mentioned in the Show
Facebook - www.facebook.com
Mid Downs Radio - http://www.mdr.org.uk/
Jubilee Hospital Radio - http://www.jubileeradio.org.gg/

Music from:-
Howard Jones - Revolution of the Heart - www.howardjones.com

We are just waiting for the press people to get back to Tom so he can get a ‘Press Pass’ for the On Air Podcast!

Enjoy!

Matt

Links Mentioned:-

HBA Website - http://www.hbauk.co.uk/
Soundings - http://www.soundings.org/

any feedback to me via e-mail at onairpodcast@gmail.com or call me on 020 7870 1287 if you have anything you want to add.

Links Mentioned

Hospital Broadcasting Association Website - www.hbauk.com
HR Barnet - http://www.hrb.org.uk/
Music from the Biddies - http://btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=242

Enhanced Version of the show has finished unless I get loads of requests
for it’s return - sorry folks but it helps speed up the process for me.

Hope to have a new podcast out soon. My laptop went away for repair but it’s back now so am all set to record number 24.

Check back soon - also please e-mail me if you use the enhanced version of the show and find it useful as I am thinking of dropping it to speed up production and just produce the .mp3 version. Email onairpodcast@gmail.com

Matt

Links to items mentioned in the Show:
Hospital Radio Basingstoke
Portsmouth Hospital Radio
Southampton Hospital Radio
HBA Website
Flickr site with HR Chelmsford Studio Fitout

Secondly… the company I use for Audio Hosting only gives me a 100mb limit a month and I used it up for the awards audio which has been downloaded 188 times as of today! I shall be releasing a podcast soon which will contain audio from the HBA Conference in Northampton. It will most probably be the recording of the OFCOM session.

anyway … in the meantime an application I have used has been made available for Windows as well as Mac which can be used for commercial and non commercial purposes. It is called The Levelator and it simply levels out any .wav or .aiff file. If you have perhaps recorded an interview with someone and the levels are a little poor. You simply open the application and drag the uncompressed file onto it and it will level it for you and stick it in the same directory the original file was in. It will not do anything to the original so if you don’t like it you still have your original file. Give it a go …. it’s free! You can find it at http://www.gigavox.com/levelator.
Let me know how you get on. Drop me an e-mail to onairpodcast@gmail.com

Call it a present to you whilst you wait for another podcast - Matt

I hope you enjoy it

Matt

Just saying sorry there hasn’t been a show for a while. I am extremely busy with both work and Hospital Radio Chelmsford move stuff.

We move hospitals and studios on the 29th March and most of my time outside of work has been taken up project managing this move in an attempt to mean the service will continue during the transition.

You can see some pictures of the area we are transforming in the OAP flickr feed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/23352803@N00/sets/72157594319733170/show/ they are after the couple of pictures of ‘wade’s wardrobe’ where I record the podcast when I have time.

There will be some recordings of the seminars done at the Conference plus hoping to record the awards ceremony again and put it out on the podcast.

take care - Matt - see you in Northampton once we have moved!!

AAC version on it’s way for the enhanced show

check out the website at www.onairpodcast.co.uk and call the show on 020 7870 1287.

Matt

Back to normal podcast soon!

I have now been back a week from the Falklands and will be sticking some photos in the right hand side of the site.

Am working on a podcast to release around the weekend containing my recordings I did on the AEQ PAW-120 handheld recorders from www.aequk.com

Matt

No show this week as I prepare to go to the Falkland Islands for work. I hope to record my trip and take some pictures which I will include in the enhanced show and link to on my flickr site.

Hope you all had a good new year and let’s hope 2007 is when the Podcast really kicks off.

Matt

With the introduction of the new enhanced version of the podcast I am after some new artwork to put into it.

I ideally would like a new piece of artwork for the On Air Podcast and the On Air Podcast Enhanced. They can be the same picture with just ‘enhanced’ added to it at the bottom.

The artwork needs to be 300 x 300 pixels and I would prefer if it didn’t have my face on it. I need artwork for Wade’s World, HBA News, Hospital Radio News, Feedback and Contact. They can be around the same theme with just different words at the bottom of them if that helps.

Anything in .jpg format would be welcomed.

ta and hope your Christmas was good - M

We talk about the new enhanced version of the podcast which you can now subscribe to via iTunes or by putting in your favourite podcatcher - feeds.feedburner.com/onairpodcastenhanced.

There is news from other Hospital Radio stations in the UK plus news from the Hospital Broadcasting Association.

Music Played:-
Geoff Smith - Christmas Huggin and Kissin
Natalie Brown - Jingle Bells
Venonza Records - Holy Night

Links Mentioned:-
Podzinger
HBA Website

Am working on the next episode of the OAP. The enhanced version is now subscribe-able in iTunes just do a search in the iTunes store for ‘matt wade’ and you should be in luck.

Make sure you sign up for the Christmas Radio Link-up if you are doing a programme over Christmas at your HR station. Head to http://www.christmasradiolinkup.co.uk

The next show will be with the audio from the HBA AGM and then there a Christmas Show in the works - stay subscribed!

This podcast will include my chats with those exhibitors at the trade show part of the Norwich Conference and some audio from the boat trip. Plus some HBA News and other ’stuff’

Feel free to have a look around and play some of the older archive podcasts from this page - you just need flash installed or just right click on the name of the podcast and save to your computer and play with Media Player.

The best thing to do if you have iTunes installed is to click on the itunes button on the right hand side to subscribe - It’s Free and it means you will get the shows automatically everytime I record another one.

I am due to be putting one together in the next two weeks as I have lots of editing to do with my conference recordings plus the start of the Enhanced podcast with pictures!

Enjoy the site and e-mail me via onairpodcast@gmail.com with any feedback.

M

We talk about the forthcoming HBA Conference in Norwich, play the presentation of the 61,000th request on HR Basingstoke plus much more.

We also played the two records I played on the first OAP from Brother Love and The Lascivious Biddies.

Please let me have any feedback!

You can get them to download by going to www.onairpodcast.co.uk/radioplays. There are two up there now and more will be added by the weekend.

Enjoy

There will not be a podcast this weekend as normal as I am going to be preparing for the anniversary programme. I have set up a Skypecast for the anniversary programme which will be recorded at 2030 on the 3rd October and you can join in on the recording live by having skype on your computer with a microphone attached. If you click on the name of this post you will go to the skypecast website where you can find out more - you will need a skype account and a broadband connection for this to work. You can call the programme as well on the night using the number below.

If you can’t join us for this programme or have a question please send in an audio comment to either onairpodcast@gmail.com or skype the show using the name ‘mattwade01′ or call 020 7870 1287 and leave a message.

If you would like to be interviewed for the programme in advance let me know and I will arrange a time for the interview. In the next few days I shall be releasing Bruce Shakespeares Radio Plays from Radio Cherwell which you can use on your station. Look out for those.

Matt

We also play two great tracks suggested to me by Lynn Parsons great podcast ‘The Red Light Zone’.

MUSIC
Adrienne Pierce - One Perfect Day
Ainslie Henderson - Dust

Links to people/websites mentioned in the podcast:-

www.hrbasingstoke.co.uk
www.onairpodcast.co.uk/map

Music
Geoff Smith - Not On The Radio
Laura Clapp - Let It Rain

We have an interview with Bruce Shakespeare from Radio Cherwell about the radio plays he writes which he is offering to other HR stations.

We also mentioned http://www.countmeincalendar.info/

Podsafe Music from Rob Costlow - Semester Days

Just a quick update to say that OAP14 will be out after the 9th August when I return from my holidays to Cornwall.

Featured on the podcast will be an interview with Bruce Shakespeare from Radio Cherwell in Oxford about the Radio Plays he writes and produces. These plays will be available for all stations to use and I shall be producing a new sub domain for these to be hosted on so watch this space.

… other news to tell you. Have changed website host so hope to do some enhancements soon to the page. If you go to www.onairpodcast.co.uk/map you can visit the frappr map and stick your pin the map showing where you are listenning to the podcast from. Let me know your thoughts on the podcast and the website as to what you would like to see on it.

Don’t forget to tell your fellow HR colleagues about this podcast.

Matt

PODSAFE MUSIC: Slackstring - Wednesday Morning

Enjoy

Give you some HBA News and talk about why it’s taken me so long to produce another show.

PODSAFE MUSIC: Laura Clapp - Gotta be me

May even try to record it on my new Macbook laptop!

M

I am still here!

I hope to get a new podcast to you in the next week or so. Have an interview with Bruce from Radio Cherwell coming up so keep checking out the site. I am adding some new links to the right hand side over time too.

Cheers for now

M

On The Show I mentioned the reasons for the slackness on the podcast front. We played promos for two Audio Books - Ancestor and 7th Son. You can subscribe to them at Podiobooks.com

We talked Norwich Conference in Autumn - get your names down now!

Also I meet with Hugh Fraser from Storynory who welcomes HR stations to use his fairy tales and children stories. Check out his website.

Ruth Adley e-mailed the show with details of Walk for Crohns. More on their website

finally…. Jason from Radio Cherwell contacted us and we should be catching up with Bruce Shakespeare to find out about their radio dramas which will be available