[rfu-membership] New slots vacant [was Re: [Rfu-station] Station Update April 22, 2008]

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

Judy,

Thanks for letting me know, and thanks for your time with the  
station. Hopefully your schedule will permit you to get involved with  
the station again at some point in the future.

Membership: we have two new open slots, Sunday 3-5pm and Tuesday  
8-10am. Coupled with the Wed 8-10pm slot (which I don't think anyone  
came forward to fill) we've a number of new openings in the schedule.

Further to our discussion last Saturday, I'd be interested in us  
using this opportunity to think about how we want our schedule to  
develop - I know I've a number of ideas in this regard, and I'm sure  
others do too. Obviously our current rules first give existing groups  
a chance to switch into an open slot, but I wonder if we could then  
step back and think about how our overall schedule might look, and  
how we might encourage/foster future changes in that direction.

Some ideas:
- Keeping various timeslots open, as we already do for Saturday  
evening simulcasts, for special programming. We're already using some  
of the Saturday afternoon slots for the once-off outreach shows in  
May and June. Perhaps we could look at more of that.
- Creating multi-hour blocks of similar shows, or strips of similar  
shows across days. Examples: Creating a 'public affairs' block/strip  
of local programming, or a block/strip of religious content. Much  
religious programming is currently scheduled in the mornings, while  
public affairs content is distributed in late afternoons and some  
evening slots. The syndicated public affairs block currently airs  
4-8pm when there's no local programming.
- Ensuring that local programming happens in long blocks, with  
automated programming also happening in blocks.

Incidentally, the website is back in order.

Andrew

On 22 Aib 2008, at 14:08, Judygran6 at aol.com wrote:

> Hey Andrew this is Judy Grant (higher praise, and Word and Song) I  
> will no longer be at the radio to do these segments any more and i  
> thought i would let you know first. That Sunday 3-5pm and Tuesday  
> 8am-10am is now open. Thanks
>
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Andrew Ó Baoill
Station Manager
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