Bradley Stoke Radio (BSR) welcomed a special guest to its Brook Way premises on Saturday 17th November to officially open its reconfigured studio space. Casualty extra Paul Anderson, nicknamed ‘Oscar’ after the porter role he has played in the BBC hospital drama for over 30 years, cut a ribbon in the reconfigured ‘studio 1’ (broadcast studio) to declare the new
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By Andy Ward, chair of board of directors, BSR. Bradley Stoke Radio (BSR) has been operating in one form or another since 2011 and broadcasting as a full-time FM station since September 2013 when we were awarded a five-year licence on 103.4FM. The station is a not-for-profit community group which operates on an entirely voluntary basis and is open to
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Local musicians and bands are being given the opportunity to showcase their talents during August, thanks to the Willow Brook Centre and Bradley Stoke Radio. Willow Brook has joined forces with the community radio station to launch Bradley Stoke’s Got Music. The competition is open to singers, musicians or bands with members over 14 years of age who live in the
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Bradley Stoke Radio (BSR) has begun broadcasting on FM, nearly two years after being offered a full-time licence by Ofcom. The community radio station previously broadcast on FM for two short periods in June and December 2011, under a Restricted Service Licence (RSL), and since then has been streaming programmes over the internet. Based at the Brook Way Activity Centre,
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Get yourselves onto the Bradley Stoke Radio (BSR) website to vote for who you think deserves the prize for sports achievement of the year. The results will be read out on the BSR Sport Show on 6th January. The competition has been split into two different categories, the team award and the individual award. Nominees for the Team Award Bradley
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Bradley Stoke residents of all ages are being invited to help design the town’s own fully-playable community video game during a 48-hour ‘game-jam’ at the Willow Brook Centre this weekend. The ‘VGM-a-thon’ is being organised by the team behind Bradley Stoke Radio’s VGM Awesome show, broadcast weekly on Monday nights between 8pm and 10pm, which focuses on the music tracks
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A meeting of the Southern Brooks Area Forum in Patchway this evening (Tuesday 4th September) will discuss grant applications from two Bradley Stoke organisations. Area Forums, organised by South Gloucestershire Council (SGC), give local people the opportunity to talk about issues and concerns that affect their neighbourhoods. They champion local needs and aspirations and gather the views of residents about
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Volunteers at Bradley Stoke Radio are today celebrating the award of a full-time FM licence from the broadcasting regulator Ofcom. The local group is one of four community radio stations that were successful in the south-west region, from a total of seven applicants. Neighbouring station GLOSS FM (formerly Thornbury FM) also applied for a full-time licence but was rejected due
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Bradley Stoke Radio has begun its second FM transmission period – running from Saturday 3rd December to Saturday 17th December. A countdown in the Town Square at noon on Saturday [audio clip] was followed by a two-hour programme with guest appearances from the presenters who will be fronting shows over the next fortnight. The station staged it first FM transmission
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Bradley Stoke Radio is feeling festive right now with the news that Ofcom has granted the station an FM broadcast licence for a two week period in December. From 3rd to 17th December the station will be broadcasting on 87.7 FM to the local community – and beyond. The team are already planning the schedule and have dusted off the
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