Our second broadcast with "Still Rockin"

Here is the second programme we produced for Norman Jay.  This was broadcast on March 31st.






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The News in English for the last week in March.





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March, Institute Roquetes Radio Online with La Cala RTV

This month we have been very fortunate.  We have been able to get in touch with Norman Jay and start a project with him for taking our news and broadcasting it via La Cala RTV radio.

Norman is British man resident in Ametlla de Mar and he produces a radio programme on La Cala RTV called "Still Rockin".  He presents the programme in English and plays English music from the 50s and 60s.  After we talked he agreed that we could produce the News in English for his programme and he would incorporate it and then it would be broadcast as part of his programme which goes out twice over the weekend for all the English language speaking  residents in and around Ametlla.

This programme is the first one we produced for him.  It is also special becuase for this programme we prepared a new format which includes a new introduction and a sound bed downloaded from the internet.  I think the sound of the programme is now much more professional.





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The News in English February 2

This week the recording sounds a lot better.  The recording is clean and crisp but I think someone has been playing with the settings on our recording programme.  When the readers are not reading the recording jumps to cut out the spaces.  I will have to change this.

A lot of nerves for this recording, mainly from Christian.  Still the students, again third years, read well.  At one point you can here the announcements on the school loudspeakers.

The News in English February 1

News on the water shortages in Jesus and other topics.
I give the students the text one or two days before the recording but even with this their pronunciation is sometimes not good.  On a positive side the pieces of news are long but the students read them very well.

There is, I think, a case for making each item shorter.

The students reading are from the third year, Sabina, Erika, Christian and Patricia.

Second broadcast

In this the second edition of "The News in English", made at the end of January, we did indeed have some technical difficulties.  When I came to edit it there was a nasty buzz on the recording that we didn't hear during the recording.

On inspecting the equipment I think the buzz originates in the MP3 cable that runs from the mixer table to the computer.  It will have to be changed.

First edition January 2012

This is the first edition of "The News in English" from Institute Roquetes Radio Online.

For this first recording I have counted on the cooperation of the students participating in the optional subject I teach at Roquetes.  For this reason we made two recordings of the same selection of news items.  This first recording was largely experimental to test the set up of the equipment and the students' reactions to it.  Another question that needed to be addressed was the question of content and length.