Directory: TV & RADIO PRODUCTION

 
     _{RADIO STATIONS}

::  BBC Radio Stoke - the excellent BBC local community & music station, reaching a third of the population of North Staffordshire every week.

::  Signal 1 FM - commercial music station.

::  Cross Rhythms City Radio - a Community station for Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme with a Christian ethos. Broadcasting on 101.8FM. Employs 13 people and has 25 volunteers. In 2005 they won a rare full-time 5-year broadcasting license.

::  UCB - professional satellite & web-based Christian radio broadcaster, based in Stoke-on-Trent.

Stoke-on-Trent has a new set of digital stations run by TWG Emap Digital, launched Summer 2004. BBC Radio Stoke is also now available on the new digital radios.

(See also: Stoke-on-Trent Amateur Radio Society.)

     _{TV BROADCASTERS}

Stoke is in the BBC West Midlands region, operating out of Birmingham.

Stoke is covered by Central TV, operating out of Nottingham and Birmingham.

     _{BROADCAST EFFECTS, MUSIC, & IDENTS}

::  SMA Studios - a highly-experienced character-based animation studio, creating work for commercials, TV, and features. Based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Steve England - based in Leek. Radio station jingles, voice-overs and sound FX. See also: s2Blue radio station branding.

     _TRAINING

::  The University of Keele: Continuing & Professional Education. Offers short courses in the local community, which includes 'Scriptwriting for Stage, Screen and Radio'.

::   Longton High - City Learning Centre, Stoke-on-Trent. They have "a fully operational T.V studio", and can provide Apple Mac training, and animation training.

(See also: Screen West Midlands, the regional TV, film & video production development agency.)

     _LOCATIONS

::  Stallington Hall Farm - a Tudor/Georgian film-shooting location in Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent. The venue is also available for stills photography.

     _EXHIBITION

::  Stoke-on-Trent has the Film Theatre - a 212-seat purpose-built art-house cinema. The cinema is always fully open to the public; it's not limited just to University students.

     _{EDITING FACILITIES}

(See also: Creative Stoke's Film listings)