WHAT SORT OF PROGRAMMES CAN YOU EXPECT?
The nature of the proposed service would be one that provides output tailored to the local community and its interests. The approach will be to focus attention on local issues, activities, local history, local sport and incorporate them in the general programming in such a way that programmes are entertaining as well as informative. The objective will always be one of raising the communities awareness of how they can be involved in the things that go on around them. The broad format would be presenter lead programmes containing a mixture of speech and music with features, guests and discussions along the way. There will also be dedicated speech based community programmes incorporated within the schedule.
St Helens has a distinct character of its own. Although only 12 miles away from Liverpool where most of our radio comes from, the history of the area and its people is radically different. Given that it will be these same people who are making the programmes it is they who will reflect those differences through the content of their programmes.
- Radio Together will focus heavily on output tailored to our local community, more like a local newspaper, concentrating on local issues that affect people. It will feature local music, local artistes, local writers, people who might otherwise not get the opportunity of having their work broadcast by any other station.
Here are some samples of what the programmes may look like.
Together @ Breakfast
Monday – Friday 08:00 – 11:00 am
60% music 40% speech
Style -: friendly, entertaining and informative.
The programme will feature an upbeat mix of popular music along with hits from the 70s and 80s, alongside local artists and indie bands from St Helens and local colleges and schools all blended around local news, sport, weather, what’s on features and entertainment reviews for St Helens.
IRN bulletins -: 8:00 9:00 10:00 & 11:00 am (3) minutes duration.
Local News & Sport Bulletins* -: 9:30 & 10:30 am (3) minutes duration followed by Together Weather.
News items for local bulletins will be supplied on a daily basis from the St Helens Star, St Helens Reporter and community information received from the public through email etc.
Traffic & Travel - : 8:20, 8:50, 9:20 am (2) minutes duration.
Will feature travel information for people travelling from St Helens only using buses trains or their own vehicles.
Accident black spots will be constantly monitored and supplied by Merseyside Police.
Speech Features include.
Monday’s only 10:15am (5) minutes duration
Thought for the week. Delivered by a vicar, clergyman, or lay preacher from various churches, will encompass all religions and designed to cover various thought provoking weekly topics without a political angle to them.
Sport’s News on Radio Together will focus highly on localness*.
The presenter will also be “talking up” the day ahead on Radio Together making the public know who is likely to be the guest’s of the following programme between 11:00 & 2:00pm and will invite the community to email questions that they would like to ask the guest.
Together feedback throughout the breakfast show will allow listeners to have their say on local issues news stories that affect them through a series of vox pops that will be broadcast live to air and the station will showcase talent from local schools in the form of audio packages related to a subject locally and of specific interest locally.
Friday’s only 10:30 (10) minutes duration.
What’s on guide supplied by St Helens Theatre Royal along with an interview from a celebrity appearing there.
Arts review from The Citadel and Cineworld films listings and competitions.
* St Helens is predominantly a Rugby League based town and St Helens RLFC will be the main stay of our sport bulletins, we aim to cover football results from St Helens Town AFC’s weekend games and throughout the summer attention will turn to local crown green bowling, tennis, cricket and amateur rugby union club games.