Bryce Ives
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Bryce Ives (born 1983) is a community television host, radio host, producer and actor based in Melbourne Australia. Bryce spent his childhood and teenage years living in Ballarat. Bryce is the General Manager of Melbourne's Student Youth Network Inc (SYN), a unique youth based community media organisation.
The The Australian newspaper wrote in 2004 “If Graham Kennedy was the king of live variety then Bryce Ives must be a prince in training or something of a court jester.” [1]
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[edit] Community Media Sector
Bryce has been involved in the community broadcasting sector for ten years. He sits on the National Committee of the CBAA (Community Broadcasting Association of Australia.) [2] and has been a board member of the association for the past three years. The CBAA is the peak body for community radio and television stations. The organisation provides leadership, advocacy and support for the Australian community broadcasting sector. Bryce has also previously served as a board member and Chairman of NYMN - The National Youth Media Network and for a short time was a board member of SYN - The Student Youth Network Inc.
[edit] SYN
Bryce is currently employed as the General Manager of the The Student Youth Network Inc (SYN), Melbourne. SYN is a leading example of youth participation in the media and the broader community. [3] The Student Youth Network Inc. (SYN) aims to provide young people with opportunities, access and training. SYN currently manages and operates a full-time Melbourne-wide community radio station (90.7 SYN-FM), produces 5 hours a week of live community television broadcast on Channel 31 Melbourne, publishes a quarterly magazine (Pecado) and maintains a full-time internet presence (www.syn.org.au). Bryce has been the General Manager of SYN for two years. SYN is one of the largest youth media organisations in the world, and is recognised as being one of Australia's leading youth participation projects.
He served as a SYN Board Member form 2003, until gaining full-time employment at SYN in 2004. Bryce has demonstrated a significant capacity for community media promotion, funding and support. His enthusiasm for the organisation and his considerable vision for its potential have made him an ideal representative of the organisation. Before being employed at SYN, Bryce was employed by the Melbourne Community Television Consortium Ltd to oversee it’s youth programming, including launching the initiative 'SYN TV.'
[edit] Television
In 2002, Bryce was one of the hosts of 'Dawns Crack,' a cheap and cheerful mix of interviews, music and comedy with segments such as The Young and The Useless, a send-up of daytime soap, which aired live every Saturday morning on Channel 31 Melbourne. The show broadcast live from a make-shift studio in the heart of RMIT University, complete with a live studio audience. [4] The show was produced by Shona Devlin, who Bryce has met in 1998 on the ABC TV series 'Race around the Corner.
Ives was an integral part of a dynamic team of young television makers who created and sustained a number of large scale youth television programs on Australian community television. Bryce served as the Executive Producer of the Channel 31 programs ‘Pluck’ ‘Syn TV’ and ‘SYN City,’ and has produced over 1000 hours of live youth television programming on Australian Television.In 2004 Bryce’s television achievements and his contribution to the community television sector were nationally recognised when he was awarded ‘Television Producer of the Year’ at the annual CBAA Awards.
In 2004 and 2005 Bryce returned to hosting the television programs ‘Buskerama’ and ‘The Roaming Couch’ both for Channel 31 and Federation Square. Both programs were produced by Ron Frim and RMITV youth Television.
In 2006, Bryce was the host of the annual Antenna Awards alongside Stella Young from 'No Limits.' The awards were a live gala ceremony broadcast live from the BMW Edge at Federation Square. [5]
[edit] References
- ^ Sheena MacLean 23sep04 The Australian Newspaper Cyber generation calls tune, The Australian Newspaper. Retrieved 24th September, 2006
- ^ CBAA National CommitteeList of Committee Members. Retrieved 24th September, 2006
- ^ CBONLINE Article Educating and Training Through Syn. Retrieved 24th September, 2006
- ^ The Age, Dan Silkstone, April 14 2002 The end of 'crappy community TV. Retrieved 24th September, 2006
- ^ ARTSHUB Laura Kelly Channelling success: Why more people are switching on to Community TV by Laura Kelly. Retrieved 24th September, 2006
