OSCAR Radio

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OSCAR Radio

Type	Part of Oundle School
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Oundle School, UK
Industry	British Radio
Website	[1]

OSCAR Radio is a school radio station established in Oundle School, Oundle, Northamptonshire, England. It is one of the longest running school radio stations in England, and is broadcast on both the FM frequency range as well as via the internet during each of its broadcasts. It makes use of the UK Restricted Service License (RSL) to broadcast to the local community for up to 6 weeks a year.

1 History
2 OSCAR Radio today
3 Pupil Managing Directors
4 Adult Station Controllers
5 External link

[edit] History

It was founded in September 1997, when a group of teachers and pupils presented the case for a school radio station to the School senior management team. This was after a consultant had visited the school to assess its suitability for hosting such an ambitious project. After the the presentation it was agreed that monies raised by the Oundle School Foundation could be used to set up the project. In January 1998, £70,000 was transferred to the school, and a contract with a radio installation company was given to install a radio control room, a newsroom, and a recording studio ready for a launch in November 1998.

The name OSCAR Radio was chosen by Fleur Swaney, the first female Head of School; it stood for Oundle School Community and Action Radio, although today OSCAR is the name in full.

OSCAR Radio was granted its first RSL License to broadcast for 28 days on November 14th 1998. Samantha Griffiths was the first Managing Director and Lucy Newman (OO) was the first station controller. Since then the station has broadcast for a total of seventeen RSLs with the next one due in May 2007.

[edit] OSCAR Radio today

OSCAR Radio is currently undergoing its annual change of management, with the new Managing Directors (Anna Budgett and Harry Proctor) interviewing for the new Board of Directors. This Board will be active until the end of 2007, and will be responsible for two broadcasting periods. About 200 pupils take part in OSCAR Radio in various roles: technician, presenter, newsreader, manager, director, sales and marketing, and others.

During OSCAR's broadcast period the station broadcasts live between 7.30-8.30am, and 5pm-10.30pm every day. At other times it broadcasts music and repeats of shows. Pupils at the school are responsible for both the day-to-day running of the station and the quality of the radio broadcasts. It gives them the opportunity to take part in a 'real world' project whilst at school.

[edit] Pupil Managing Directors

1998	Samantha Griffiths
1999	Holly Davies	Robin Banerjee	James Griffiths
2000	Alex Jackson	Paul Monk	Stuart Whiting
2001	Seema Yallamanchilli	Jack Ream
2002	Natalie Grogan	Alex Morrell
2003	Sandy Rowell
2004	Hannah Glover	Alex Davies
2005	Patricia Walsh	Lewis Bretts
2006	Sophie Tamlyn	Nicholas Denny
2007	Harry Proctor	Adrian Kwok	Anna Budgett

[edit] Adult Station Controllers

1998	Lucy Newman (OO)
1999	Lucy Newman (OO)	Samantha Griffiths (OO)
2000	Samantha Griffiths (OO)	Annie Griffiths
2001	Annie Griffiths
2002	Annie Griffiths
2003	Pupils took control