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Oystermouth Radio ~ Ystumllwynarth Radio

Community On Brink Of Quality Internet Radio

After almost a year of toil and perseverance, planning and execution, Oystermouth Radio, the new internet community radio station for Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula is ready to go.

The enthusiastic, talented team, led by Peter Tremewan are itching to get started in the now fully fitted studio which is complete and ready for use.

Dunns Lane Studio and Langland Bay Golf

The excellent Paul Stephens has been appointed as programme controller and he will co-ordinate the whole range of programming which is being planned. This will include local news, sport, the promotion of local activities and groups and, in these challenging times; Oystermouth Radio is particularly keen to lend its support to local businesses, tourism and leisure activities in the area. Music programming, both live and recorded, will also feature strongly in the schedules, especially local musicians, singers and choirs.

One of the latest Mumbles Development Trust media projects, Oystermouth Radio is now administering the costly process of obtaining all the necessary production licences that will allow the community to enjoy a full range of quality programming. The Dunns Lane based online community radio station is also currently installing a high quality streaming internet connection. This will ensure that Mumbles can share in the many varied listening choices that will be on offer – interruption free.

Owen Martin: Vital Technical and Creative Skill

When these steps are completed (over the next couple of weeks) some limited test broadcasting of a few hours a day will commence, which will gradually increase, leading to a full service of around 15 hours a day by the turn of the year.

Anyone with an interest in this project, and who may like to be involved, is invited to make contact through studio@oystermouthradio.com. Help is needed in presenting, programming, interviewing, administration and many other areas.

A fund-raising quiz night is planned for Wednesday 7^th December at Langland Bay Golf Club and for further details of the event and more about Oystermouth Radio visit their Website here www.oystermouthradio.com

Joel Bennett was talking to Oystermouth Radio spokesman Peter Tremewan

The clock is ticking loudly and rapidly to the much awaited launch of the community's premiere online radio station.

Oystermouth Radio are partners with Mumbles Matters Magazine and both organisations are looking forward to sharing their resources, as the Mumbles Development continues to strive to bring to the Mumbles community the most complete and comprehensive public service.

Watch this Website for further information and we promise to bring you all the news concerning this exciting new service as it breaks. 

Sneak Oystermouth Radio Preview

You can hear an early Podcast recorded last week where Mumbles Development Trust are under the spotlight on Deb Evan’s Arts Show. We hope to bring you more from Oystermouth Radio here at Mumbles Matters as our sister project busy themselves getting ready for the forthcoming launch. You can hear this fascinating live interview here http://mumblesmatters.com/dynamic-page.htm

Volunteering With Oystermouth Radio

This new and exciting MDT initiative is an online audio project (an internet radio station) which serves the Mumbles Community and beyond. We are out of the Genesis stage of the project and with our Website all ready to go we are busy recruiting volunteers who may wish to work in Broadcasting, Resaearch, Interviewing, Studio Management, Producing and all the back room stuff which is essential for the smooth running of Mumbles first Community Radio station with the possibility of FM broadcasting always on the horizon.

First, we need to get the product (Radio Oystermouth) right and this is where you, our bright new face comes in to help us achieve this.

Whatever your skill level, experience and indeed non - experience you are more welcome to join a great fun environment and a project within a Trust which is really going places.

We are a complete community service so we would love to hear from ALL community members regardless of your taste. Whether it’s in music, chat, current affairs, sport and entertainment or maybe there is something that we have not got in our programming schedule that you would like to start up yourself.

The world’s your Oyster (mouth)!

Radio Oystermouth has its own purpose built studio at the MDT Headquarters in Dunns Lane and it is there where our broadcasting, in house interviewing and administration takes place.

There is always something to do at Radio Oystermouth and we offer training at facilities and with equipment which is improving and building all the time.

Mumbles Community Media Alliance

Mumbles Development Trust media projects Mumbles Matters and Oystermouth Radio are celebrating a partnership that will provide the Mumbles Community with high quality news and entertainment through their respective Website's it was revealed today.

Peter Tremewan (left) and Joel Bennett with every right to be happy

Mumbles Matters has been operating as an online community magazine for four weeks, after spending just shy of six months, setting up a state of the art, fully interactive service for the Mumbles community. Oystermouth Radio, headed by Mumbles Development Trust Director Peter Tremewan and fellow Oystermouth Radio Director's Paul Stephens and Malcolm Poole are within a couple of weeks of launching an online community radio service for the people of Mumbles.

Setting up a radio project is a complex process and Oystermouth Radio have now overcome the many difficulties that were placed before them and are more than confident of a positive reaction and involvement from the Mumbles community and beyond as they seek to provide a rich blend of news, chat, music and entertainment.

Mumbles Development Trust Development Officer, Joel Bennett, is the sole Project Director for Mumbles Matters and is over the moon with the thirty - one Volunteers and Contributors who have helped make the online community magazine such an immediate success within the community and further afield as its Website now attracts around 300 visitors each week.

Around about the same amount of people will initially volunteer for Oystermouth Radio and as both projects have been finding their feet, searching for ways to maximise their resources, in order to provide the entertainment that the people of Mumbles deserve, they decided to share their many resources.

Mumbles Development Trust projects, of which there are nine in total, often work alongside one another and while these two media projects will remain separate entities they are very close in terms of the content that they wish to share with the public and in the roles of which their many volunteers are encouraged to explore.

The future looks extremely promising for both projects and the Mumbles Development Trust are delighted at the progress which is being made. The stronger these two projects are means the strength of the Mumbles Development Trust increases and all this put together makes Mumbles an even better place to work, rest and play in.

For further information on volunteering with the Mumbles Development or any of its projects visit the organisations Web site on or for specific opportunities with Mumbles Matters visit www.mumblesmatters.com or for Oystermouth Radio its www.oystermouthradio.com