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Activities of the Centre for Broadcasting History ResearchPast and present activities of the centre include: Charles Parker Day In its first year the Centre established an annual radio features conference based on the work of the producer, Charles Parker, who was born in Bournemouth. The Charles Parker Day Conference is now an event established in the national radio conference calendar. Central Southern England Independent Local Radio 1975-1986 Digitisation The project is to digitally preserve and catalogue from speech recordings from local commercial stations operating within the central southern region of the United Kingdom between 1975 and 1986. That material in its analogue form resides in the Wessex Film and Sound Archive at the Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, and represents a style and structure of commercial broadcasting now gone forever. Additionally, it chronicles significant social events within the region, making it of intrinsic historical value to both local and national scholars and broadcasters. Southern Broadcasting History Group Hugh Chignell assumed the role of co-ordinator of this group and a meeting took place in May 2004 with representatives from Royal Holloway College and Reading University and The Media School. The most recent meeting was held in November, and included representatives from 5 different HEIs, at which a mission statement was drafted and a collaborative research application planned. BBC Written Archive Digitisation Project A commercial venture with BBC Archives and Microform Academic Publishers, of which Hugh Chignell is series editor. There is potential for mutual activity eg making CD versions of parts of the BBC archive available to our students. The next Microform project is to film BBC audience data from the 1930s which reflects the BHG interest in historical audiences and reception. IRN Archive This collection of 7,000 tapes was acquired by Professor Sean Street for the School through negotiations with the Chrysalis Radio Group, owners of LBC. It is now the subject of major funding by JISC enabling digitisation and provision of academic access by Spring 2009. See Track record. |
  
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