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Launch of Creative FM community broadcast

Is a the high point of many months of planning and preparation by around 300 people involved in Huddersfield's community radio station organised by Beaumont Street Studios.

The station, which has been granted a temporary licence by the radio authority will be playing programmes to suit everyone living in Huddersfield over the next two weeks. These include youth and arts programmes, local bands, programmes in Urdu and Punjabi, programmes covering disability, sports, celebrities, music, quizzes, competitions. This is not professional presenters talking to local people. This is local people talking about their own lives and stories.

The station runs from the basement of Beaumont Street Studios in St Peter's Street with a link aerial to the main transmitter on Oldgate House, Council offices in the centre of town.

"If Huddersfield were nice and flat, then everyone within a 10 mile radius would be able to pick up the signal. But with so many hills, the reception will be patchy" said Kuldip Singh, the station manager. However, even those on the wrong side of a hill will be able to pick up the station if they have an internet link as the station is also webcasting on www.creativefm.net

Alien Nation records interviews with people around Huddersfield who believe they have been abducted by aliens. Or join Myra and Jeanne, the Two Odd Ladies for a daily dose of gentle music and lively chat. Asian Connection includes programmes made by ladies of many ages living in Huddersfield and will be in a mixture of English, Urdu and Punjabi. Unsigned showcases young musicians and bands from Huddersfield and Workers Playtime goes in to local businesses and talks to the people who work there.

In addition, as a brand new initiative, Beaumont Street Studios is running a live broadcast from the Huddersfield Carnival and Mela on the 12th and 13th July respectively.

The radio broadcast builds on six months of training courses and provides trainees with live experience of running a station. The courses and the station are funded by the Community Fund and Yorkshire Forward and are free to anyone living in the Kirklees area who is unemployed.