The Radio School

1 TO 1 RADIO PRESENTER COURSES - PRESENTATION & PRODUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL RADIO

 The Radio School, Lucas Media, Staplehurst, Kent. TN12 OLD.  Tel: 01580 893859.    E MAIL

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RADIO STUDIO IN KENT -TALK & MUSIC PROGRAMMING FOR RADIO AND TV

If you'd like to book a studio for any kind of recording or "live" transmission or for a contributor to a programme, then you can hire our Kent studio by the hour. We also offer facilities for talk and self operational music DJ presenter programmes too. We're based in Staplehurst, Kent.
   
The studio can be hired with or without an instructor/producer. You'll find our studios cosy and geared up for recorded and or "live" transmissions. We have ISDN and broadband links for 2 way radio interviews or "live" broadcasts to other stations. We currently air 1 National radio programme per week and various shows for other radio stations too. Including BBC Radio 5, BBC 3 Counties Radio, BBC Radio Kent, Fusion Radio, LBC talk radio (London), Solar Radio, TKO FM (Costa Blanca Spain), Valle Radio & TV (South East Spain) Fresh FM (Spain) Trust Radio (South East Spain). We regularly supply SKY TV with radio programming for different channels.

£85 per hour. No VAT charged.
Tel: 01580 893859. 
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We offer full audio digital editing facilities, studio lounge and office for programme preparation for either recorded or "live" programming. You and your guests will be well catered for with lunch supplied if required. Bottled water and other refreshments also provided. With our studio hire we're close to good restaurants, pubs and shops. We offer an excellent Green Room with log fire, wine and spirits if required. We can supply studio producer for all studio sessions booked.

We're less than 1 hour from London with great road links M25/M20/M2 links. Close to Euro-tunnel connections too. London 1 hour by train from Charing Cross (approx 2 an hour both ways). Leeds Castle & Sissinghurst Castle both 15 minutes away by road. We're based in Staplehurst village on the A229, south of county town Maidstone. Good overnight accommodation close to our studios too. Great parking at our studios & office.
 

Studio equipment
We use Soundcraft SAC 200 series broadcast desks with split transmission
Rode/AKG Microphones
Yellow Tec VIP Digital Voice Processor
Sonifex YH-02 Telephone Hybrid (for phone in shows)
Twin Denon CD Players
Alesis effects unit
Alesis 3630 compressor unit
Digitech effects unit
Aphex 204 big bottom processor
Tascam Pro mini disk unit
Various program play out systems including; Simian, OTS DJ, Stinger
2 Hard drives
Streaming facilities
ISDN facilities (for "live" radio programmes in quality)
SKY TV in studio
Audio news feeds
Guest AKG & sennheiser microphones
2 JVC DAT recorders
2 Revox Pro reel to reel tape machines
Full analogue editing area
Sony 4 track tape machine
Portable mini disk recorders
Digital editing (adobe audition/cool edit pro)
Marantz portable tape recorders
voice over facilities
Voice tracking studio
Mission and Spendor BC monitoring
Studio web cam (if required)
Show prep material
1 studio producer and tech op if required (BBC trained studio manager)

 

The Radio School is a trading name of Lucas Media International Limited. 
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