Directory: TV & RADIO PRODUCTION
RADIO BROADCASTERS
:: BBC Radio Stoke - the excellent BBC local community & music station, reaching a third of the population of North Staffordshire every week.
:: 6 Towns Radio - based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Signal 1 FM
:: Cross Rhythms City Radio - a community station for Stoke-on-Trent & Newcastle-under-Lyme, with a Christian ethos. Broadcasting on 101.8FM. Employs 13 people and has 25 volunteers. In 2005 they won a rare full-time 5-year broadcasting license.
:: Moorlands Radio - based in Leek, Staffordshire Moorlands.
:: UCB - professional web-based Christian radio broadcaster, based in Stoke-on-Trent.
:: One Media Group (OMG) is Staffordshire University's student-managed media station, available via radio, television and online.
:: Knot FM - a community radio station based out of the YMCA in Hanley. Knot FM... "broadcasts 24x7 both seasoned broadcasters and residents of the YMCA".
:: Smart Radio.
TV BROADCASTERS
Stoke-on-Trent is in the BBC West Midlands region, operating out of Birmingham.
SPECIALISTS
:: Eclipse Broadcast - broadcast technical experts based on the Parkhouse Industrial Site at Newcastle-under-Lyme.
BROADCAST EFFECTS, MUSIC, & IDENTS
:: SMA Studios - a highly-experienced character-based animation studio, creating work for commercials, TV, and features. Based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.
:: Steve England - based in Leek. Radio station jingles, voice-overs and sound FX. See also: s2Blue radio station branding.
:: All4One Music - provides production music for film, TV, video productions and websites.
:: Nick Balmforth - specialist in voiceovers.
:: Audio Graphix - radio jingle producers.
TRAINING
:: Cross Rhythms Media Training Community.
LOCATIONS
:: UK Film Location - a service based at Blythe Bridge near Stoke-on-Trent. They offer a directory of 600+ locations in the UK, with over 150 in the Midlands.
:: Stallington Hall Farm - a Tudor/Georgian film-shooting location in Blythe Bridge, Stoke-on-Trent. The venue is also available for stills photography.
EXHIBITION
:: Stoke-on-Trent has the Film Theatre - a 212-seat purpose-built art-house cinema. The cinema is always fully open to the public. It is not limited to university students.
:: Stoke-on-Trent's Potteries Museum & Art Gallery has a large raked auditorium and fixed projection screen.
EDITING FACILITIES
(See also: Creative Stoke's Film listings)
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