Anderton Tiger Broadcaster
live school radio solution
What's New:
September 2010
Eight new Broadcaster School Radio Stations are being delivered this month; our best month ever and proof that Educators believe in the transformational power of Live School Radio. Designed completely around what young people told us they wanted and not the old kit that the radio industry doesn't want anymore, we have proved the value of Student Voice. We warmly welcome our new customers and wish them well with their live School Radio Broadcasts. Live School Radio has Never Been This Much Fun!
Jon
Christos
The brilliant singer and fellow broadcaster joined Russell at Monton Green
Primary School in Eccles for a Live Radio Show with YR5/YR6 at the end of last
term if you missed the live show, listen again here
The WOSCAR's at Wolverhampton University, Podcasts of the live
Radio Broadcast that was heard by nearly 2000 people from across Europe is
available here
Sir
Bob Geldof was Russell's live radio show guest! Russell's
latest Learning & Teaching in the C21st Live Show was broadcast from the
E2BN Conference
in Wyboston, featuring
special guests Prof. Stephen Heppell, Gareth Mills and the delightful Sir Bob
Geldof. The show went out live at 4.30 on Tuesday 29th June but you can
hear it again here as a Podcast
Current News:
Exhibitions this Term
September 2010
School Radio Equipment
Russell is out and about at lots of events in September showing The Anderton Tiger Broadcaster, if you have an urgent request to see a
demonstration, we are here 7 days a week from 10am to 10pm and would be delighted to visit for
a personal demonstration.
Please contact us
for more information
Next
Live Radio Show Find out when Russell is hosting his next Live Radio Show
and how you can participate live by Text, Email, Twitter and the Telephone.
Recent Events:
Good Morning America
September 2010
Russell was a guest of Uri Geller on his Good Morning America Radio Show,
broadcast live on the day, you can listen again to this Podcast of the show
here, with kind permission from Mr Geller.
Russell's recommended reads for this term
This
title has been around for a couple of years if you missed it, now's the time to
read it. How to break all the rules and get away with it, Russell loves
this book. Once you pick it up you just can't put it down, Richard writes
with such passion. A great short read.
Richard Gerver's "Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today" foreword by Sir Ken
Robinson - this is a brilliant read. "The Element: How Finding
Your Passion Changes Everything" by Sir Ken Robinson also highly
recommended, this book will give you the feeling that you can tackle anything,
this book could just change everything!
Russell has also updated his recommended technology list for the Autumn Term
with a review of his new iPad, a brilliant new app called
Tune-In Radio, and the Roberts WM 202 Portable Wi-Fi Internet Radio
Check out the stuff here
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An Innovative Radio Broadcasting System for educators looking to engage learners with C21st ICT skills. A complete turnkey solution - everything in one portable system, easily moved from classroom to classroom or installed into a Studio Space.
This
is a LIVE School Radio Broadcasting System - created by Russell
Prue around the specific needs of young broadcasters. It
is portable and designed to be easily moved around an education
establishment on a
flat surface. The system is digital and is packed with
ground-breaking technology that other suppliers haven't thought
of; the equipment breaks down and packs away
into three easily moved pieces, so off-site Outside Broadcasts
are simple and easy to manage and no one piece is too heavy to
move. After working with young people from all over the
country for two years on Live Radio Shows with lots of other
manufacturers' equipment, Russell felt compelled to design his
own that was better and cheaper than comparable
solutions. While our competitors were asking teachers what
they wanted, we were asking children. By understanding
their specific needs we were able to setup a new company to make
our own solution. We aren't selling equipment that the
radio industry doesn't want anymore! This is the newest,
freshest approach to Live Radio and The Broadcaster is packed
with ground-breaking innovative technology.
At BETT
2010, Russell launched The Anderton Tiger
Broadcaster with a LIVE four day Radio Show featuring young
reporters from the National Education Network competition.
You can hear some of the best bits of this marathon broadcast in
our Podcasts
area. The Broadcaster has been specifically designed to
improve speaking & listening skills, motivate reluctant writers
and offer broadcasting opportunities to less confident pupils &
students. Everything is included to get started straight
away, there are over 150 Jingles already on the system and
streaming software has been installed and configured ready to
go. When we call The Broadcaster a Turnkey system, that's
exactly what we mean.
Nothing except children's
imagination needs to be added. You don't have to do
everything live, the system can of course make fabulous podcasts
too, but there is something magical about doing a live show.
When everything has to be right first time, learners appear to
put more effort in, achieve higher standards and this leads to a
rise in self esteem and every educator knows how important this
can be for learners. From the moment you first power-up
the system you will see how much careful thought has gone into
the design. Jingles can be looped during mid-playback at the touch of a
button, music tracks paused at anytime, the library
searched instantly and content dragged and dropped onto the
screen ready for playing. The Broadcaster works with the
commonest audio file formats, MP3 and WAV and doesn't insist on
exceptionally large loss-less file formats that some of our
competitors do. Ripping audio from a CD is quick and easy,
music can be loaded from any MP3 source without any fuss.
We have done everything possible to engage the highest number of
learners and not just those interested in a career in Radio
Broadcasting. The system is professional enough to give a
commercial radio station a run for their money, while at the
same time not being too complicated.
Wheelchair
users are easily accommodated as the twin 19” touch-screen
monitors swing out to the sides allowing access to the control
software and remote fader control. The system is height adjustable
and with On-Screen One-Touch-Auto-fade, running a
live show has never been easier. With just one touch each fader
can be automatically controlled and
what’s more, you can see the Flying-Faders actually move on the
traditional fader control desk. The Broadcaster comes with two
guest microphones and four guest headphones. There are
colour co-ordinated microphone windshields that match the fader
labels making it easy to see who is on each microphone.
The presenter's microphone is a high quality BeyerDynamic M99
product that gives an excellent professional sound to any
broadcaster.
A constant backup is maintained
at all times as everything is copied to a spare 500GB HD, music
can be
imported using the onboard CD/DVD writer. We couldn't
find any live show control software that was good enough, so
we wrote our own in-house specifically
with young people and inexperienced broadcasters in mind.
Our software comes with a year of online updates keeping you up to date with
the latest functionality. This system is unlike anything
else available and is exactly what young people need and not
what the radio industry thinks they need. Skype has been
seamlessly integrated into the software so that callers can be
put ON AIR and texts and messages received live during a show.
Skype to Skype calls are free so reporting from the playing
fields during a live game over the LAN will cost you
nothing. The additional 19" touch-screen monitor is also perfect for
script reading and writing, editing audio files, replying to
emails, blogging, sending Tweets all while at the same time
the show is being controlled from the other screen.
The
two audio monitor speakers are protected by a grill to prevent
straying fingers from entering the delicate speaker cones
and damaging them. The Broadcaster is built to last,
it is tough and can survive the bumps and knocks that good
classroom technology should be able to cope with. You
have the best of both worlds, portable and transportable and
also having the opportunity to install the same system at
desk-working height for a studio installation.
The Anderton Tiger
Broadcaster £10,995.00 plus VAT
delivery is free to mainland UK and includes an onsite
training day with
Schools Radio Broadcaster Russell Prue
For a complete under the Bonnet inspection please visit the
Specifications area
Live Radio has NEVER been this much FUN
As featured on the new
comparison website Innovate my school
"I would highly recommend that if you want to introduce
radio into your school
Broadcaster is the best on the market."
"I can honestly say
that I think the Radio Station might well be the most innovative
way of engaging
young people that I have come across in 34 years of teaching!"
For
customers looking to finance their Broadcaster purchase
we recommend Syscap - an Education Leasing
Company with a unique history of
supporting schools
Educational benefits of owning your own Radio Station
Develop speaking &
listening skills
Enhance collaboration
Improve problem solving skills
Expand literacy
Extend out of hours support with programmes before & after
school
Enhance your cross-curricular use of ICT
Celebrate success by extending your broadcasts into the
community so parents can listen too
Develop MFL & Community Language support
The Accessory Tray, it is
easy to see if you have everything when you pack it up
Interested ? What to do next:
Download our A5 flyer in PDF
here
If you would like to see for
yourself how having your own Radio Station
could impact on learning & teaching please
contact us for details of our FREE
demonstration workshop hosted by Russell Prue. Held at your
establishment and with your SLT and
Learners participating, Russell will create and AIR a
live show based on a current themed learning
activity or on current news, weather and
sports stories.
Call Sarah 0845 838 5150
customer.services@andertontiger.com
Our offices are open from 10.00am to 10.00pm every day including
Saturday & Sunday.
To broadcast copyright music legally you will need the following two licences, links are provided for further information and to apply for your own, as too are details of our radio station music licence.
Anderton Tiger Radio
Licence Number for 2010
LE-0001887
If you play music on your Internet radio station you will need a Licence
LOML (Limited Online
Music Licence)
User Guide
Lyrics
and Music Copyright Holders
Anderton Tiger Radio
Licence Number for 2010
SWL-0389
You'll
also need one of these licences to cover copyright
Small Webcaster Licence
User Guide
Record Companies &
Performers' Rights
Some of the rules for a Small Webcaster Licence
In any given 3 hour period of Webcasting there shall be:
(i) No more than 3 songs from a particular album
(ii) No more than 2 songs from a particular album consecutively
(iii) No more than 4 songs by one particular artist
(iv) No more than 3 songs by one particular artist consecutively
