Help With Using The Site
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frequently asked questions
Posted by adrian on 19th February 2011What frequency are you on?
We’re not! We only broadcast on the internet… The only option we would have for an FM licence would be to apply for one every 6 months – and it would be very tough to try and cover all areas of the Two Valleys (too many hills!). There’s lots of things we really enjoy about broadcasting on the web. The website; the fact that everything we do is available for listen again; and we can move around and broadcast from any of the villages in the Two Valleys – we’re not tied to having one studio and a big transmitter…When do you broadcast?
We broadcast when there is something to say! At the moment we set up broadcasts around particular events in the Two Valleys. But as we are setting up our own studios and we have more volunteers, we are looking at doing regular broadcasts eg first Monday of the month. But that won’t stop us getting out and about as well…Who runs Two Valleys Radio?
Two answers really. Heads Together Productions is the community arts organisation who have set up Two Valleys. But it’s the volunteers who turn up and make it happen – have a look at ‘The story so far’. If you would like to get involved as a volunteer – just get in touch and come along to one of our Monday volunteers’ meetings. You don’t need any particular skills or experience – just a bunch of enthusiasm.Where do you broadcast from?
Well we have a base now – at the Carlile Institute in Meltham – which is great. But we don’t just broadcast from there. In our first year we set up studios and took our Outside Broadcast unit (the glorious Caravan of Love) to 12 different villages in the Two Valleys. If you would like us to come and broadcast from your street, farm, village or school – then just get in touch… -
Where To Go
Posted by Taru on 4th February 2011Two Valleys Radio is based in the Carlile Institute annexe in Meltham. The address is:
54 Huddersfield Road
Meltham
HD9 4AGIf you’re driving: you need to follow the B6108 away from Huddersfield towards Oldham and Greenfield. You’ll find a large car park behind the building by taking the small road between the Carlile Institute and the Library (Carlile Street).
If you’re on public transport:
Bus numbers 321, 324 and 324B run from Huddersfield Bus station to Meltham and stop very close to the Carlile Institute. Click here for timetables
Bus number 335 is a circular which runs from Pole Moor – Slaithwaite – Meltham – Holmfirth and back again. Click here for a timetable
And bus number 911 Runs from Honley to Meltham and back again. Click here for a timetable.
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Two Valleys Radio Studios
Posted by adrian on 15th December 2010Two Valleys Radio now has a permanent home in the Carlile Institute in Meltham. Here’s how to find us:
Carlile Institute,
54 Huddersfield Road,
Meltham,
HD9 4AG01484 859168
Bus numbers 321, 324 and 324B run from Huddersfield Bus station to Meltham and stop right next to the Carlile Institute. Click here for timetables
Bus number 335 is a circular which runs from Pole Moor – Slaithwaite – Meltham – Holmfirth and back again. Click here for a timetable
And bus number 911 Runs from Honley to Meltham and back again. Click here for a timetable.
If you’re driving, you need to follow the B6108 away from Huddersfield towards Oldham and Greenfield. There is plenty of parking available behind the building – including spaces for disabled drivers. Just turn left on Carlile Street and you’ll see the car park…
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Player Help
Posted by tommorgan on 26th January 2010We’re hoping listening will be a simple experience. You should be able to just hit the play button… although it’s possible you might have to install or update flash.
If you want to look around the rest of the site – or browse elsewhere whilst you are listening – you can choose to use the pop out player (which will pop out… and play…).
If the stream does drop out and the player tells you its buffering, you need to refresh your page and try the play button again.
If you’re having any problems listening to the broadcast or with the player in general, please leave a comment below letting us know what the problem is.
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What to do
Posted by tommorgan on 25th January 2010Two Valleys Radio is an internet-based community radio station. We don’t broadcast on FM – just through the website. So … what you do is listen in to the programmes either live when we are on air; or through the listen again feature.
But don’t just listen. Feel free to comment in the panel at the bottom of each page – we love to hear your thoughts.
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How to listen
Posted by admin on 14th January 2010When we are live on air you can listen to the stream by clicking on the play button on the player which you will see on the home page of the website. There is also a pop out version of the player so you can go looking through the rest of the website whilst listening.
At other times many programmes are available for listen again. Either scroll through the panel of programmes on the home page or have a look through the different broadcasts on the listen again page.
Any problems – leave a comment and we’ll do our best to help.
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Player Problems
Posted by admin on 31st December 2009Go you 99 problems? Well, the Two Valleys Radio Player shouldn’t be one.
We’ve tried to make the player as easy and reliable to use as we can but inevitably the odd thing will slip through the cracks.
Assuming you’re here because you’ve found a problem with player on one of our pages we’d really appreciate it if you could help us out by reporting the problem in the comments below.
NB: please write you message above the content we’ve automatically inserted into the comment box – this will be really helpful to us in solving the problem.