Takeover Radio is not just a Radio Station. We are Takeover Radio Children’s Media Trust – we cater for other media and the children need to learn that they all go together. To this end we have opened up our blog on this site. This blog covers the activities of the charity and its members.…
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Our Response to Corona virus (COVID-19) Takeover Radio shut up shop on Sunday 15th March. So no children have been going in at all. The first week leading up the the nationwide lockdown the station was largely on automatic output. But we did spend that week preparing for working from home. We already had the…
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We were extremely pleased to be awarded a grant from the Kinex Community Support Fund earlier this month. Earlier in the year, we applied to Kinex to purchase some new microphones for studio 2. Some months later we were surprised when we received some money to do this. So another step is taken into turning…
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On Friday the 13th of September, around 90 pupils from nearby Wolsey House Primary School descended upon the station as part of their school project about media production and podcasting. As part of the visit, pupils has the opportunity to look at our live studio which broadcasts to Leicester on 103.2FM and to the world…
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As part of our support of the Spark Children’s Art Festival we are working closely with Radio Leicester to produce the Spark News Room. This involved a number of our young presenters visiting the various activities of the festival and reporting on them for Radio Leicester in the form of a live delivered package.This proved very…
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The project was to train a group of young people to prepare, produce and present an evening discussion programme covering topics of interest to them. Each week the young people have worked together to ensure that they have featured a different faith, community or cultural group during their on air broadcast. The group were a true reflection of…
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