Head of Production

The role of Head of Production changes each year. They may be responsible for creating jingles for shows and the station, producing audio adverts for sponsors, working with show hosts to develop their content, acting as an assistant to the Head of Programming, or a combination of these. As such, a committee may choose to instead split this role between the Head Technician and the Head of Programming, if a suitable person applies for these roles.

As it is a fairly new role, the responsibilities may change in the future; for example, the Head of Production may be asked to organise an Outside Broadcast (OB) team.

Previous Heads of Production

Year	Name	Position Title
2009/10	Cam Curran	Head of Imaging/Audio Editor
2019/20	Jamie Rees	Head of Production

Handover

Intro

The Head of Production needs to regularly create short jingles for the station, and upload them to Myriad Playout. They play after every few songs on AutoFade, so people will quickly get sick of them if they aren't updated. You may also be asked to help the Head of Programming to create the schedule, monitor show attendance, and give feedback on shows.

Tasks

• Create short jingles (station idents), with a mixture between 3 and 20 seconds long
• Meet with show hosts to record jingles with them
• Meet with sponsors to create radio adverts for them
• Attempt to record jingles with visiting musicians, or ask starTV or Head Technician to do this if applicable
• Upload all jingles and adverts to Myriad Playout, and adjust settings so that

Links

• BBC sound effects
• Myriad Playout tutorials, especially this one

Contacts

• Previous Head of Production, e.g. Jamie Rees