{"id":40275,"date":"2015-05-01T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=40275"},"modified":"2015-05-01T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T16:41:24","slug":"red-sands-radio-staffing-shortages-hit-local-fm-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=40275","title":{"rendered":"Red Sands Radio: Staffing shortages hit local FM radio station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing shortages hit local FM radio station<br \/>\nBased in the historic harbour at Whitstable, Red Sands Radio originally broadcast from the Offshore Forts and this year is suffering a severe shortfall in staff<br \/>\n\u201cRed Sands Radio Founder MD and Programme Director Bob Le-Roi said; \u201cWith a small core of dedicated key members it\u2019s always been difficult to juggle life-work commitments with running Red Sands Radio\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe strive to achieve a high standard at Red Sands Radio with core daytime programmes hosted by professional broadcasters. However, when they become indisposed or indeed things go wrong we don\u2019t have sufficient quality back-up\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis coupled with a shortfall at weekends; we haven\u2019t the resources to provide the quality of service the Coastal Towns expect of us. Consequently with regret, it\u2019s unlikely Red Sands Radio will be on-air for its 9th successive year in 2015\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redsandsradio.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.redsandsradio.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Info via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/redsands.radio?fref=nf\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staffing shortages hit local FM radio station Based in the historic harbour at Whitstable, Red Sands Radio originally broadcast from the Offshore Forts and this year is suffering a severe shortfall in staff \u201cRed Sands Radio Founder MD and Programme Director Bob Le-Roi said; \u201cWith a small core of dedicated key members it\u2019s always been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=40275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Sands Radio: Staffing shortages hit local FM radio station<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,24,49],"class_list":["post-40275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-am","tag-fm","tag-offshore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5CD59-atB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40303,"url":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=40303","url_meta":{"origin":40275,"position":0},"title":"Whitstable&#8217;s Red Sands Radio station could face closure due to staff shortfall","author":"Administrator","date":"May 2, 2015 16:08","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.canterburytimes.co.uk\/Whitstable-s-Red-Sands-Radio-station-face-closure\/story-26426467-detail\/story.html","rel":"","context":"In &quot;English&quot;","block_context":{"text":"English","link":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34058,"url":"https:\/\/www.achimbrueckner.de\/freeradio\/php\/wordpress\/?p=34058","url_meta":{"origin":40275,"position":1},"title":"BDXC Offshore articles","author":"Administrator","date":"June 30, 2014 18:51","format":false,"excerpt":"Offshore Radio Articles Articles from BDXC Communication magazine about offshore radio. 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