BRIAN ANDERSON
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DJ aboard the legendary "Pirate" RADIO CAROLINE Broadcasting from a ship anchored 4 miles off the Dutch coast, Radio Caroline is a true Legend in British Broadcasting. 1975-81 Producer, Presenter, Head of Training, Head Of Music at RADIO TEES Radio Tees was a large commercial local radio station in the North East of England. Presenters trained by me are now found in many radio stations across Britain including two ex daytime controllers of BBC Radio One the British NATIONAL pop music station. 1981-90 Head of Programmes, Head of Music, Head of Training, Presenter at One of Britain's smallest commercial local radio stations. Based in the north of Scotland Moray Firth Radio, throughout the 1980's, achieved some of the highest audience figures ever recorded in British local radio. The station also won many awards for its programming. 1990- 2002 WINDOW COMMUNICATIONS Ltd Operating from Shanghai, CHINA, and a cottage studio in Scotland. 300.000.000 potential listeners in FOURTEEN cities throughout the Peoples Republic of China PLUS another 79,240,000 in VIETNAM and....... MONGOLIA. The DHL funded programme began in August 1989. In 1990 Nescafe agreed to sponsor more programmes in Shanghai. In 1992 programming was expanded to 14 cities. In 1993 we also secured sponsorship in Shanghai from SONY. We were true PIONEERS in China and occupied more than THIRTY THOUSAND HOURS of airtime and conducted TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS worth of business. The operation involved not only producing programmes but also running a company and dealing with multi national sponsors. To make it all work I had to train Chinese presenters and even build the necessary studios. Although we were badly hit by the "Asian Financial Crisis" in January 1999 we continued to produce a weekly programme in China until May 2002 In 1997 I visited Vietnam and Mongolia and for three years produced a weekly programme "DHL International Music Express" on RADIO THE VOICE OF VIETNAM in Hanoi and BLUE SKY RADIO in Ulaanbaatar. EXTRAS Commercial Voice overs for MANY Radio Stations. Freelance Documentary Producer. Freelance Video Producer. Short Term contract presenter for BLUE DANUBE RADIO in Vienna - Austria. Short Term Contract presenter for RTHK RADIO THREE in Hong Kong. KOSOVO In June 1999 I worked with a Swiss based NGO and went to MACEDONIA for 10 days to help set up a daily NEWS programme in ALBANIAN aimed at the KOSOVO refugees. I also worked with Childrens Aid Direct, UNICEF and the Canadian Governments International Aid Department to start "Bla Bla Cafe" a daily 15 minute youth magazine programme in Serbian. I built 3 studios and trained staff in journalism and production techniques. SOUTH AFRICA
In May 2001 I spent 9 weeks in Cape Town South Africa working with an innovative project called “Workers World Radio Productions”
BOTSWANA In August 2001 I spent 5 days in Gaborone Botswana to help set up a drama studio for the production of a “Makgabaneng” an AIDS education radio drama funded by the American Centre For Disease Control. This is now one of Botswana’s top radio programmes and I returned in April 2002 and again in October 2002 and July 2003 to give more production training.
AFGHANISTAN
In June 2002 I spent 5 weeks in Kabul working with Scottish NGO MEDIA SUPPORT SOLUTIONS and helped to produce more that 100 short features to promote the EMERGENCY LOYA JIRGA
This project was funded by USAID and OIM and we produced short dramas and vox pop features in which we spoke to many hundreds of people who gave their views on the situation within Afghanistan. These featured were broadcast on BBC World Service, Voice Of America, Radio Free Afghanistan and internally on Radio Afghanistan and local radio stations. I returned to Kabul in December 2003 to help with the production of more features and in May 2004 spent a month training staff at RADIO KILID a local radio station in Kabul. In January 2005 I built a music recording studio and two television edit suites for an Afghan NGO in Kabul. I trained key staff in television production and returned in May 2005 to give more training to local staff some of whom were involved in a new radio station, Radio Nawa. UZBEKISTAN - TAJIKISTAN In April 2003 I spent a week in Tashkent Uzbekistan and a week in Dushanbe Tajikistan helping with production of health related radio dramas and back up feature production for a project organised by SILK ROAD RADIO PRODUCTIONS and part funded by UNESCO. TV I have a High Definition and a DVCAM camera together with a Macintosh video edit suite. These travels with me in my laptops wherever I go! You can Email brian AT broadcastingcottage DOT co DOT uk (address link removed as spam protection)
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