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			      CONFERENCE

			On a Woman's Wavelength? 	
		    Women and Radio in the Nineties

   Sunday 15th October 1994 at the University of Sunderland, England

Until recently, BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour was the only programme on
radio broadcasting (in the UK) mainly for and by women. Fem FM, the
UK's first radio station run entirely by women broadcast under a
temporary Radio Authority licence in Bristol. In 1994, a London
consortium applied for a permanent licence for VIVA FM, a station
aimed at women in the 25-49 age group in London.

This conference aims to bring together radio practitioners,
academics, and people interested in women's radio initiatives to
discuss these new developments in radio. It will provide a forum to
debate issues relating to the employment of women in all sectors of
radio: whether there's need for "women only" programming, the
development of a "feminist radio discourse" and the advantages and
constraints of targeting female audiences. It will also explore
possibilities for local training, production and opportunities for
women's radio in the north-east.

Speakers include:
* Gillian Reynolds - radio critic and broadcasters - Conference chair
* Caroline Millington - Controller, Production, BBC Network Radio -
speaing on Women as managers
* Birgitte Jallov - Baltic Media Centre, Denmark - speaking on
European Women's Radio
* Trish Jarman - Head of Commercial Production, Century Radio -
speaking on radio advertising

Plus workshops on independent production, how to set up a women's
radio station (speakers from Brazen radio, London and Fem FM, Bristol),
news and journalism, women's radio training initiatives, lesbian
radio, Arts and innovation on the radio... and more.

For further details:

Caroline Mitchell
University of Sunderland
Forster Building
Chester Road
Sunderland SR1 3JD
Tel: (44-91) 515 2106/2188
Fax: (44-91) 515 2178