Some quite useful Tulip FM trivia

Hey their followers and non followers here’s my blog post for the week. As you may know or for may not know (so many positives and negatives) I’ve been putting together my presentation on a local radio or TV station. I choose to do a radio station and selected Tulip Fm from my home town of Spalding.

On my course of research I picked up a few facts which may not be relevant to my presentation to so I’ll pop them down below for the world to read or ignore as another ramble blog.

1. I’ve had at least 4 friends working as volunteers from the station, some got their chance by a bizarre twist of fate in which they were given a chance to work for the station in it’s years prior to going full time after they wrote poems about onions. Their original prize was going to be what must have been planed to be a super interesting tour of the local council offices in all the grey and dull glory. However that fell through so the back up prize was a tour of the radio studios and then a chance to work on the station.
2. They have the facilities for live bands and are toying with the idea of apparently doing a local Radio 1 live lounge style show, just without Fern Cotton sucking up to bands that were around before she was born.
3. I thought it was all funded privately by the station manager until I checked their website to find that they have various sponsors and advertising deals with local companies around Spalding thus making them a commercial radio station.
4. I also found out that Radio 1 DJ Greg James mentioned the station during his show many times thus boosting it’s popularity.