CiTR Olympic Coverage Plan - content needed

CiTR Olympic Coverage Plan - content needed

Brad from the CiTR news team presented to CJSF volunteers on January 29. We are invited to supply content for their coverage, and welcome to use theirs. Here is the outline of their plan, fully updated through Feb. 6:

1. Currently, CiTR has newscasts on Mondays and Fridays, 5-6 pm. Starting February 8th, they will begin 3 weeks of special Olympics coverage on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 5-6 pm. So, three hours a week to fill.

2. On Feb. 8th, CITR will produce an hour with the best of their CITR pre-Olympic coverage.

3. On Feb. 11th, they will be getting coverage of the Torch Relay at UBC.

4. On Feb. 12th, they will do a live broadcast of the protest at the Vancouve
r Art Gallery.

5. After that, each M-W-F the Olympics reports will be hosted live, 5-6 pm, from their UBC studio, with all-Olympic coverage, both pre-recorded and live interview segments and reports.

6. Daily they will produce 5 minutes of Olympic headlines and post them to the NCRA Program Exchange. At 8, 12, and 5, CiTR will be playing these headlines - promoting upcoming shows and highlighting previous coverage.

7. On Mondays and Fridays in the news hour, they will be doing regular segments with spokespeople from BCCLA and Pivot Legal Society.

8. They have launched a segment called "Eyes on the Street" that will serve as their user-generated Olympic coverage by means of a Twitter account (username: CiTRnews), voice mail (604-822-5334), and email (news@citr.ca).

9. They will post all their pieces to the NCRA Program Exchange. [yes!]
Things they plan to cover include: Torch Relay at UBC on Thursday Feb. 11. Olympics opening ceremonies Feb. 12. Big protest at the Art Gallery on the 12th. Women's March to end violence in the Downtown Eastside.

They ask for help with both content creation and involving citizens to report.

Pieces you post to the NCRA Program Exchange will be available to them.
Contact info:

News Department
CiTR Radio 101.9FM
233-6138 SUB Blvd.
Vancouver, B.C.
V6T 1Z1

phone: 604-822-5334 (newsroom)
email: news@citr.ca
web: www.citr.ca
follow us on twitter: @CiTRnews
become a fan on facebook: CiTR News

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Hi Frieda,

It's Andrew - the other Co-Director of CiTR News 101. Everything is pretty accurate - there are only a few things I would add:

1. The Wednesday broadcast from 5-6pm will primarily be Olympics coverage from an arts perspective (hosted by Tracy Fuller of the Arts Report).

4. 12 Feb - We will not be broadcasting live from the protest because we would need either a landline or a hard internet connection. But we will have reporters there who we will be talking to us live from the protest. While four of us have accreditation for the media centre at Robson Square, we don't have access to the actual opening ceremonies inside BC Place.

7. We will probably promo stories we are working on very briefly in the 5-min daily headlines. The headlines will be made available no later than 10pm each night through the NCRA program exchange in order to be played the following day.

10. We will upload individual stories to the program exchange as well, which stations can play as stand-alone pieces, if they wish.


Thanks for spreading the word. We'll be in touch.

Cheers,

Andrew Longhurst