Radio Killed the Radio Star

Buggles (one for the youngsters there!) had it all wrong as Friday saw the very sad announcement that TFM would "merge" with Metro radio and become Tyneside based. So the parent group of the radio station have effectively killed off Teesside's main independent radio station. What are we left with if we want local radio content? Well there is the excellent BBC Tees including the weekly fix of Boro commentaries for anyone wishing to become depressed (that's a comment on the fortunes of Boro not the brilliant Ali Brownlee and Higgy). There is also to shortly be a new community radio station based in The Palace Hub, Redcar as this month sees the launch of PalaceFM.

Launching later this month, PalaceFM will include an arts programme RAW pm which we are having some minor input into (but leaving most of it to people who know what they're on about!). Exciting stuff and at the end of last week we (when I say we I mean Peter) created the new logo for the station. Modesty prevents me from saying which company will be creating the website for the station, ahem.

There was a lot of work on other projects last week including the launch of the new Richardson Moving & Storage website which went live on Friday. It's not completely finished (I actually never think a website is completely finished) but has progressed sufficiently to make it live and we'll tweak it over the next couple of weeks. It's a Wordpress site and today I'll be plugging in Yoast and setting up the SEO content for it. It's really good to have them with us after they did such a great job with our office move.

What of the rest of last week? A number of meetings that saw us get involved in some new pieces of work, move forward the PalaceFM plans and networking. As the business grows there are more and more meetings and the key is to only arrange/attend a meeting if there is a point to them. We also worked on the non-mobile version of the Ouch! website which we'll complete on Monday, a new design for a local PC repair company website, a website for a local builders, business cards for a hypnotherapist in the South of England with a website to follow, some work on the project with Cleveland police, migrating our customers' websites to a new server and the usual stuff of marketing, SEO and running Cleveland Hour on Twitter.

A very busy week and long may it continue. Next week sees website work for Richardson Moving & Storage, PalaceFM, police project, the pc repair company, a local marketing company, a marketing company in Birmingham, a local gardener, a local plumber, a dyslexia project, hypnotherapist, Ouch! and if time permits (and I don't see how it will) a new artists website we're planning.

I'm now off to take my hangover onto Adobe CS6 for some work.