Nailsea School - Nailsea School Radio

Nailsea School Radio or NSR is a student led Internet radio station broadcasting from Nailsea School in North Somerset.

The station started out as an idea by a Nailsea School pupil, Edd Burrell, who drew up a business case including budget and predicted costs before approaching the school to seek support. He and a small team then began to create pilot episodes to show if the station would be viable in June 2007. In January 2008 the school approved the team's application and began to fund the radio station through its Technology and Media Arts College specialist school status. The team then worked on creating weekly podcasts until September 2008 where NSR in its current format was born, with daily live shows.

The station's primary output is aimed at the pupils of the school, with its daytime output consisting of school news and current hit music. After school output can vary, from the Live Requests Show to more specialist shows such as the Genre Show. All the shows are created by the pupils, with students taking all roles within the station from presenting, producing, Web design, journalism and the station management. Currently the station has over 22 pupils working with the project.

The station also takes part in many community based broadcasts covering a wide array of events within Nailsea and the wider area. As a specialist school status project, the station is constantly evolving by trying new technology and training its team with strong links to the schools media department offering advice on media practices.

A typical fortnight's output currently has 19 shows (approximately 1 hour per show), but will be expanding to a full 20 hours by April 2010

The station is currently recruiting new DJs, and will soon have another list of shows going out live.

A team from Nailsea School Radio also produced 6 shows which went out on Bristol's BCFM called "the voice", which was the teenage debate show on the station. The team explored some of the big issues of the day and gave teenagers in the city a voice, along with hearing about teenage projects and showing the cultural diversity of the city. The team behind this show was Edd, Matt, Greaeme, Josh, Jack and Seth, all from Nailsea School Radio.