Student TV Station
Whitley Bay High School also offers students the opportunity to become involved in its student television station, Bay TV, conceived in 2006, through a student-teacher partnership. All programmes are broadcast through its own website. The mainstay of the station's broadcasts are 'Jam Today,' a popular music show, and 'It's Baytime!' a news & current affairs programme. The station recently received favorable critical appreciation from the likes of BBC News readers Huw Edwards and Sophie Raworth, and Channel 4's Alex Thomson. In addition, an article about Bay TV appeared in the north-east's Evening Chronicle.
The student TV station is helping to promote special needs awareness, and will base future issues around this theme.
Unfortunately, due to lack of demand, Bay TV was scrapped. Even though BSkyB were looking to invest in the program, a recent survey on The Guardian suggested that the idea was not a profit maximising one in the long run.
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