BBC Radio Lancashire – B4RN First Connections
Sponsor a Metre?
Special for Valentines day, sponsor a metre for your sweetheart and get your message on the duct! Update: our first sponsor photos are here – the livestream of the first names is here During a conversation with Ken Fallon on a radio podcast the idea of sponsorship was born. The plan so far, is that for a donation of £5 you can sponsor a metre of our fibre duct. In return we put your name on a metre of duct and take a photo of it. Your metre of the B4RN network with your name on it will be buried on a Lancashire upland farm for posterity, and your generosity will enable another metre to...
Read MoreBBC’s “The One Show” B4RN Feature
Yesterday’s The One Show included a great report on B4RN. The film crew were in the area for the whole day and they have compressed the footage into a 5 minute report, which for prime time TV is a sizeable slot. The report features interviews with Andrew Metcalfe, a local farmer. Christine Conder, B4RN Committee Member. Brendan Dick, Managing Director, BT Regions at BT. Barry Forde, CEO B4RN. It also features clips from the Inaugural Dig Event made by local film producer John Hamlett. BT’s Brendan Dick, who was interviewed on top of Jubilee Tower overlooking the B4RN area said...
Read MoreLatest B4RN Coverage on BBC North West
The media interest continues in B4RN with a report on BBC North West. This latest report, which was shown on two separate bulletins, the latter one being slightly longer, features fibre training by B4RN supplier Emtelle. Here is the first report. ; And here is the latter one, which features Carole Brown from local company, Dalesbred Finest...
Read MoreA B4RN-storming Media Week
It has been, what you might call, a busy week for B4RN with the publication of several B4RN articles, (or B4RN-icles as was suggested the other day. Not sure if that will stick). Most have been posted on our Facebook page but it would be good to consolidate them all into one post. So here they are, or the ones we know about anyway. Let us know if we have missed any. The first one of the latest run was an excellent article in the Mail on Sunday which was a full page spread. Here is the digital version. This article prompted calls from the Daily Telegraph, Sky News, the BBC, Farmers Weekly and...
Read MorePress Coverage
Massive amounts of press coverage for the project, including spreads in farming magazines, newspapers and many blogs. We have put many of them here on this page: January 30th, What the Green Bay Packers can teach us about broadband by Craig Settles January 26th: Can the strategy that raised enough money for a new Packers’ stadium finance a rural broadband network? Communities in Vermont USA and rural Lancashire, England, have kicked off efforts. By Craig Settles http://www.dailyyonder.com/score-two-rural-broadband-teams/2012/01/25/3712 On receipt of the “B4RN is...
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