The Beat
Dean Jackson and the team with music and more for your Saturday. Interviews and sessions with established, and often big name, artists as great local music from BBC Introducing.
Dean Jackson and the team with music and more for your Saturday night. Interviews and sessions with established, and often big name, artists as well as those just starting out. Great local music from BBC Introducing.
There's plenty of opportunity for you to be part of it by upoading your own music or interacting by phone and text or by emailing beat@bbc.co.uk
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Collaboration Through Isolation
We'd like to turn the idea of "isolation" on its head by giving musicians who are in lock down the chance to collaborate with others they've yet to meet.
If you are a vocalist, instrumentalist, producer, composer - or anything else to do with making music, we'd love to have you on board.
We'll play "musical matchmaker." We'll aim to pair you (or trio you or whatever!) with someone outside your immediate area but with the sort of skills you're looking for.
It'll be up to you to chat away and try to make it work. Obviously, we'll give airplay to any great tracks that emerge.
We want it to be a lot of fun and even if a track doesn't come off there'll be some good contacts made and some solid learning.
Just fill in the form (it takes 2 minutes) and we'll be in touch. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Please use an email address that you're happy for us to share with a person you may be working with (we won't make it widely available).
The form is HERE. The info will be sent by email and won't be stored in a database. Emails will be deleted after six months.
Dean and the team.
Where to find The Beat
From 6pm every Saturday night
Online at - bbc.co.uk/beat
On app - BBC Sounds
On radio / TV...
BBC Radio Nottingham
· DAB digital radio
· FM 103.8 (Nottingham)
· FM 95.5 (Mansfield)
· FM 95.1 (Newark)
· FREEVIEW TV Ch 720
BBC Radio Derby
· DAB digital radio
· FM 104.5 (Derby)
· FM 95.3 (Bakewell)
· FM 96.0 (Buxton)
· FREEVIEW TV - Ch 735
BBC Radio Leicester
· DAB digital radio
· FM 104.9 (everywhere!)
· FREEVIEW TV Ch 721
BBC Radio Lincolnshire (until 8pm)
· FM 94.9 (countywide)
· FM 104.7 (Grantham)
· FREEVIEW TV Ch 722
BBC Introducing East Midlands
An important part of The Beat is our role in BBC Introducing. We cover the East Midlands region. This part of the programme airs from 8pm to 10pm every Saturday. If you are a musician and would like to submit music for airplay, please post it to us sing the BBC Introducing uploader.
For the latest news and updates from BBC Introducing East Midlands, please follow us on Twitter here: www.twitter.com/BBCintroEMids
Welcome to The Beat with Dean Jackson and the team
Saturday night : 6pm until 10pm.
Though we play new local material throughout the programme, the final two hours are given over entirely to BBC Introducing; new unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music. You can jump straight to this content using the link here.
It is stored separately on the iPlayer and you can jump straight to it by using the link below.
Upload your music to The Beat/BBC Music Introducing
If you're in a band, a solo artist or a bedroom producer and you want to get the music you're making played on BBC radio, upload your tracks to BBC Music Introducing.
Upload your music at BBC Music Introducing
If you enter an East Midlands postcode when you register, your songs go straight into Dean Jackson's inbox.
You'll be notified automatically when your tracks are listened to by someone at the BBC or if they're going to be broadcast. If we like what we hear, you might even bag yourself a session or a slot on the BBC Introducing festival stage.
Competition : Terms and Conditions
1. The competition is open to residents of the UK, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, except BBC or BBC group company employees and anyone connected with the competition. In order to take part in this competition entrants must be 18 years of age or over by the date of the competition. Proof eligibility may be required.
2. The competition will be played on Saturday evenings across BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Leicester and BBC Radio Lincolnshire from 18 May 2019 during The Beat with Dean Jackson (except when editorial requirements lead to a change in schedule or a change in programme content).
3. During these programmes listeners will be invited to call or text in to register their wish to have a guess at the competition answer by:
a. Calling the number for your local station:
b. 0800 0665 949 (BBC Radio Lincolnshire)
c. 0800 678 3434 (BBC Radio Nottingham)
d. 0800 145 6161 (BBC Radio Derby)
e. 0808 100 1049 (BBC Radio Leicester)
4. The call is free from landlines and mobile phones.
a. Texting the number: 81333 with the key word PLAY.
Texts will be charged at your standard message rate.
Listeners will be asked a question relating to a music artist associated with an event (concert/festival etc)
If they answer incorrectly, the next entrant will be asked the same question. This is repeated up to a maximum of five entrants.
No other method of entry will be accepted. Only one entry is allowed per listener per programme.
5. Entry is only open during the times announced on-air. Entries received outside these times will not be registered. The opening and closing times may change so please listen to announcements during the programme.
6. When listeners telephone to enter, a member of the production team will ask them their name, general location and a contact telephone number. Those who entered by text message will be asked for name and general location when they called, if selected.
7. Five entrants will be selected at random. A member of the production team will call them back so they can be put live on air to take part in the competition. They will be put to air in the order they were selected.
8. If all entrants put to air fail to answer the question correctly, no one wins and that will be the end of the competition for that day.
9. In the event of the production team receiving no entries for the competition the presenter will announce this on air and close the competition.
10. Entrants must ensure that they are available on the telephone number provided to take the call from the production team. If an entrant is not available after reasonable attempts by the production team, another entrant will be randomly selected for that day.
11. The BBC reserves the right to refrain from putting an entrant on air or take any entrant off-air, and disqualify them from the competition at any time if they display offensive, abusive or any other kind of behaviour unsuitable for broadcast.
12. The prize is as described on air – please listen carefully to the announcements. For a particular prize there may be additional entry eligibility requirements – these will be made clear in the prize description for that round of the competition.
13. The prizes are as stated above. There is no cash alternative and the prizes cannot be sold or transferred in any circumstances. The BBC reserves the right to substitute or supplement any element of the prizes. The BBC is not responsible for any element or change to the prizes that are outside of its control.
The first name and general location of the winner will be disclosed on air.
14. winners cannot re-enter for four weeks after being put on air.
15. The BBC’s decision as to prizes awarded is final. No correspondence relating to the competition will be entered into.
16. The BBC reserves the right to: (i) amend these terms and conditions, including but not limited to, the competition opening and closing times and the programmes included; (ii) disqualify any entrant who breaches the rules or has acted fraudulently in any way; (iii) cancel the competition, at any stage, if in its opinion it is deemed necessary or if circumstances arise outside its control.
17. The BBC, its sub-contractors, subsidiaries and/or agencies cannot accept any responsibility whatsoever for any technical failure or malfunction or any other problem which may result in any entry being lost or not properly registered.
18. Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these rules and to agree to be bound by them when registering.
19. To the extent permitted by law, the BBC will not be liable for any loss or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise) including financial, reputational loss or disappointment.
20. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of England and Wales. This competition is administered by the BBC.
21. The BBC’s code of conduct for competitions applies to this Competition. You can read more about it here: BBC Competitions Policy.
Competition : Privacy Statement
It is important that you read this notice so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you during and after your relationship with us, in accordance with data protection law. Find out more information about BBC’s privacy here .
WHAT INFORMATION WILL WE COLLECT AND HOW WE WILL USE IT?
The BBC will process the information you have provided to us about yourself to take part in the competition. The personal information we will collect includes: Name, Date of Birth, phone number and general location. If you are chosen as a winner we will collect your home address. Proof of age eligibility may be requested.
We will process the personal information you provide to us for the purpose of running and administering the competition, and to enable us to mail your prize should you win the competition.
WHAT IS OUR LAWFUL BASIS?
The legal basis on which the BBC processes your personal data is on the basis of its legitimate interests of producing creative and compelling content and promoting ‘the appointment to listen’ and encourage tuning in to ‘The Beat’. We have carefully considered the impact on you and we will not use your personal information where the impact overrides our interests.
FOR HOW LONG WE WILL RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
If you are successful, the BBC will retain your personal information for a period of 2 years. The name and general location of the winner will be disclosed on-air.
If you are unsuccessful, the BBC will retain your personal information until 48 hours after the competition (SMS) and 6 months after the competition (phone).
WHO WILL WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?
The BBC will share your name and home address (a physical prize) or email address (digital prize) with the organiser of the event for which you are competing for the prize who will post or email tickets on our behalf.
YOUR RIGHTS AND MORE INFORMATION
If you have any questions about how the BBC handles your personal information, or you wish to find out about your rights, please visit the BBC’s Privacy and Cookies Policy. You will also be able to find out more information about how the BBC processes your information and how you can contact the BBC’s Data Protection Officer.
If you raise a concern with the BBC about the way it has handled your personal data and you are dissatisfied with the BBC’s response, you are entitled to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
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