Organising an Event this Summer in the Swansea Bay area?

EVENT organisers are being encouraged to get in touch with Swansea Council if they’d like details included in summer marketing materials.

The council produces 70,000 printed copies of the Swansea Bay Festival guide every year and includes event information on the swanseabayfestival.co.uk website.

People have the chance for their events to be included for free, but they have to get in touch with the council before Friday February 22.

If you have an event anytime from May to August that you’d like to promote, then email swanseabayfestival@swansea.gov.uk or call 01792 635458 with the details

 We will also be interested in your event as we'll be running an events feature and will be including clips of events during the summer.

You can contact us at info@swantv.com

Our launch approaches fast so watch for details.

2013 Pilot Show Presenters

We have found and commissioned three presenters for our first show. Experienced cameramen, lighting and sound engineers and editors go without saying. They work in the background and make sure that programmes are always finished to a high quality.

But of course the viewer only sees the presenter and guest. And the professional presenter will guide the guest in the direction that will appeal to the viewers and keep them watching.

We feel that we have found three such presenters for our pilot show.

Keith Maynard has spent his years working as a presenter, actor and Compere for various companies both away at sea and on land. In 2010 he was offered the chance to work as an Entertainment Director for Cunard’s legendary Queens, most recently the Queen Mary 2. During this period he presented a series of Video Blogs for Cunard line and ran his own live daily TV Chat Show.

Keith is a passionate presenter and loves to interview people, his most recent guests have included Sir David Frost, Jennie Bond, PD James, Anthony Inglis, Graham Taylor, Dame Sheree Valentine Daines, Tim Sebastian and Britains Got Talent Winners Ashleigh and Pudsey.

We are pleased that Keith has joined us and look forward to having him present future shows. 

Watch out for him on Ideal World TV on Sunday 10th February at 1700 hours.

Jenni Crane is a breath of fresh air in the presenting world – a dynamic, versatile, pocket sized presenter with a wealth of experience behind her.

Making her on screen debut on the shopping channels she soon caught the eye of channel 5 “The Wright Stuff” and from time to time, can be seen as booth girl.

Jenni writes, produces and edits her own material.  She recently set up her own blog “Jenni’s Journeys” – A Welsh girl in London.  Her well developed journalistic techniques succeed in capturing the hearts and minds of London, reporting on the capitals major events.  With her effective use of Social media marketing, Jenni has received commissions from businesses, requesting her to review their products from luxury hotels to afternoon teas!

Having interviewed people from many different walks of life, from the stars of the big screen to rugby legends, Jenni’s down to earth, friendly approach gives her the likability factor, both on screen and off!   You'll be seeing lots more of Jenni on SwanTV


Flora Blathwayt is a graduate of the Postgraduate Broadcast Journalism course at the London College of Communication. She has been a reporter with  Heart West Country, Presenter with Frome TV, Somerset, Reporter with Spire FM, Salisbury and a reporter with BBC Oxford. She was a reporter at the Queens Jubilee, the flypast at RAF Odham and  at Leicester Square premieres.

She has a quirky intimate style of interviewing that adds something special to our programmes.

Watch our for SwanTV.com from the beginning of March. 

Swan TV Pilot Show

Saturday 18th January was to be the day we recorded our pilot show but instead we had to cancel because of the snow.

So it was the following Sunday that we gathered in our studio in Swansea High Street and set up the kit ready for our guests to arrive at 1.45 for a 2pm start. Initially we shot our musicians and then immediately set up the lighting for the chat show. 

Keth and Jenni were on the sofa whilst Flora was our "roving" reporter.

Our three presenters Keith Maynard, Jenni Crane and Flora Blathwayt arrived early and we were able to do a run through and discuss the guests.

Right on cue Cllr Nick Bradley, the Swansea Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Dylan Thomas, Geraint Davies the Member of Parliament for Swansea West and  Geoff Hayden, owner of the Dylan Thomas house in Swansea Uplands arrived.

Soon we were ready to go. Cameramen, lighting and sound operators, presenters and guests waited for the count-down and we got under way.

It took just one take to complete.

Dave Long of Onlyoneword started a monochrome piece of art and just before we started recording and completed it as we finished. We are planning to have this on display at the launch on 29th February.

Watch out for the channel going live at the end of the month.

Dylan Thomas Literary Prize Week sundry items

Out and about at the end of October. I just couldn't believe my eyes to see Xmas decorations up already.

Driving near Cross Hands I had to stop and take a photo. I know celebrations start earlier each year but it's mainly shops that are after our custom. Do you think this is too early? Let me know. Drop a comment in at the bottom of the page.






Driving through the Hafod last week I just had to catch this shot of what could be scaffolding being erected to reach out to the silver lining.

 The Dylan Thomas Literary Award is here again. This most prestigious event celebrated young authors (under thirty years) from around the world.

We followed three of them this week from Mozart's where they read excepts from their short-listed books, across to Noah's in Swansea Uplands where they were interviewed by Peter Stead, who created the awards back in 2006. There is a glittering prize - of £30,000. A bonus to any author today: and particularly to a young author in this very competitive market. The readings were such a contrast and all held the packed room audience spell-bound.
 


Introduced by Hannah Ellis, grand-daughter of Dylan Thomas. This was a warm and inspiring event.

 Lighting was extremely poor at this location as was the sound but we have managed to capture the essence of the intimate atmosphere. Watch out for footage on SwanTV

Tuesday evening the  Dylan Thomas Literary Finalists went to the Swansea Print Workshop where there was a presentation on the Dylan Thomas Project run 10 years ago with both original and new artists. The work is very delicate and cotton gloves were the order of the day. Touching the paper may have a damaging effect.

As a memento of the occasion the Print Workshop had set each author's name in cold type and produced a simple poster for each to take away. They actually printed off their individual copies.  

There are some really interesting old printing presses at the Swansea Print Workshop that are still used today.