Ron is one of the funniest and nicest fellas you could hope to meet and he's joined Coast Community Radio and Media (CCRM) as the company's Commercial and Marketing Director. His role is to ensure the company grows contacts in the Colwyn Bay business world so we can bring in advertising and other revenue to fund our community station Bayside Radio.

He has own promotions and marketing company along with a very thick contacts book and he's in a great place to help the company grow for the good of the community. CCRM is a non-profit community interest company which has been set up to develop an entertaining and informative station for Colwyn Bay. Ronnie is the man to help us achieve our goals.

Ron also has a job with the Holyhead Ambulance Service and along with his presenting and management role on Bayside Radio, he doesn't have much time to sleep! Many people of a certain age from Glan Conwy will fondly remember a young 'Ronnie Stan' serving them in Austin's butchers many, many years ago. He loves the local community and being part of our exciting new project.

Ron lives in the back-of-beyond (all taxi drivers beware), somewhere that Sat-Navs fear to tread with his wife Lynn and his two daughters Sara-Catrin and Becca.

His grounding in radio began at Radio Glan Clwyd as a hospital radio presenter before joining Marcher Coast FM in Colwyn Bay to do some part time work in between his full time job at the Daily Post newspaper. One thing led to another and in just a few months he joined the team at Marcher Gold in Wrexham to present the afternoon drive show covering maternity leave. By this time he really got the radio bug and looked to take his career down the radio path.

A number of radio presentation roles followed in the North West of England before being appointed Programme Director for an easy listening station in Manchester and the Launch Director for a new commercial pop music station in Warrington called Wire FM. The station quickly became one of the most popular stations in the North West despite heavy competition.

The bright lights of London soon beckoned and Simon joined the BBC's Media Planning and Presentation department and was stationed at Radio 2 in what is now known as Wogan House. His role was to work between programming and production at Radio 2 and the marketing and advertising agency teams, to scope out a deliver campaigns to promote the station's output. He then moved to the youth division as Media Portfolio Manager for Radio 1 and BBC Three and mangaged a team of people who delivered award winning industry campaigns for the channels before cut-backs forced BBC Three to close and go online only. He says at the time, he was only planning to stay at the BBC for a year but ended up staying for nearly 17 years!

Following the closure of BBC Three, Simon returned back to North Wales to help his family set up a new business and since the beginning of the year worked behind the scenes with former colleagues and broadcasters to establish Coast Community Radio and Media CIC, the parent company behind Bayside Radio. He also spends his week working at Porth Eirias, doing marketing things and visiting schools and community groups in North Wales encouraging young people to take up sailing and water based sports.

He's married to Dawn and lives in Colwyn Bay with his two stepsons Danny and Adam. 

We're really proud to have him on board as our Director of Communities and he's tasked with ensuring that Bayside Radio truly reflects the needs of our communities in the Bay of Colwyn and that we truly serve the 30,000 people living in our borough. Jeff's remit is to ensure that the company and the station gives a positive voice to Colwyn Bay and we all celebrate living in an area of Conwy which is on the up and beginning to get it's smile and confidence back. 

Jeff is an incredibly well connected chap and has helped the station grow very strong relationships with community organisations and groups such as Coleg Llandrillo amongst others. As one of the Colwyn Town Councillors for Rhos-on-Sea's Dinerth Ward he's always looking at how the radio station can help the community.

You might not know this but Jeff is also an ordained Christian Minister and attends the Penrhyn Bay Presbyterian Church. He has worked professionally in radio too including United Christian Broadcasters amongst others.

He's a proud Brummie and moved to North Wales in 1975 when he was Head Green Keeper of Llanfairfechan Golf Club. He's been married to Kath for 43 years and has 3 children and 7 grand children who all live in the area.

As we stumbled into the abyss of modern day technology and how it all worked, Pete and a few contacts we had at the BBC helped put together the awesome equipment which gets the station on-air each and every day. He worked to install some of the most cutting edge technology allowing us to make podcasts and downloads from our output in seconds and publish news stories and other content in an equally amazing turnaround time.

Pete built all the equipment we have in Playout One (the studio where all our output is engineered from) including state-of-the-art decoders which send our signal to internet streaming servers in Paris. Before this happens our two studios bounce their output via cloud servers in the USA back down to Playout One. Heaven knows how it works but it does (well most of the time).

Pete very much dislikes getting messages from the Bayside Radio Ops team late at night and takes it out on his long suffering partner James.

We thought there would be a limit to how many different ways you can say 'Bayside Radio' but Lee is the master of the voiceover and we've counted at least 100 different variations since we've been working with him.

Lee is based in Derbyshire but thanks to the magic of the internet he delivers us our material minutes after he receives scripts from us. 

Over the last 20 years he's been a radio presenter for numerous radio stations including Kerrang, Peak FM, Signal 1, The Revolution plus countless others. He's produced a vast amount of audio imaging, promos and commercials in his role as a Commercial Producer and Head of Station Sound at various radio station s across the UK and beyond.

He's got some very sexy looking and sounding equipment including an in-booth monitor, a Neumann TLM103 and a Rode NT1A microphones and Focusrite Voicemaster Pro mic pre-amp. His studio also has Audition CS6 and Ozone, Alloy and Nectar software plug-ins. Err...I think you've lost us there Lee!

Lee is married with three beautiful children, loves coffee, trees and is obsessed with the 1980's. 

Also working alongside Lee in imaging and station sound is Simon Prentis and the team from S2Blue in Manchester who have mastercrafted many of our music jingles with the legendary JAM Creative Productions in California. The company is world famous for producing the world's best jingles for the world's best broadcasters including Radio 1 and Radio 2. Only the very best will do for our very discerning Colwyn Bay listeners.

Katy managed Musica Music & Wellbeing in Dorset until 2018, which provides workshops for older adults, particularly those living with dementia. She continues this work in North Wales running Conwy Community Music.

She volunteers alongside Miles at the British Double Reed Society promoting all things oboe and bassoon! With Miles she founded the Blackmore Vale Orchestra in 2017, bringing a new chamber orchestra and high quality music making to North Dorset.

She has also been a guest conductor at a local series of days for wind players at St Roch Church, Pendomer and deputy conductor for Wimborne Community Orchestra in 2014. In Summer 2016 she took over from Miles as Director of Music of the Sturminster Newton Orchestra and said a fond farewell to the orchestra in July 2018 on relocation to North Wales.

She is currently playing with Conwy Town Orchestra and Bangor University Symphony Orchestra. Katy won a silver award at the Community Radio Awards in 2017 in the best newcomer to radio category – she is passionate about making classical music accessible and relevant to everyone and to prove it’s not just about playing symphonies.

She also loves gardening, driving her convertible and going to concerts.

Miles has been playing the Bassoon since 1976 and studied for a time with Vernon Elliot (who composed Ivor the Engine).

Miles was Band Sergeant Major of the Royal Signals Band and toured abroad extensively during his 22 years service. He now plays, teaches, arranges and conducts. He has directed orchestras, music making days and chamber workshops in the Westcountry and was the founding Director of Music for the Blackmore Vale Orchestra until relocation to North Wales in Summer 2018.

His passion is promoting solo contrabassoon repertoire. Miles is the founder of the Jurassic Bassoons Quartet and the ‘Everything Bassoon’ extravaganza, also he is Treasurer and Advertising Manager of the British Double Reed Society and has worked on community radio with Katy Ashman previously.

He enjoys tinkering with old landrovers and walking in the mountains.

Eddie has been a DJ for over 25 years having played in various venues including clubs, private functions and public houses. Eddie is very passionate about 'Community spirit and has always tried to create 'Peace, Love and Harmony' in the community through his music and has been on community radio since 1996 which began in Liverpool on the community radio station called TCR (Toxteth Community Radio).

Eddie has also co-presented on a couple of occasions with his best friend James Klass who was on BBC Radio Merseyside, and it was his best friend James who encouraged him to go into radio presenting.

His promotion for 'Community spirit, unity and love can be clearly detected in his music playlist which includes various genres such as Reggae, RnB, Motown, Soul and Popular pop ballads and motivational tracks.

His show 'Heartical Vibes' is a representation of this love for humanity,  community harmony and love and is aimed at the Heart, the Mind, the Body and the Soul. 

Eddie is a self employed graphic designer, printer and publisher of a local business promotion magazine called 'Bay Waves' and does his best to help promote the local business community.

All that's missing is a cape as he is a super hero to many, and always does what he can to help others as a truly benevolent soul. 'I try to live a life of love so that I can love the life I live'.

He is originally from Barbados, and tries to leave a 'little sunshine' where ever he goes and in all that he does." Come and experience some warmth, feel the love and be inspired... tune into 'Heartical Vibes' with DJ Eddie Ranking 

Her passion for radio came about in 2012 when she became a radio presenter for Tudno FM before joining Quays Radio in Manchester. She then went on to host her own show on Radio Glan Clwyd and has now joined Bayside.

During her third year in University Jasmine went to London to do an internship with The Sun Newspaper where her work was published. However she was always sure she wanted her career to be in North Wales where she was born.

Jasmine won an award for Best Online Journalist in 2016 and has continued her online blog since. Her blog covers local news as well as lifestyle content and has had over 25,000 hits so far.

Another platform Jasmine demonstrates her work is YouTube where she again covers local events and lifestyle.

Her online portfolio highlights her passion for mental health and autism where she writes articles on what it is like to have a sibling with autism. Her work regarding autism has been featured in newsletters for Carers Outreach.

On her show Jasmine will bring you up to date with your local events as well as playing your song requests – she is passionate about the local area and will therefore be happy to chat to you if you have anything planned. 

She is also a Coordiantor and has recently purchased her first home in North Wales and is planning her wedding with husband to be Ryan.

You can visit Jasmine’s blog here and get in touch with her to send your requests.

Quentin is married to Kate and they met when Quentin took part in a theological college exchange at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California.  Quentin holds degrees in both Music and Religious Studies from the University of Wales and is an avid organ enthusiast who loves to play whenever the opportunity arises.

As former Headmaster of Ysgol Pen-y-Bryn in Colwyn Bay and a very well respected member of our community, JR is a very valued member of our team here at Bayside.

His extensive knowledge of Welsh music both old and new is almost encyclopedic and his awareness of what is going on in our community is sure to be passed on!

Having been a music teacher for nearly 25 years, Pete has a passion for communicating the pure joy intrinsic to all genres of music, as well as encouraging musicians of all ages.

His day job as Director of Music at Rydal Penrhos School, sees him teaching, composing, arranging and improvising music, but he has also had two of his musicals performed locally; ‘Hot Wheelz’ and ‘Ebeneezer Scrooge’.

Like many musicians with today’s access to technology, Pete loves to make recordings in his spare time. "I have lots of hobby projects that I put onto YouTube, under different names; ‘LOBES’, ‘Ivor and the Discoverables’, ‘Pedro’s Recordshelf’, ‘The Eclectic Vibes’ ‘EOS’. I’m a big believer in getting the music in your head, out to be listened too".

A dedicated family man, Pete lives in Old Colwyn with his wife Eleri and three daughters and is delighted to be presenting Eclectic Arena.

"There are wonderful listening experiences to be had, irrespective of genre. Whether it’s a classic recording or a performance given in a local school, I’m hoping to present as many of these as I can!"

He grew up in Norfolk and attended college achieving a subsidiary diploma in Sound Engineering.

Joe's main roles at the radio station include writing and editing the Facebook and Twitter pages and helping out on any tech projects the station gets involved in.

He's also an active member of the Colwyn Bay Round Table so is very busy during the month of December as he volunteers most evenings to help bring Christmas joy to Colwyn Bay with there annual Santa float! 

When she's not on the trail of great music for Bayside listeners, Vinca is a writer and editor for art and architecture magazines.

She also works on regeneration projects as part of the North Wales Development Trust, and can be found fawning over vast concrete structures.