http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080416-100135 Amesbury, 16th April 2008 – Voice and text broadcasting company Relay Station today announces that the Rugby Football League (RFL) has begun a pilot of its voice broadcasting technology to the phones of 2,500 Rugby League supporters in South Wales to drive ticket sales for the engage Super League's Millennium Magic event (3th/4th May, 2008) in Cardiff.

All six games in Round 13 of the 2008 competition will be played at the Millennium Stadium over one weekend. The event gives supporters a chance to enjoy a feast of Super League action on the field and experience the special family atmosphere that surrounds a major Rugby League event. The voice of Bradford Bulls and Wales star Iestyn Harris is being used for the pilot.

Voice broadcasting is proving one of the most effective media for sports clubs to interact with supporters and to boost ticket sales at key matches. All that clubs need do to benefit from Relay Station's technology is record a message from the manager or player on an MP3, copy the telephone numbers of fans from a database to a spreadsheet, and send both to Relay Station with instructions when to broadcast.

The personalised message is sent to the mobiles or landlines of all fans simultaneously (or spread out over a number of hours to avoid overloading ticket office staff) and they have the option to opt out from future broadcasts in the unlikely event they do not wish to receive personalised messages from their club.

The technology is widely-used by many Premiership and Championship clubs including Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Coventry and Stoke City.

"The RFL hopes that the use of Relay Station's voice broadcasting technology to send personalised messages to fans will prove to be an effective and economical way of engaging with Rugby League supporters," says RFL marketing manager, Phil Williams.

About Relay Station

Relay Station is a leading communications provider to government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with up to 115,000 customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile campaigns to more than 2 million consumers each hour. Sports clubs send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 862 0766, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.

]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080415-092550 Amesbury, 15th April 2008 – Voice and text messaging broadcaster Relay Station today announces one-day briefings for advertising and marketing agencies to help them better develop, implement and evaluate voice and text message broadcasting in brand campaigns.

As digital media spends increase at the cost of the direct mail and the print industries, voice and text message broadcasting to the mobiles and landlines of consumers could become "brand nirvana" in the years ahead for advertising and marketing agencies alike, helping them to instantly reach and interact with consumers in a direct and more personalised manner. Early adopters of voice and text broadcasting will gain market advantage.

The briefings will be given at agencies premises. All that an agency need do for Team Relay Station to turn up is to call 0845 862 0766, agree a date, and tell them how many of your colleagues will be involved.

"Based on recent enquiries from advertising agencies about the use of our voice and text messaging broadcasting services in brand campaigns, we believe the time is now right for Relay Station to help the advertising and marketing industry as a whole to better understand the issues and best-practice techniques involved in using these compelling products to interact with consumers," says Sharon Maslyn, one of Relay Station’s executive directors.

About Relay Station

Relay Station is a voice and messaging broadcaster for government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with hundreds of thousands of customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile marketing campaigns. Public sector organisations use Relay Station for emergency alerts and business continuity solutions to the public, emergency services and employees. Utilities and credit control departments use Relay Station for innovative revenue and debt collection. Sports clubs use Relay Station to send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 862 0766, by email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.

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Amesbury, 20th March 2008 – Voice and text broadcasting company Relay Station today announces that the Osprey's becomes the first Welsh rugby club to adopt its voice broadcasting technology and services to boost ticket sales. Wing hero, Shane Williams will call 3,000 opt-in supporters on 25th March to boost ticket sales for the Magners League fixture against Ulster on 28th March and for the remaining games in the 2007/8 season.

Voice broadcasting is proving one of the most effective media for sports clubs to interact with supporters and to boost ticket sales at key matches. All that clubs need do to benefit from Relay Station's technology is record a message from the manager or player on an MP3, copy the telephone numbers of fans from a database to a spreadsheet, and send both to Relay Station with instructions when to broadcast.

The personalised message is sent to the mobiles or landlines of all fans simultaneously (or spread out over a number of hours to avoid overloading ticket office staff) and they have the option to opt out from future broadcasts in the unlikely event they do not wish to receive personalised messages from their club.

The technology is widely-used by many Premiership and Championship clubs including Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Coventry and Stoke City.

"The Osprey's has a quality team, boasting 14 of the 2008 RBS 6 Nations Grand Slam squad, including players such as James Hook, Shane Williams and Gavin Henson and it's important to all the squad that as many supporters as possible come along to the remaining crucial fixtures and get behind them," says Paul Thorburn, Strategic Development Manager of the Osprey's. "Relay Station's voice broadcasting services enables us to deliver that message to the fans in the fastest and most effective manner."

About Relay Station

Relay Station is a leading communications provider to government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with up to 115,000 customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile campaigns to more than 2 million consumers each hour. Sports clubs send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 862 0766, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.

]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080318-090758 Hello … it's the Vicar calling

Amesbury, 18th March 2008 – Voice and text messaging broadcaster Relay Station today announces that the St Michael le Belfrey Church of York has adopted its flagship voice message broadcasting service to bring its eight communities together at a regeneration weekend during Hope 08 on 4-6 April, 2008.

This is the first time that a church has used voice broadcasting and a personalised message from the Vicar, Roger Simpson, has been sent to the mobiles and landlines of 500 church members encouraging them to register for this important event.

For a number of years, St Michael le Belfery has run a church weekend away at Cliff College, York. This year, to co-incide with Hope 08, the church has decided to hold a weekend away at home and will run numerous seminars and have times of teaching and worship together at St Peter's School, Bootham, York. Saturday afternoon, 5th April, will be dedicated to regeneration projects around the City.

"Regeneration Weekend is an important event in St Michael's calendar and a great chance for church members to get together with people from all across the church for teaching, fellowship and mission to our city," says Roger Simpson, Vicar. "Relay Station's voice broadcasting service has enabled the Church to gain instant outreach to the congregation and to impress upon them the importance of coming along. We're delighted with the results."

Hope 08 is a national initiative with the bold aim of changing Britain. Christians in every village, town and city are invited to join together to bring the gospel of hope into the communities where they live and work.

About Relay Station

Relay Station is a voice and messaging broadcaster for government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with hundreds of thousands of customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile marketing campaigns. Public sector organisations use Relay Station for emergency alerts and business continuity solutions to the public, emergency services and employees. Utilities and credit control departments use Relay Station for innovative revenue and debt collection. Sports clubs use Relay Station to send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 862 0766, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.

]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080310-121620 Amesbury, 10th March 2008 – Voice and text messaging broadcaster Relay Station today announces that its flagship voice message broadcasting service has been selected by the Green Party of Canada to poll voters and establish how they intend to vote in the 17th March 2008 by-elections in British Columbia, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

The voice broadcast begins today and a recorded message will be sent to the mobiles or landlines of 87,000 registered voters. The message asks how they will vote and to reply by touching a specific number on their phone's keypad representing each of the main parties. Relay Station will provide the Green Party with an analysis of voter intentions shortly after the broadcast.

A further voice broadcast is also being made today inviting 30,000 voters to a Green Party rally this evening in Ottawa.

The Green Party of Canada chose Relay Station's voice broadcasting service as a faster, less intrusive and less costly method of establishing voter trends such as telephone calling, knocking on doors, or catching voters in the high street. It also serves their tree-saving environmental principles in eliminating the need to use printed material wherever possible.

Executive director, Jim Campbell, comments: "We live in a mobile world and the Green Party firmly believes that traditional methods of polling have had their day. Relay Station's voice broadcasting service is a compelling solution to help us establish voter intentions in the simplest, shortest and most effective way."

About Relay Station
Relay Station is a voice and messaging broadcaster for government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with hundreds of thousands of customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile marketing campaigns. Public sector organisations use Relay Station for emergency alerts and business continuity solutions to the public, emergency services and employees. Utilities and credit control departments use Relay Station for innovative revenue and debt collection. Sports clubs use Relay Station to send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 862 0766, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.
]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080304-112139 Deals of up to £4,000 off showroom prices of new Ford, Nissan, Renault and Vauxhall models being broadcast to the mobiles and landlines of 5,000 customers

Amesbury, 4th March 2008 – Voice and text messaging broadcaster Relay Station today announces that its flagship voice broadcasting service has been selected by Camden Corporate Fleet Services to push sales of new March registration models. Camden Corporate’s decision to pilot voice message broadcasting to sell new vehicles is driven by poor results from print advertising.


Camden Corporate’s new digital campaign breaks early evening on 5th March 2008. Five thousand customers will receive a personalised voice message and a call to action on their mobiles or landlines. The message invites them to call Camden dealerships involved in the promotion and take advantage of deals of up to £4,000 off showroom prices on new March registration models.

Camden Corporate Fleet Services is located in Leighton Buzzard, Islip, Corby and Livingston. Camden Corporate Fleet Services is one of Britain’s largest fleet service providers. Following the acquisition of Inchcape Automotive in June 2007, it supplies over 100,000 new vehicles and services each year to some of Britain's best known fleet customers including vehicle manufacturers, daily rental companies, contract hire and leasing businesses, major outright purchase fleets and bodyshops.

It is the retail arm of Camden Corporate Fleet Services that has chosen to pilot Relay Station's voice broadcasting service at four of its seven franchised retail dealerships. Those taking part are Renault & Nissan in Dunstable, Ford in Leighton Buzzard, and Vauxhall in Aylesbury. If the trial is successful, it could see the Renault and Nissan businesses in Northampton and the Renault and CarStore sites in Milton Keynes also utilising this innovative new media.

"There is little doubt that digital media will overtake traditional means of advertising for businesses such as Camden Corporate to reach and engage with customers and we believe Relay Station’s personalised voice message broadcasting service could become campaign nirvana for us," says Gavin Cook, Camden Corporate’s retail marketing manager.


About Relay Station
Relay Station is a voice and messaging broadcaster for government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with hundreds of thousands of customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile marketing campaigns. Public sector organisations use Relay Station for emergency alerts and business continuity solutions to the public, emergency services and employees. Utilities and credit control departments use Relay Station for innovative revenue and debt collection. Sports clubs use Relay Station to send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 430 8934, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.
]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080227-084552 Farmers, livestock keepers, and veterinarians can now become proactive in responding to outbreaks of notifiable animal disease such as bluetongue, avian influenza and foot and mouth disease

Amesbury, 27th February 2008 – Voice and text broadcaster Relay Station today announces that Animal Health, the government’s executive agency responsible for ensuring the health and welfare of farmed animals in Great Britain, has selected its broadcasting technology to launch a managed multi-form, early-warning subscription service for farmers, livestock keepers and veterinarians and all others concerned about animal disease.

For the first time, subscribers can receive Animal Health alerts in the form most convenient for them ... voice or SMS messaging to their mobile or landline, email, or by fax at no cost within minutes of new outbreaks.

Relay Station has been working closely with Animal Health since 2005, initially providing emergency broadcasting of voice, SMS, fax and email message alerts each time a notifiable animal disease alert occurred across the UK. The service enabled Animal Health to communicate with the large number of stakeholders involved in responding to outbreaks of animal diseases such as bluetongue, avian influenza and foot and mouth disease.

Emergency services, vets and public officials welcomed Animal Health’s initiative, enabling them to quickly deploy the most effective response and to seal-off infected premises. Importantly for Animal Health, it freed-up critical staff and resources and provided an extensive audit trail whilst providing a more effective way of reaching stakeholders in the shortest timeframe.

Building upon its successful relationship with Relay Station, Animal Health has now decided to introduce a new subscription service aimed at further improving the reach and coverage of the early-warning programme. Central to the service is an innovative data management tool developed by Relay Station which enables Animal Health to send specific alert messages to specific groups in specific areas. The tool can be accessed from any location at anytime.

Subscription to the service is free and all that farmers or vets need do to activate the service and receive alerts by phone, email or fax is to complete a simple form on Animal Health’s website Animal Health Subscription Service (http://animalhealth.system-message.co.uk/AH_subscribe_index.php) or by calling the Agency’s interactive telephone system on 0844 884 9888.

David Shearn, Animal Health’s Contingency Communications Manager, comments: “Animal Health is focussed on providing the best early warning alert system possible and Relay Station’s technology and frontline support singularly allows us to achieve this. We expect thousands of farmers and vets to take advantage of this new flexible service so that all can become proactive in limiting the cost of animal disease.”

About Relay Station
Relay Station is a voice and messaging broadcaster for government, emergency services, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 430 8934, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.
]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080211-124724 Free trial allows government agencies, local authorities, emergency services, enterprises and sports clubs to measure the immediate impact of voice message broadcasting on their operations

Amesbury, 11th February 2008 – Voice and messaging broadcasting specialist Relay Station today announces the second quarter of continuous profitability and the doubling of average quarterly revenues since July 2007. The new owners of Relay Station, backed by General Capital Plc and St Helen’s Private Equity Plc, acquired the voice and messaging technology of the business in October 2006 and have since secured several enterprise contracts with call centres, government agencies and credit and debt collection companies.



Relay Station also announces today a move to new offices in Amesbury, Wiltshire, a new interactive website (www.relaystation.co.uk), a free limited trial offer of its flagship voice message broadcasting product, and its intention to list on London’s AIM market.

The free broadcasting trial will enable government agencies, charities, call centres, advertising agencies, brand managers, enterprises, sports clubs, debt collection agencies and any other type of operation addressing large publics to measure the immediate impact of personalised voice message broadcasting.

All that organisations and businesses need do to take up the free offer is visit Relay Station’s new website (www.relaystation.co.uk), fill in a form, record a message and call to action using the company’s dial-in voice recorder, provide the landline numbers of 1,000 customers, and Relay Station will do the rest. Trial users will receive a report shortly after the broadcast confirming the time each customer received their message. Tips on voice message techniques can be downloaded from the support section of Relay Station’s website.

Relay Station was formed in 2000 and was the subject of a management buyout in 2006. The company’s business operations have since been strengthened and its product suite enhanced resulting in the rapid growth of its customer base. Today, Relay Station’s voice broadcasting, SMS/MMS, fax and email products and services are used by such customers as Alertbox, Animal Health, Aston Villa FC, Citroen, Ford Retail, Gemini Property, Knight BMW Group, London Wasps, Manchester City FC, Ocean Finance, Philips Credit, Saracens Rugby Club, Stratstone, Wigan Warriors, and many more.

“Relay Station is focused on becoming a significant voice and digital messaging broadcaster through new product offerings and acquisitions as this technology becomes an established part of public and private sector communications in the UK and Europe,” says Martin Peck, one of Relay Station's directors. “The growth we have experienced since 2006 has prompted us to consider a major corporate expansion via an AIM listing."

A chartered accountant, Peck is an experienced corporate financier and investor in business, outsourcing services and technology. Previously, he worked in the City with outsourcers Capita and Serco and led the financing and management buyout of Relay Station in 2006. Other business leaders on Relay Station’s board include Jonathan Hill in a non-executive role representing the interests of stakeholder General Capital Plc, and executive director Sharon Maslyn, previously a senior sales manager with Pitney Bowes and Verizon.

About Relay Station
Relay Station is a voice and messaging broadcaster for government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with hundreds of thousands of customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile marketing campaigns. Public sector organisations use Relay Station for emergency alerts and business continuity solutions to the public, emergency services and employees. Utilities and credit control departments use Relay Station for innovative revenue and debt collection. Sports clubs use Relay Station to send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 430 8934, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.
]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080131-081953 Andover, 31 January 2008 – Government and enterprise communications provider Relay Station today announces the appointment of Bruce Roshanravan as its Senior Java Application developer

Roshanravan is a highly-qualified professional software developer and project leader. His specialised expertise is computer programming, software design and development and system analysis, using UML and Patterns or RUP. He joins Relay Station from insurance company Rias plc where he was a Java developer. His career also includes periods with Toose Computers, Harim Constructions, and ADT Fire and Safety.

Roshanravan also has expertise in artificial intelligence and neural networks, and he is a ISO 9000 qualified Internal Quality Auditor and a member of British Computer Society.

About Relay Station

Relay Station is a leading communications provider to government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with up to 115,000 customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile campaigns to more than 2 million consumers each hour. Sports clubs send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 430 8934, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk.
]]> http://www.relaystation.co.uk/news/index.php?entry=entry080114-114757 Andover, 14th January 2008 – Voice broadcasting leader Relay Station announces that Steve Bruce, manager of Wigan Athletic, will call 10,000 season ticket holders this week on their mobiles and landlines and ask them to be sure to attend the home FA Cup clash with Chelsea FC on 26th January 2008.

Wigan Athletic is a regular user of Relay Station’s voice broadcasting technology. In December 2007, manager Steve Bruce used the technology to “call” nearly 3,000 supporters to promote half-season ticket sales. The response was overwhelming.

Relay Station’s voice broadcasting is one of the most effective means for clubs to interact and engage with fans. The technology is a proven generator of revenue streams for many Premiership and Championship clubs including Blackburn Rovers, Manchester City, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Coventry and Stoke City.

All that clubs need do to benefit from Relay Station's technology is record a message from the manager or player on an MP3, copy the telephone numbers of fans from a database to a spreadsheet, and send both to Relay Station with instructions on when to broadcast.

The personalised message is sent to the mobiles or landlines of all fans simultaneously (or spread out over a number of hours to avoid overloading ticket office staff) and they have the option to opt out from future broadcasts in the unlikely event they do not wish to receive personalised messages from their club.

"Wigan’s FA Cup tie with depleted-Chelsea promises to be one of the highlights of our season and the team needs as many fans as possible at the JJB Stadium to spur them on and get a result,” says Antony Clark, Wigan’s sales director. "Relay Station's voice broadcasting technology will enable Steve Bruce to get that personal message out to season ticket holders in a most effective way.”

About Relay Station

Relay Station is a leading communications provider to government, banks, enterprises, SMEs, charities, professional organisations, sports clubs, and many other types of operations with large audiences. Its web-based products enable them to better engage and interact with their publics. Call centres use Relay Station's voice broadcasting products to engage with up to 115,000 customers each hour. Brands use the company's one-way and two-way text marketing solutions to launch mobile campaigns to more than 2 million consumers each hour. Sports clubs send personalised voice messages and greetings from the manager and key players to the mobiles and landlines of supporters. Businesses use its solutions to fax proposals to 10,000 buyers simultaneously and generate revenues in the shortest timeframe. For more information on Relay Station's best-practice communications solutions, contact Hugh Paterson on +44 (0)845 430 8934, email hugh.paterson@relaystation.co.uk, or visit www.relaystation.co.uk. ]]>