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In Joe's second year, beginning as [[Head of Marketing]], he completed the [[YSTV Branding 2020]] and implemented it for welcome week 2020. Along with that, he worked on the preparations for the [[Freshers Stream 2020]], along with creating all the marketing assets for it.

Also during the first term, he began work on an Untitled Quarantine Weekly Sequel Show (which later became [[Oranges and Lemons]], alongside [[Zoe Dickinson]]). The plan was for it to operate bi-weekly beginning from Week 5 and run initially until Week 11 of term 1. The first episode, which was a Halloween themed episode, debuted to much success. Trying to keep the show running often became difficult due to the fact that a second coronavirus lockdown was introduced after only one episode had gone out. However, with a lot of perseverance, Joe (together with Zoe and many wonderful producers) succeeded in completing the initial run of the show.

In Week 6 of Term 1, Joe was elected as [[Station Director]], following [[Zoe Dickinson]] stepping down the week before. Whilst this was an exciting prospect at first, he was immediately dropped in the deep end. The day after he was elected was Media Committee and two days later a second national lockdown began. Joe very quickly got to terms with the responsibilities entailed in station directing and began attempting to hold everything together as much as he could. Through talking to YUSU, he secured access to the studio for kit distribution and also YSTV were allowed to continue to film outdoors in pairs. Meaning that at least he hadn't failed in his new job within the first two days.

Towards the end of the first term, Joe also began to partake in online live shows, most importantly, [[YSTV on the Rocks]] - which he co-created with Sophie and producing one final Christmas themed episode of [[Oranges and Lemons]].

The end of second term, Easter Break and the start of third term were all heavily dominated by [[Roses 2021]], officially known as Roses Unlocked. This Roses worked differently from most others, involving digitally assisted fixtures, that took place simultaneously in both York and Lancaster, being linked together by the coverage of YSTV and LA1TV. Joe led the coverage as Roses Lead and headed up the planning and the weekend itself. A gargantuan effort, involving 38 YSTV crew members (only 3 of whom had worked on a Roses before) and ultimately a huge success. Despite some setbacks, with one stream that didn't go live and a key member who dropped out on Saturday morning, Joe worked with the incredible team to hold everything together and ensure that things ran smoothly from that point onwards (which he was mostly successful in doing).

In YSTV's 2021 elections, Joe was successfully re-elected as Station Director, making him the 5th SD to receive a second term. Following re-election, and now a part of [[The Big Five]], Joe set about to bring YSTV back into life as much as possible, with the pandemic at long last gradually thawing. He assisted with the Eurovision after shows, ran the FLOPPYs alongside [[Sophie Bolwell-Davies]], and produced YSTV's coverage of the [[Love York Awards]]. It was at the Love York Awards that YSTV won Student Group of the Year, which is still perhaps Joe's proudest achievement. He also won Highly Commended for Best Sport Journalist at the Colours Ball for his work on Roses Unlocked.

As the year came to an end, Joe could not have been prouder with what YSTV had been able to achieve in a year that saw it face so many difficulties. The resilience of his incredible team became particularly clear as he and [[Max Roach]] co-ordinated NaSTA entries over the summer break.