[cma-l] religious broadcasting advice

[Phil Korbel]

Dear all

our line - with WythenshaweFM is simple

in representing the whole community we are a secular station that 
will work to support the groups in our community.

So faith groups can promote their activities and discuss their 
beliefs to 
their hearts' content but they cannot preach.  

OK - of course there's a debate about what counts as preaching 
but it's worked pretty well so far.  

look at p.159 in your copy of the Community Radio Toolkit for a more 
full explanation of our policy

or see
 http://www.communityradiotoolkit.net/mod/resource/view.php?id=42  
(which might require you register if you havent already - a v simple 
process)

bests

Phil


Date sent:      	Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:08:34 +0000
From:           	Fari <dontzzzthroughit at yahoo.com>
To:             	'CMA-L' <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Subject:        	Re: [cma-l] religious broadcasting advice
Send reply to:  	dontzzzthroughit at yahoo.com
	<cma-l.mailman.commedia.org.uk>
	<mailto:cma-l-request at mailman.commedia.org.uk?subject=unsubscribe>
	<mailto:cma-l-request at mailman.commedia.org.uk?subject=subscribe>

> Hi Murray,
> 
> Re: your doubts, quite sure it's fine for a religious group to
> represent themselves as long as they do not preach hate or intolerance
> of other religions or groups.
> 
> Look at how many Radio Ramadan licenses are given out at the same time
> each year to mark the festival.
> 
> In a way you are lucky that more than one group has approached you, as
> by hosting both shows your station will be maintaining the
> impartiality that is required by Ofcom to keeping your license.  Check
> Ofcom's website for more details, every detail you need is there.
> 
> The way to do it is to lay down the house rules at the start, and give
> them a profile of the Target Audience and say that at every turn they
> have to bear them in mind, as well as talk directly to their own.  So
> to avoid anything too sermon-like ask them to bend their content to
> your station and gauge how flexible they are.
> 
> Resonancefm has a light-hearted Jewish show: 'The Something Jewish
> Show', an Iranian language show aimed only at Iranians obviously, a
> Congolese show with some French language content.
> 
> Good luck!
> Fari
> 
> Murray Dawson <murray at shmu.org.uk wrote:
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > We've had a request from the local Parish church who wants to do a
> > weekly radio show based on the work they do (and their faith). 
> > We've also had a request from the local Mosque to do likewise.
> > 
> > My preference would be to have a multi-faith show that they shared,
> > but that didn't go down too well.  My second choice would be a
> > rotational slot shared with other faiths/beliefs. I don't want to be
> > in a situation where we have to have four of five weekly faith based
> > programmes.
> > 
> > What are other stations experiences in this area? It'd be
> > interesting to hear others views.  Also is there any Ofcom ruling
> > here I should be aware of?
> > 
> > All the best,
> > 
> > Murray
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 
> cma-l mailing list - cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> 
> Community Media Association - www.commedia.org.uk
> _______________________________________________
> 
> To manage your mailing list subscription please visit:
> http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l