[cma-l] Media Guardian: Cut local shows, say radio giants

[matt at freshwatford.com]

My view on this is very simple. Either they make the stations proper 'local' stations or just bite the bullet and go for a proper 'national' station. 

I feel the authorities from day one should have created more national licences and perhaps more regionals instead of all these town wide commercial stations. That way you could have more listener choice (i.e. one oldies, one pop, one soul, one rock format etc) and the regionals would cater for the local needs of each region (much like ITV), then fill the rest in with each region having it's own BBC Local station and towns with their own community licences (where you could have a couple of community stations maybe).

As for talent in media now. It is just too easy. Even when I was younger there was a ladder to climb if you wanted to be a presenter on air and I looked up to presenters even on local stations as they were talented and good, but now you just have a crowd of people with no life experience being put straight on air and I feel it is that which has brought the 'quality' of talent down, alongside real talent being driven away due to heavy formatted stations.

They should in my opinion not have bothered with a second tier commercial radio system as very few stations make money - in time I can see more licences being handed back, which in turn should have been community licences in the first place?

Your thoughts?

Matt (Fresh Watford)

Listen 2 FreestyleRadio.co.uk

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From: CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:00 PM
To: 'CMA-L' <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Media Guardian: Cut local shows, say radio giants 

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From: "Chinese Radio London Huayu" 

Yeah, I think the idea that talent can only be found in London is absurd!
Or maybe the water is purer in London.

Peter
London Huayu

On 10/26/07, Phoenix FM wrote:
>Fwd:
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> Hi Everyone
>
> I think this is just a cop out for local commercial stations the big
> players that own these stations just have to pay 2-3 presenters and just
> network it out to all the stations.
>
> Haven't they forgotten something? Chris Moyles and Chris Evans started
> on local radio that's how they were spotted. There is a wealth of talent
> out there that won't get spotted if this is allowed by Ofcom and Gcap
> and Emap will be laughing all the way to the bank because they won't
> need as many presenters, so more profits to line their pockets.
>
> Anna
> Phoenix Radio
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