[cma-l] Community Radio: Localised Overnight Sustaining Service

[Alan Coote]

Local stations do automate / voice track overnight and the professional
presenter's rate can be very low, hardly above the national minimum wage so
there's no money to be made here in any case.

Your point about networking being counter the idea of community radio isn't
always true as there are many metropolitan areas which would benefit. In
fact limiting the definition of any community to the strength of a
transmitter is total arbitrary.

Importantly, community radio is community radio because of the social
benefits and not whether it could make money. The single most important
factor to the success of any community radio is financial. Ideas like Jon
Richardson's should be encouraged even though it remains to be seen if it
viable.  
     
Alan Coote
The Bay (Poole)


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From: "matt at freshwatford.com" <matt at freshwatford.com>

Hi All

We are not sure why local stations cant automate or give people an
opportunity to voice track overnight programmes.

If we're going to see a start of a 'networked' community show then it
defeats the object of community radio altogether.

We don't feel any commercial system - which this could be...should be
used as a back door source of revenue making through communtiy radio.
This is exactly what commercial radio is there for - making money.

Regards

Fresh FM - Watford