[cma-l] Radio Festival blog

[Karl Hartland]

Quote:

"Finally, a couple of less so positive points; If you're going to have a 
debate about 'localness in radio', please get people who actually 
understand something about local radio on the panel! The GMG debate that 
kicked the festival off was really quite terrible in the choice of 
speakers and in the arguments that were presented. And without sounding 
unkind, the Community Radio sector, valid as it is, seemed to be an 
unnecessary distraction in the programme of sessions. I suggest that 
there should be a separate day for community radio, as sitting though a 
detailed analysis of why 'Celtic Music Radio' is such a success in 
certain parts of Glasgow, made me want to stab myself repeatedly with my 
cheap, disposable, 'delegate bag' pen."

http://nikgoodman.blogspot.com/2008/07/radio-festival-glasgow-2008-verdict.html

6.30pm - This House....Likes it Local
Chair: Sally Magnusson.

For the motion: Pat Loughrey, Director of BBC Nations & Regions.
Pat Kane, Media consultant and one half of Hue and Cry.
Stewart Lochhead, Chair, Leith FM.

Against the motion: Anvar Khan, author, broadcaster and journalist.
Robert Beveridge, lecturer, Napier University Edinburgh.
Peter Curran, writer and broadcaster.

<scratches head>

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