[cma-l] Sony Awards & Community Radio

[Phil Gibbons - BCfm 93.2fm]

Thanks Jaqui,

Good comments Ed.

I am meeting Alan Zafer the organiser of the Sony's later this week and 
will take any comments from Community stations and groups to him and his 
team, so please don't hold back!








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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Baxter" <ed at resonancefm.com>
To: <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Sony Awards & Community Radio


> Dear Jaqui,
>
> Thanks for writing to Zafer on the behalf on community radio stations.
>
> Very kind and perhaps it will have some positive effect. Unfortunately
> I think their philosophy, if one can call it that, is utterly
> irrelevant and indeed borders on the risible. I can currently think of
> no reason at all to enter the Sony Awards which (ten years after our
> ground-breaking RSL was deemed inappropriate) continue to remain of no
> interest whatsoever to Resonance.
>
> We really don't need them, any of us.  We may as well enter Crufts.
> The Sonys do not add to my understanding or enjoyment of radio. They
> tell me nothing about culture and can surely barely register even
> inside the industry itself. Where the opinions of the judges happen to
> coincide with reality, they do not augment it in any revealing or
> critical way.  I have as much faith in them as I do in letters telling
> me I am the recipient in a lucky draw to win a million pounds or a
> family car. If I want an award, I'll invent one myself.
>
> The question is not what the Sonys can do for us, but what they say
> about radio in the UK: the Sonys indicate it is mostly boring, torpid,
> unimaginative, self-satisfied, crass, dull, dumb, commercially-driven,
> pompous, irrelevant, smug, patronising, repetitive, cowardly and of
> little or no civic, social, artistic or technical merit. Or did I miss
> something?
>
> Oh, and if I wanted to watch a bunch of office workers get pissed, I'd
> save my £136 excluding VAT and simply head over the river to any bar
> in the City on a Friday night.
>
> Yours
>
> Ed
> --
> Ed Baxter
> programming director
> Resonance104.4fm
> 144 Borough High Street
> London SE1 1LB
> 020 7407 1210
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