[cma-l] Sony Awards & Community Radio

[Grace Norman]

Ed definitely has a point. Commercial and community radio are such
different animals... Maybe there could be some kind of CMA awards, if 
there aren't already?

G.

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-----Original Message-----
From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ed Baxter
Sent: 02 June 2008 14:17
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Sony Awards & Community Radio

Dear Jaqui,

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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
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Ed Baxter
programming director
Resonance104.4fm
144 Borough High Street
London SE1 1LB
020 7407 1210