[cma-l] Ofcom publishes reasons for the award of four newcommunity radio...

[Darren Jenkinson]

I tend to agree with you Rycharde, just to add to the discussion this
article was on Radio today this morning. 

Community radio station Cheshire FM has won Cheshire County Council's
Start Up Business of the Year category at the local Vale Royal Business
Awards.

Cheshire FM has been on air since March 2007 and has achieved a number
of notable business successes including signing every single business in
a local shopping centre in a 12 month deal. The station places an
emphasis on long-term creative campaigns built around the needs of
customers.

Cheshire FM is also in the process of having a series of 'Real World
Radio Skills' training courses accredited to be delivered in a new
purpose built training facility at the station's Winsford.

David Duffy, Cheshire FM's chief executive commented "It's fantastic
that the immense effort put in by our dedicated management team and 20
plus volunteers has been recognised. Our business plan to secure the
future of the station, deliver our social gain objectives, and provide
Mid Cheshire with great radio is well on its way to being realised."



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rp2 at st-andrews.ac.uk
Sent: 05 March 2008 20:49
To: Stevensuttie at aol.com
Cc: cma-l at commedia.org.uk; alan.coote at thebayradio.com
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Ofcom publishes reasons for the award of four
newcommunity radio...

Quoting Stevensuttie at aol.com:

> Hi Alan and other correspondents to this debate,

This is my Two Penny's worth ..

It's not that long ago when people like myself were banging on the door
of the
then Radio Authority pleading for a Community radio license to be made
available
to small scale local interest broadcasters ....

Well eventually it did happen ... but what has changed ?

We appear to have another tier of ILR stations up and down the UK and
most of
them are dire ...  There are one or two exceptions to this EG Radio
Reverb in
Brighton

Somewhere along the way the plot has been lost !!! Community radio
Stations
should have been forced to obtain Charitable Status rather than exist as
Not
for profits business entities ...  That would have forced out all the
money
grabbers feeding of the goodwill of Community radio.

As someone with special needs I had hoped that community radio would go
someway
to help inspire and fuel the aspirations of the more disadvantaged
members of
our country.

I do not believe that what exists at present achieves this ...

Rycharde Perry



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