[cma-l] CMA Council meeting

[Karl Hartland]

As well as all the other excellent directions posited thus far there are 
3 other areas that are KEY & NOW for CR

   1. cracking the selling of commercial space on our non-profit
      stations, in general and with a national and accessible frontage
      to that activity, freeing us more from grant funding and working
      towards unrestricted cash income for sustainability
   2. creating a respected 3rd party audience figure/reach methodology
      that has nothing to do with the statistical nonsense that is RAJAR
   3. finding some way to provide news which isn't IRN (for those that
      don't think it's for us like we do) and one which also doesn't
      contribute to the destruction of newspapers and journalism in general

They are my areas of development both here in Cambridge, and beyond 
where I can, and passionately believe that they need attention and *now 
*because I know how long things take, in this game

K

CMA-L wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> From: Richard Laurence <rjhlaurence at mac.com>
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Just two thoughts:
>
> 1. Local TV on Freeview: can one or more local services be
> accommodated on regional freeview multiplexes in place of the numerous
> national shopping channels? Or if a dedicated "local" multiplex is
> created in each area, will there be legislation to ensure the channels
> on it remain local? Otherwise I can see "local" multiplex owners
> selling the airtime to shopping channels.
>
> 2. FM: moving national radio off FM is madness as it will make tens of
> millions of FM radios unable to receive national channels. The upshot
> of that would be people who are forced to buy new digital radios would
> have no incentive to go to FM to look for local stations which would
> effectively be on an obsolete system. Either all stations of every
> size are given DAB frequencies or they all stay on FM (my preferred
> option). It ain't broke so don't fix it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard Laurence
>
> On 4 Aug 2009, at 12:32, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>
>> From: Phil Shepherd <phil at somersetfilm.com>
>>
>> Dear Members and Friends
>>
>> The CMA Council meets tomorrow in Glasgow, hosted on this occasion by Awaz FM.
>>
>> Our agenda includes:
>>
>> - feedback and next steps post Digital Britain
>> - strategies to support for the sector campaign for increasing the
>> size of the Community Radio Fund (which includes the petition to
>> Gordon Brown)
>> - prospects for Community & Local Television in the wake of lacklustre
>> support from Lord Carter's report
>> - update on the emerging Make Media Project
>> - development of streaming and other member services
>> - UK sector relations with European colleagues and opportunities therein
>> - schedule for regional CMA meetings over the next few months
>>
>> Thoughts and contributions welcomed from all today or first thing
>> tomorrow via this list.
>>
>> I will provide feedback fcrom the meeting by the end of next week.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Phil Shepherd
>> Chair of Council
>> --
>> Community Media Association
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>>     
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