[cma-l] FW: Minister for Policing at Reprezent tomorrow

Wed Aug 5 14:06:51 BST 2009

Dear all.

Reprezent Youth Radio in South East London is hosting a youth panel discussion at 2pm tomorrow (Thurs), with MP David Hanson, Minister for Policing. This is in response to the governments 'Youth Crime Action Plan' first year review. Last year, the government committed £100m to the plan in response to rising levels of violent youth crime - have things changed for the better one year on?

We would like to feed in voxpops from community radio around the country (late notice I know!), asking young people:

'Has there been a change for the better in your area in the last year?'

Ideally, the young person would say their name and where they're from, and a brief answer.

It would be great if any stations could get this together before 1pm Thurs, and send it as an MP3. 

Our aim is to further establish community radio as a useful gateway/ forum for decision makers and young people. 

The show will be streamed live on Thursday at 2pm on www.reprezent.org.uk <http://www.reprezent.org.uk/>  , available on demand at 6pm, and featured on ITN London Tonight at 6.30pm and 10.30pm

all the best, Shane

www.eclectic-productions.co.uk <http://www.eclectic-productions.co.uk/>  

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk on behalf of Karl Hartland
Sent: Tue 04/08/2009 14:46
To: CMA-L
Subject: Re: [cma-l] CMA Council meeting

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: 

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From: Richard Laurence <rjhlaurence at mac.com> <mailto: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> <mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>  wrote:

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	From: Phil Shepherd <phil at somersetfilm.com> <mailto: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
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