[cma-l] quick story to tell fellows

Thu Nov 4 20:22:48 GMT 2010

I think the concept of Community according to OFCOM need to be re-visit. I believe the licence system need to take into consideration of the real need to the community. How local is local before it starts to compete with the commercial sector? And is such competition always a bad things? How about the need of the dispersed community? The current licence system does not service communities which are large in number nationally but not concentrated enough in a single geographical area to apply for a community licence.

Joseph Wu
Spectrum Chinese Programme
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Office - ccr-fm 
  To: 'CMA-L' 
  Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:54 PM
  Subject: [cma-l] quick story to tell fellows

  Dear All

  Any thoughts on the following chaps ?

  Last night we ran our youth to youth project again. Young people from the community get involved in learning radio skills etc etc etc ........ we had a gang of cubs last night. There are 16 of them all told.

  They have been coming along on a Wednesday for the last 6 weeks and they enjoy it. Out of the 16 .... only 4 of them are listening to Canalside with some of the others (possibly through habit and influence from parents) listening to the local commercial station .......... however .. as mentioned last week / pointed out / moaned about yet again / made to look like a professional complainer which I am not ------------ 9 out of the group don't listen because THEY CAN'T !         some of them live in Macclesfield, which, as the crow flies is at most 2 miles outside the pathetic 5km limit <> 25 watts etc etc ''not enough to blow your hat off''   I wouldn't mind, but Bollington is surrounded by 2 miles of fields N/S/E/W     surely this area cannot be included in the figures of the 5km ??

  What is the point providing a fantastic service that is open and accesible to all and yet the basic fundamental idea of radio is that you listen to it ... If you can't access it because the facility or rules are bobbins then the whole shaaa-bang becomes pointless ..... flogging dead horses spring to mind. We need help, not bleedin' restrictions.

  It irritates, it frustrates and it angers all the volunteers and crew at Canalside and we appear to be going around in circles ..... certainly not making any progress.

  These guys get involved ... But don't stay involved     ie:- listening, because they can't pick it up without hissing and crackling and bloody Key 103 coming over the top of us.

  Key 103 by the way when I asked ALL the sixteen cubs       ''Does anyone know who they are?''               they hadn't a clue !

  So ------------ the question is ........ why the hell can we not be allowed to defend ourselves in our own community and why in liaison with Ofcom can we not carefully tweak things so that EVERYONE is permitted to serve their own audience or potential audience.

  Beggars belief it really does

  Sorry to moan again ... but to us ... this is not parliamentary ivory tower debate, this is on the ground level real life .. wake up and smell the coffee..

  Regards

  Nick

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  _______________________________________________

  cma-l mailing list - cma-l at commedia.org.uk

  Community Media Association - www.commedia.org.uk
  _______________________________________________

  To manage your mailing list subscription please visit:
  http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/cma-l/attachments/20101104/d4695502/attachment.html>