[cma-l] quick story to tell fellows

[Alan Coote]

This coverage issue needs to be sorted out VERY soon and BEFORE a round
three. After which there won't be any FM spectrum left.    

 

In any case, who's to say that a single community fits into 5km radius. Are
we expected to give our audience tents, a windup FM radio and asked them to
move in sight of the transmitter.    

 

What a shambles.

 

Surely this needs to be sorted out by the CMA . Jaqui?

 

Alan     

 

 

 

From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Joseph Wu /
Spectrum Radio
Sent: 04 November 2010 8:23 PM
To: Office - ccr-fm; 'CMA-L'
Subject: Re: [cma-l] quick story to tell fellows

 

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

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From: Office - ccr-fm <mailto:office at ccr-fm.co.uk>  

To: 'CMA-L' <mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>  

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

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