[cma-l] BBC funding for local TV/Not local radio

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From: "East African " <eavauk at hotmail.co.uk>

Subject: Re: [cma-l] BBC funding for local TV/Not local radio

Hi there

I thought it was only me who was reading that but, a feel relaxed once
I have seen all concern people  have the same feeling, next is what
can we do more that people recognise our huge in put in the sector and
why BBC is cutting of Radio communities instead creating partnership,
I really need to understand the politics behind it to ignore the radio
communities!!!

Bile
EAVA FM
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Suttie <stevensuttie at aol.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:01:48
To: <markianpolden at hotmail.com>
Cc: <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] BBC funding for local TV/Not local radio

Hi there,

 Forgive me, but is this not ironic?

 There are 230 community radio stations licensed with no plausible
fund to support them.

 But here is a massive fund for community telly that doesnt exist yet.

 I'm astonished by how ineptly this sector is organised.

 Am I missing something, or are the DCMS having a laugh? Blimey, I
can't articulate how frustrated and bemused this announcement has made
me feel.

 But its helped me think of a nice strapline for the sector!
'Community Media in the Uk - Running the London Marathon today,
Learning to walk tommorrow.'

 Blimey. I'm off to ask my wife to wake me up now.

 Yours in utter bewilderment
 Steve

 Sent from my iPhone

 On 22 Oct 2010, at 18:07, mark polden <markianpolden at hotmail.com> wrote:

 > Why, why, why not funding for community radio. Unfortunately
seemingly our goose is cooked for this settlement as this government
has gone off half cocked already.
 >
 > Mark Polden
 > Flame CCR
 >
 > > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:33:31 +0100
 > > To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
 > > From: sbuckley at gn.apc.org
 > > Subject: [cma-l] BBC funding for local TV
 > >
 > > Letter from DCMS to the BBC (extract)
 > >
 > > "The BBC will play an active role in supporting
 > > new local television services through a
 > > partnership fund providing capital costs of up to
 > > a total of £25m in 2013/14 for up to 20 local TV
 > > services, subject to any necessary regulatory
 > > approval. The BBC will also commit to ongoing
 > > funding of up to £5m per annum from 2014/15 to
 > > acquire content for use on its own services from
 > > these new services. Should capital costs be
 > > required earlier then this will be facilitated by
 > > access to the existing digital switchover underspend by mutual agreement."
 > >
 > > Source (and letter in full):
 > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/22/bbc-funding-settlement-jeremy-hunt