[cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

[Simon]

You may be less surprised that BBC do so well if you knew that they spend £1
million on the application process, including - although they deny this -
employing consultants to work on their applications.

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[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Joanne Schofield
Sent: 04 April 2011 11:11
To: Ed Baxter
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

Ed, it really is a shame, I whole heartedly agree.
We, as a sector, have so much talent and potential
I feel we can easily compete with the BBC and Commercial stations.
Phil and I from BCfm were up at the nomination event on Wednesday,  having 
put
two applications in ourselves for BCfm  - We had already won the Best South 
West
for under 300,000 and so got a 'free' automatic entry to the Sony's but we 
invested
our £120 for the other application and a few more hundred pounds in the 
hours it took
us to put it all together because we were very proud of the audio, believed 
in it and thought
it deserved a higher profile - local BBC had already featured it.

However I believe putting together these applications requires the 
expertise, time and insider
knowledge and experience that, clearly, the BBC and commercial networks 
have.

As the evening went on, and one BBC station after another (plus minimal 
others) got nominated my heart did begin
to sink for us all,  I really know how much it would mean to our volunteers 
to be recognised in
this way.   To be honest,  it also got very boring and I felt like I had 
gate-crashed someone
else's party!

If I recall, we had this debate on the forum last year about whether people 
were going to put forward
applications for nominations and as a sector we were very divided in our 
opinion (and long may that last)
Should we pay?
Should we have our own category?
Should we stick to our principles and forget these awards and spend time on 
our volunteers and our community?

........or should we ask the BBC for some expertise and 'funding in kind' to

help us put together some potentially awarding winning
entries - what about that for Partnership working? Just a thought.

Joanne Schofield


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ed Baxter
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 11:08 AM
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: [cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

I am genuinely curious to know: has the community radio community in
general given up on the Sonys? or have the Sonys given up on community
radio? Or both?
Ed

-- 
Nominee, Sony Radio Academy Awards 2010 "Station Programmer of the Year"
Runner-up, PRSF New Music Award 2008
As featured in the Independent on Sunday's Happy List
Ed Baxter
programming director
Resonance104.4fm - winner of the Radio Academy’s Nations and Regions
Award for London 2009 and 2010
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