[cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

[Martin Steers]

Why not celebrate our own as our own?

Why not have the CRA - Community Radio Awards? After a while they will have
their own prestige and standing. Like the student radio awards that are now
held in some regard within the industry, its also a great event to celebrate
a growing great sector of radio. Not to mention if people start putting
awards in with that, get good feedback not only does it allow them to grow
as a station / show / presenter but also give them experience in putting
submissions together for things like the sonys..

Would be more than happy to be involved in a project like this, i have some
experience of the SRA awards, putting submissions together etc

Martin

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Joanne Schofield <joanne at bcfm.org.uk>wrote:

> 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
>
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> Runner-up, PRSF New Music Award 2008
> As featured in the Independent on Sunday's Happy List
> Ed Baxter
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