[cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

Tue Apr 5 18:32:08 BST 2011

glad to see we are in agreement lol.

Do we want to consider a CMA / CRA awards project and how we move it
forward?

Martin

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Simon <simon at tamesideradio.com> wrote:

> Not only do the BBC know how to enter for the awards they also know how to
> spend money on them.  Last year the BBC spent £1 million on the awards
> process, from the application fee, employing consultants to undertake the
> application, the awards dinner and overnight expences.
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> *From:* cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:
> cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Richard Berry
> *Sent:* 05 April 2011 13:21
> *Cc:* CMA-L
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> *Subject:* Re: [cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011
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> The problem is the groups and the BBC know how to enter awards. There is a
> knack to putting an entry together and they have it sussed – or they bring
> in people who do. As a sector we tend to lack that experience, despite our
> rather good showing in the N&R awards this year. It's also time consuming, I
> spent days on our (winning) N&R entry.
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>
> It's also a matter of confidence and knowing what we do is good. The BBC
> and Commercial Radio will line up programmes for awards even before they go
> out and they keep a tight hold of what they do put out. Community Radio is
> more liberal about these things and so we may air great stuff and not know
> it. Keeping a folder on the server for presenters to drop their best bits in
> is a start and working with our teams to celebrate what we do.
>
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>
> Let's hope that the nominations this year serve as an inspiration and we'll
> see more in the future. Our own awards (like the Gillards for BBC Local)
> might be fun but do we really want to be that insular?
>
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>
> Rich
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> Richard Berry
>
> Senior Lecturer in Radio
>
> University of Sunderland
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> Tel: (+44) 0191 515 2239
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> Social: @sunderlandradio
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> *From: *Phil Korbel <phil.korb el at googlemail.com<phil.korbel at googlemail.com>
> >
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> *Reply-To: *<phil at radioregen.org>
> *Date: *Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:47:26 +0100
> *To: *Ed Baxter <ed at resonancefm.com>
> *Cc: *CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
> *Subject: *Re: [cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011
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>
> Move over Will Self - Mr Baxter is in the building!  [that's a compliment
> BTW]
>
> as someone who used to be a Sony judge [and an ex Committee member even]
> all I can say is that polish isn't necessary - authenticity and originality
> is - and generally stands out a mile...  Commun ity radio doesn't need a
> team of fluffers to make our radio shine.  More to the point - do we really
> need awards?  We do need to celebrate our achievements better but really -
> how much of that is about "radio"?
>
>
> I'm surprised that we didnt get more nominations - it might be worth asking
> how many community radio judges there are.  That said, in one year when an
> excellent community radio entry was in my category, the ILR and BBC judges
> needed little persuading to get it into the gong list...
>
> bests
>
> Phil
>
> On 4 April 2011 12:43, Ed Baxter <ed at resonancefm.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Joanne,
> I somehow missed last year's debate, evidently.
> I do not think there is very much expertise involved in entering; and
> indeed I have heard some of the Big Guns' entries and not been
> especially impressed. Insider knowledge is another matter and it is
> hard not to view the nominations in the light of the kind of closed
> shop or cosy club that characterises so many industry jamborees. The
> politics of the Awards is always curious to observe, if not exactly
> edifying. The occasional bone is thrown from the high table, for
> certain. But I am not sure what it has to do with radio as I
> understand the meaning of the word. Good grief, how utterly tedious
> and arse-numbingly dull it all is! I nearly wept with boredom as I
> scanned this year's nominations. Only a dentist would find anything to
> celebrate on the awards' website.
>
> I sat through the ceremony last year in a stone-cold sober stupor of
> glassy-eyed indifference, baffled by the in-jokes, depressed by Chris
> Evans's hyper-kinetic banter, and ruminating on the fac t that while I
>
> had stood outside the hotel Evan Davies had portentously cycled past
> on his way home, smirking, evidently too savvy to turn up for the
> "Today" programmes's award. Of course the closed shop, if that is what
> is it, is that of Luvviedom: this is a showbiz event for showbiz
> people. Hoi polloi should understand that and the clue lies in the two
> hundred pounds it costs to get into the ceremony, let alone the amount
> it costs to enter the competition. I tried of course to down two
> hundred quids worth of booze during the ceremony, but it was
> physically impossible given the quality of the wine. And I searched
> the toilets in vain for signs of discarded cocaine, again to no
> effect. Hard times!
> But I did at least have a decent chat with a Mongolian waiter whose
> lack of knowledge in the feted broadcasters was eclipsed only by my
> own lack of engagement. The highlight for me was the award given to
> Bono for his radio-art p ortrait of Elvis Presley, which met with near
>
> universal indifference and even hostility on the part of some of the
> guests. As usual, I found myself in a minority of one in thinking it
> was actually deserved and that millionaire rock stars should try their
> hand at something new. It was surely well-made and heartfelt, which
> alone distinguished it. Hilariously, the broadcasters and their teams
> evidently mostly believed that they were somehow cooler and hipper
> than the terminally uncool and unhip Bono. Nothing could have been
> further from the truth. The same people will be cheering on Ronnie
> Wood this year, sure as night follows day.
> Jarvis Cocker was greeted as if the Queen Mother had risen from the
> dead and one longed for a doppelganger to get on stage to bear his bum
> at the new, my-people-deserve-me Jarvis. David Attenborough was
> applauded as though he could turn water into wine - or even transform
> the Chateau Enver Hoxha with which th e tables were set into something
>
> drinkable. And Jenny Murray did what I insensibly mistook to be a Lady
> Macbeth routine, which set a thunderous tone of moral outrage that
> subsequent winners each tried feebly to emulate. But knowing
> self-congratulation was the overwhelming order of the day and if you
> had not actually heard of, worked with, or gone to school with
> Chris-this or Zane-that, it was because your natural place in the
> world was surely with the waiters and waitresses in the no man's land
> of cultural disenfranchisement.
> My companion, a fine artist used to the steamy solipsism of such
> industrial feeding frenzies, observed that it could just as easily
> have been an aluminium sales convention. Oh, how we laughed and
> crammed breadsticks into our mouths.
> I staggered onto the bendy bus reeling from my failure to beat whoever
> it as who had won the award I was up for. Back home, I hit the bottle
> of Buckfast I'd been keeping for speci al celebrations, downing it in
>
> one savage gulp; furiously, I swept the candles from in front of my
> little shrine to "Peely" off the kitchen table as the tears streamed
> down my now tattered tuxedo; and with a hollow bark of contempt I
> hurled my copy of PB Randolph's "Sex Magick" manual into the bin as a
> worthless distraction from reality. As I tossed and turned in my
> dreams that night, Jarvis, Jenny and the rest rose above me, forming a
> minor celebrity caravan of disdainful radiophonic phantoms, their
> faces looming in hideous close-up, their voices reworked as  if by
> Delia Derbyshire herself into a symphony of sneering superiority.
> "Sour grapes! Sour grapes!" they cackled, each poking at me,
> carressing me with corpselike fingers. And I awoke in struggles and
> cried, " I will sleep no more!"
>
> This year I am mercifully spared all the suffering as none of the five
> programmes Resonance entere d even made the short list.
>
> Yours
> Ed Baxter
>
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> Resonance FM, but are merely and solely those of the author.
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