[cma-l] National Advertising

[Two Lochs Radio]

Yes, I've long thought it was time for CMA to look at some form of joint
booking agency for national advertisers. In our limited experience they are
quite happy to spread the advertising cake around, but can't cope with the
overheads of dealing with separate bookings for a hundred tiny stations,
when for one order placed with Bauer or GMG they can advertise on dozens of
major stations with just one order to administer.

In Scotland we have already managed to achieve this with the Scottish
Government for their advertising, but it would be good to see some real
effort put into a UK-wide sales agency for the non-profit radio sector.

Alex


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Glover" <clive.glover at lineone.net>
To: "CMA Discussion List List" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:52 AM
Subject: [cma-l] National Advertising


>I wonder if anyone has had any recent contact with any of the radio
>advertising agencies about trying to run any national advertising from
>major retailers who have branches in their local areas?  We did this some
>time ago but were effectively told it was not a viable option either for
>the agencies or for ourselves.
>
> But now with 200 CR stations on air and a potential total CR coverage of
> 18 million (think that was OFCOM's figure!), should we perhaps be trying
> this again all together?
>
> In our local area - as I am sure in yours - we have multiple outlets for
> all the major supermarkets, various car dealers etc who are major national
> advertisers. We would be happy to run current national ads, perhaps with a
> local addition of "your local *** store is at 24 High Street" if it
> produced some income for us. We have already done exactly this for our
> local Sony Centre (they are franchises so the local manager can make
> decisions!) and we think it helps demonstrate our credibility to other
> local potential advertisers.
>
> Apologies to those stations that do not take advertising, but this does
> seem to me to be an idea whose time has come now we have a large number of
> stations on air!
>
> Thoughts please!
>
> Clive Glover
>
> Radio Verulam 92.6 FM
> St Albans
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