[cma-l] Community radio - get your news from the BBC?

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Phil n’ all

 

Pretty fascinating this topic 
.. and exactly the sort of thing that gets my
gander up !                 I would imagine that at that time Radio Regen
including ALL FM / Wythenshawe FM had over 100 staff and volunteers (all
told)  ?!

 

I’m trying to work out that if the licence fee was say £110 quid x 100 or
more that equals = over ELEVEN GRAND    £11,000           and they’re
faffing over a few adverts !

 

Perhaps we wouldn’t need the 50% rule, or the restrictions or no on-air
sponsorship or adverts if all our volunteers paid their licence fee to us
instead of the BBC 





. Anyway, I’m not going to go on about it 

 it
bloody well winds me up

 

I would imagine that this prat who stopped it is on about 6 figures for
his/her salary which equates to me being ripped off for my licence and the
person responsible so far as creating goodwill is about as thick as a
dockers sandwich. ??   ‘’say red backwards’’

 

Complete muppets 


. Unbelievable.

 

Nick                                 

 

By the way, we’ve got our news back, but it is running 7 minutes behind 
.
We get it from the site which is uploaded every 5 minutes past the hour. It
ain’t ideal, but it is better than nowt’    Sky have actually been quite
helpful 


 even though they’re nailing our hats on as well !

 

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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 Phil Korbel
Sent: 23 February 2011 15:29
To: jaqui devereux
Cc: cma-l
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community radio - get your news from the BBC?

 

back in the day, Wythenshawe FM took live news on the hour from what was BBC
GMR.  Worked well and we got a good local-ish news service for nowt, just
had to cue up w 'and now the news from BBC GMR...', possibly a back anno
too.

It was a good will arrangement between the then manager and us.  All going
swimmingly until a bright spark [possibly a national high up] asked if we
took adverts - which we did - and the service was shelved 'pending further
discussions' which are still pending.  The solution we suggested was to have
an advert 'purdah' for say 10 or 15 minutes either side of the bulletin to
dilute the argument that we might be commercially benefiting from the BBC
news content.  So yes - it would be a welcome boon if this were to be
resurrected..

good luck,

bests

Phil

On 23 February 2011 14:54, jaqui devereux <jaqui.devereux at commedia.org.uk>
wrote:

Dear all

We are aware that IRN has hiked its charges for news and are trying to get a
meeting with them to discuss this.  

We are also working with the BBC to try to extend access to their news
services for the community radio sector, so we do urge you to at least
approach your local BBC with a view to exploring the possibility of getting
a free news feed from them, as some stations already have.

Let us know how you get on as we will follow this up at the national
strategic level,

Best wishes

Jaqui

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