[cma-l] FW: Silk FM's coverage / CCR Advertising restrictions

[Office - ccr-fm]

Dear All                     (lots of debate around this hornets nest)

 

This is another bee in my bonnet (or is it a hornet?)... as if the correct
rules were introduced, then none of this nonsense would have come into being
anyway.         Figures should be judged on the Stations TSA         AND NOT
their MCA.

 

It's the old goalpost shifting again !         the commercial radio station
sales people go into the car garage outside of the MCA and tell the car
showroom people how many thousands of potential listeners they have
by pure coincidence (er not)    they use TSA figures. Whilst this is going
on, at the same time their Chairman and his sidekick Muttley are in a
meeting with Ofcom and the DCMS whinging and blubbering that their figures
are very low .... those figures being the MCA figures of course which are
much lower.

 

Once again ladies and gentlemen . these clowns might be fooling everyone
else but they certainly ain't fooling me, never have and never will.

 

By the way ...... We have a timeline of sponsors / supporters / donors .....
fortunately for us in a Court of Law we would be able to produce that
timeline 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 year's ago .. the tariffs / donations are the same,
they have not changed, they are for off-air activities ONLY ....... off the
top of my head we have about 19 regulars.

If we now sign everyone up again .UNDER EXACTLY THE SAME AGREEMENTS.. which
we are doing, but decide ourselves .. not Ofcom / not the DCMS .. But us ..
To give away free on-air not paid for advertising then there ain't a Law in
the Country that says we can't.

Any DCMS solicitor who wants to have a go can do ... they haven't a cat in
hells chance as we have the timeline, the proof, and the documents. We also
have the evidence from the supporters themselves as to what they are
actually paying for.

 

Simples

 

Like I have previously said, if we want to all be silly and take the hard
route then so be it. I personally would rather the restrictions be lifted.
If problems are created, we can always re visit the issue. No probs there.

 

Nick

 

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From: Two Lochs Radio [mailto:tlr at gairloch.co.uk] 
Sent: 12 October 2011 12:18
To: Office - ccr-fm
Subject: Re: [cma-l] FW: Silk FM's coverage / CCR Advertising restrictions

 

Just for info, Ofcom's spreadsheet used for identifying and calculating
overlaps shows Silk's current MCA as 116,157, and so does the station's
format, so there would usually still be a restriction on your advertising.

 

As far as I can see, the coverage map Heidi refers to does not show Poynton,
Alderley Edge nor Wilmslow as within Silk's MCA, which accounts for why
Heidi got to a much higher total of 164,000. If you remove those you get
close to the declared figure. I think it may also include only part of
Bramhall.


Alex

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Office - ccr-fm <mailto:office at ccr-fm.co.uk>  

To: 'CMA-L' <mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>  

Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:04 PM

Subject: [cma-l] FW: Silk FM's coverage / CCR Advertising restrictions

 

Dear Everyone

 

I just thought I would ping this over to you all ..... It is an e-mail
exchange between a number of our volunteers / staff  etc etc .....   it
proves a number of things

 

That I actually am not some lone 'nutcase' in a cocoon rambling on about the
same old thing with no one around me in agreement. This e-mail came
out-of-the-blue from Heidi / Brian and others and I had no doing in it.

1)       

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3)      [snip...]

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5)      -

 
http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/ofcom-
awards-four-new-licences-in-the-north-west-200802261998/
<http://www.how-do.co.uk/images/stories/ofcomlogo.jpg> 

6)       

7)       

8)       

So are Ofcom genuinely saying that Silk broadcast to an area with a populus
less than 150,000?

 

Just checked out the MCA for Silk here:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/mcamaps/al213.pdf

 

It includes Macclesfield (50,688), Congleton (25,750), Bollington (7,300),
Alderley Edge (4,409), Bramhall (25,500), Poynton (14,433), Holmes Chapel
(5,669), Wilmslow (30,326) = A populus of 164,075.

 

Can we go back to Ofcom and ask them to reconsider the restrictions in the
light of these figures?

 

Heidi

-- 
Canalside Community Radio 102.8 fm
www.ccr-fm.co.uk 

01625 576689

 

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