[cma-l] Meeting for UK wide advertising for community radio ( and laterpossibly TV...)

[Eddie Stuart]

Nick,

To us, Birmingham *is* London, only often more expensive and harder to get to!! (Far more trains & planes to London from the frozen North than to Birmingham). It's better - a decade ago, BA would return trip me to London for a bought well ahead hundred quid or so. Aberdeen to Birmingham used to be £464. (Not a typo....!!) Overnight sleeper meant Euston then an expensive peaktime train back to Birmingham or getting off at Crewe at 4am.

Even Edinburgh is a (lousy) 4hour drive or multiple trains. We do however have it easier than people in the Hebrides etc.....:-)

You're right though - many London based folk regard Doncaster as The North despite there being a mile or two of England higher up, let alone Scotland! People in Shetland regard Aberdeen as "The South"

So forget Birmingham - why not hold one meeting a year (at least) in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Inverness?

Eddie

KCR is the operating name of Keith Community Radio Ltd - The Friendly Sound
Broadcasting to the whole of Moray & beyond on 102.8FM
and to the World at http://kcr.fm

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On 05/09/2011 18:23, Office - ccr-fm wrote:
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> Jaqui n' all
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> At last ............... !            the issue for me is the ability to tap into the national advertisers. These are the Companies who are all over the Country and if you go to the local branch (as an individual) we get swot away like a fly ................
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> If we could tap into these guys, and there are plenty of them .............. each station may only get a few hundred quid .......... But alas !    a few hundred quid from a lot of Companies is rather good don't you think ?
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> I notice the meeting is in London again ................... Do people down there get a nose bleed the moment they go past Watford Gap J       for reasons of fairness, wouldn't Birmingham be more suitable for everyone ........ just a thought that's all.
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> I'm just checking if I can make it ....... counting up the pennies etc .......   How long does it take to get to London from Macclesfield on a bicycle ?  does anyone know ?   then again, I suppose it depends on how fast you pedal.
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> LOL
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> Regards
>
> Nick
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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 *Jaqui Devereux
> *Sent:* 05 September 2011 16:55
> *To:* cma-l
> *Subject:* [cma-l] UK wide advertising for community radio ( and laterpossibly TV...)
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> Dear all
>
> We have been working with Donald McTernan since the CMA Conference in June to take forward his proposals to create a UK wide ads agency for the community radio sector, and in the longer run possibly to include community/local television as well.
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> We are now at a point where we would like your views on how it could work for you (licensed stations/internet radio/RSLs).  We would not want to supplant in any way stations' current advertiser pools but do believe there is a potential ads market out there for stations that can take on air advertising and for stations' internet presence as well.
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> To that end there will be a meeting in London on 7th October - venue to be confirmed later - for people interested in exploring this with us.
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> If you would like to attend please do get in touch with us on advertising at commedia.org.uk <mailto:advertising at commedia.org.uk>
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> Best wishes
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> Jaqui
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