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

[Two Lochs Radio]

Well, I would definitely vote for Inverness! Glasgow would be okay too.

Any further south than Glasgow/Edinburgh generally means one or two overnight stays or sleeper trains, which hugely increases the cost.

The only meeting on Community/local TV I have ever been able to get to was because it was conviently located in Inverness!

However, Inverness is not ideally situated for those in southern England or Wales, except for air travel, and I suspect that Glasgow is in time terms actually probably the most central. I can make afternoon meetings in Glasgow (eg 2-4pm) on day travel from here, starting out about 6.30am and home by 10pm. I suspect similar timings would apply for those attending a Glasgow meeting from London or even the south-west, even by train (eg Bristol 0730, Euston 0830, Cardiff 0655).

I wonder if CMA has ever considered subsidizing transport/accommodation for its smaller member stations to attend events, as RadioCentre does for the smallest commercial stations? It could probably get a training or development grant from somewhere to cover the costs of doing that, without needing members to cross-subsidize each other.

Alex

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eddie Stuart 
  To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk 
  Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:46 PM
  Subject: Re: [cma-l] Meeting for UK wide advertising for community radio (and laterpossibly TV...)


  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.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l
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