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

[Office - ccr-fm]

Chaps

 

I may be drifting into the realms of fantasy ??



.. but 






 we are a
TV / Radio communications industry are we not ?!     couldn’t we
watch/listen to it via the ‘net’        surely the boffins in London and at
the CMA could rig something up with a chance of e-mailing some questions in
whilst the gig was on.

 

To be honest, I don’t think I am on fantasy island 


.. I think it is a
damn good suggestion, even though I say so myself :-)

 

Your thoughts please

 

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 Two Lochs Radio
Sent: 07 September 2011 17:27
To: Eddie Stuart; cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Meeting for UK wide advertising for community radio(and
laterpossibly TV...)

 

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 <mailto:eddie at kcr.fm>  

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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