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

[Dave Rushton]

Alex

Those representing Scotland's local TV working groups pull tables  
together for a couple of hours in a corner of the Willow Cafe in Perth.

Dave


On 7 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Two Lochs Radio wrote:

> 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?
>
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