[cma-l] FW: A Bad Month for Community Radio

[Martin Steers]

That article isnt particularly  helpfully for community radio, my advice
would be to not engage with it (eg dont comment) as thats what they want..

Its worth remembering there are hundreds of CR stations broadcasting
fantastic content and being at the heart of their community (as well as the
social gain, community development, community training etc) and every now
and again a few stations have problems / mess up / things out of their
control and they get in trouble.. Thats a very small percentage.. I would
hasten a guess (although dont have the maths) that its about the same
percentage of breaches / actual on air stations of commercial radio if you
take year on year.

In regard to your question about TV and Radio, they have different rules and
different standards, people (eg the population) have traditionally held
radio to a higher standard so expect a different level of language then to
TV, thats also why TV has a watershed and radio doesnt.. I do agree that on
certain TV channels and certain times I do question the language used.. But
you also have to consider that year on year (historically) language has been
relaxed and some words allowed and others not allowed... Ofcom conducts
regular audience research about what people consider ok..

Martin

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Office - ccr-fm <office at ccr-fm.co.uk>wrote:

>  Dear All****
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> Have a quick read of this when you have five minutes ….           Talk
> about getting kicked from all sides !****
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> I think it was Phil who pointed out about being positive …… if we weren’t
> ‘’scratting around’’ around for funding, pushing a huge rock up a hill and
> against restrictions we may be able to create a bit of work for a few people
> ……. each station taking on 3 people throughout the Country is employment for
> approx’ 600 – ish …. That’s POSITIVE         in my book, also, more bodies
> around the studios and in the office means tasks completed, less chance of
> live’ programming not going out, more chance of forms being completed, less
> chance of the Station Managers working 40 hour weeks for buttons plus
> another 40 hours voluntary on top to keep the station on-air.****
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> Hang on a mo’’’   I’ll type some more the moment I’ve put back this match
> stick back in my eyelids   J****
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> ‘’that’s better’’****
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> We continue****
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> What we don’t need are Politicians walking around in cloud cuckooland,
> Ofcom engineers turning up pointing out that someone has gone off-air when
> they (the station) already know they have gone off air and I can assure
> everyone that apart from the odd instances the last thing any of our guys
> want to do is to not fulfil our licence and commitments. ****
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> So I will SPELL IT OUT once again …………. Community Radio is an amazing
> thing, a great idea, and a great opportunity = POSITIVE ……. However, the
> nonsense going on around its perimeter is a SHAMBLES and a disgrace.****
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> Common sense WILL prevail, the righteous and the determined will win in the
> end. No doubt the congregation of ‘dipsticks’ will try to claim the glory
> when things do change, the problem is the rest of us know the truth.****
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> We soldier on regardless. ****
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> By the way, we have a pre-record on this afternoon between 1:30 and
> 3:30          it is due to the fact that the person who we employed has been
> let go because of the restrictions ……. So, instead of ‘going off-air’ we
> repeat Sunday evenings programme ………. or listeners are fully aware that it
> is a repeat, I reminded them 5 times this morning myself and they seem OK
> with it. It is a pity as well that we actually have people who have got
> nothing else better to do in their lives than complain about community radio
> ………….                              Most of these problems are in the hands
> of Mr Hunt and his Ministers, trouble is, he’s got a new Train set to play
> with <> TV …….. oh and not forgetting the Olympics.****
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> Soldiering on indeed****
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> Finally with reference to offensive language. I am aware that on our system
> a few have slipped through the net ………. The way our system is set up these
> tracks would only go out early hours sat/sun morn ………. 2pm ………………….. I saw a
> TV programme last week midweek at about 10:30pm …… the language was
> attrocious     f………….s……and the like …………… I simply don’t understand rules
> to be honest.****
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> Are you permitted to swear to high heaven on TV but you daren’t do it on
> radio ???   dunno’ ?                I’m not condoning it or defending it,
> I’m simply asking the question.****
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> Regards****
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> Nick****
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> *From:* Chris de Wet [mailto:chris at ccr-fm.co.uk]
> *Sent:* 16 September 2011 23:41
> *To:* 'Office - ccr-fm'; heidi.j.r at googlemail.com; 'Brian Moores'
> *Subject:* A Bad Month for Community Radio****
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> http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/news/2011/08/a-bad-month-for-community-radio.html
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