[cma-l] Writers contacting community radio stations
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Fri Nov 7 14:27:48 GMT 2014
Adam / Glyn et al
I think Glyn has just about got it right here (apologies I sent my reply
before seeing Glyns reply) I have to say though, the one
about the Royalties tickled me up.
Everyone knows my feelings on Royalties. It’s the biggest money making
racket going.
I buy Elton Johns new album for £11:00 quid
we put it on our Station and
play it, 400 folk enjoy it and they go and buy Eltons new cd as well
so he
has clocked up 401 x £11 quid. He then signs up PRS/PPL and they send me a
bill ????? who thought that one up ? I should be sending them the
Bill.
Pirating material is wrong, I defo’ agree with that, I most certainly do not
agree with PRS/PPL
. If you don’t want folk playing your music then don’t
sell it.
Royalties
complete nonsense !
The best bit is when PRS/PPL start wanting to know how much money you have
in your Bank Account and your Income
.. what’s that got to do with anything
?? I normally write ‘’mind your own business’’ LOL I think it gets
a laugh at their end !
Noddy who lives literally just down the road will be getting ready for
Chrimbo again
. ‘’IT’S CHRISSS---------MAS’’ his PiggyBank will start
filling up again
.
I think the main point that folk forget about in this malarkey is that as we
play this music for Artists / Musicians / Writers etc we are constantly
introducing their material to new audiences (young people) so the sales
are constant. If folk don’t like the music they don’t buy it. There are some
artists on our Station who we don’t play, but as I am aware they still get
royalties from our payment ?? the guy who thought PRS/PPL/Royalties up
was a genius, either that or the ones on the receiving end were a bunch of
Numpties :-)
With reference to this sort of material my royalty policy works like this
‘’who’s doing who the favour?’’ if you want us to read the poem, or
the book, or do the play then fine, if you want a tickle for it £££ then
go somewhere else. We are here to help, we don’t really want our Hat nailing
on whilst we are trying to help. I think it is a win win for everyone, but
not if folk start charging
we must all remain focused on the Voluntary /
Community ethos that is key.
Surely most of these people are grateful to have their work show-cased ? or
have I missed something here ? are there rules for even those people who
submit the work to you .. surely they have to register somewhere to receive
royalties ?
That sadly equates then to some more Parasites and Leeches knocking on our
door does it ? :-) that’s what the P and the L stands for in PRS/PPL
:-)
Regards
Nick
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Broadcast Consultants
Sent: 07 November 2014 13:21
To: The Community Media Association Discussion List
Cc: cma-l; Adam Carpenter
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Writers contacting community radio stations
Hi Adam,
Sounds interesting - I am sure lots of stations would be interested by the
prospect of free or low cost and high quality material - especially to
spice-up their automated periods. From my experience there are several
things it would be important to get right - here's a random and most
probably incomplete list in no particular order
1. Royalties - if it's original work will they be waived or will
stations need to buy another licence?
2. Advertising - if it includes some kind of promotion to encourage
people to buy books or whatever it would need to comply with Ofcom and ASA
guidelines. I'm thinking here particularly the requirement for a clear
distinction between advertising and content
3. Broadcasting code - all the stuff about protecting minors,
defamation, swearing etc.
4. Length - in my opinion (others will disagree), talk and drama works
best in small bites - especially on music radio (2-5 minutes I'm thinking
for the latter). Maybe talk format stations can take longer segments, but
they still need to fit between advert breaks and news. 20 minutes might be
maximum.
5. Audio quality - if you have not done stuff for broadcast before, get
advice and read lots of forums and websites. If you are starting from a
blank canvas I'd say a Zoom H4 portable audio recorder is the cheapest
entrance into broadcast-quality audio recording. BUT it is essential it is
used in the right acoustic environment - ideally a studio, if not a room
with lots of soft furnishings and the minimum of hard surfaces that reflect
the audio and make it sound horrible on-air! Record minimum 192kbps mp3,
ideally .wav format.
6. Submitting recordings - don't clutter their inboxes. Host the files
on a website (where they could also be available for stations searching for
such material) and send them links.
7. I'm sure there are many other things to think about!
Regards,
Glyn
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Associated Broadcast <http://www.a-bc.co.uk/> Consultants
On 7 November 2014 12:02, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
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Hi there,
I am a presenter with CHBN Radio in Truro and I am writing an article
for a magazine called Writers' Forum
(http://writers-forum.com/contact.html) about how best for writers to
go about making contact with their local community radio station to
get their work out there - whether it be short stories, novels that
they are happy to be serialised, radio plays or non-fiction works.
The idea being that it is not just a way to promote their work but it
is also to the benefit of the stations involved as it is a good way
for them to have speech content to broadcast (in the case of CHBN, our
live content needs to be 30% speech to meet our community radio quota)
Obviously I have ideas of my own but I was hoping to gather thoughts
from members of other community radio stations and I wondered if CMA
members would like to put forward any suggestions or thoughts that I
could use - not just actual ideas but ways that potential contributors
could make it easier when approaching stations, such as the best way
to submit MP3 recordings.
My article will include links to find community radio stations so that
readers can find their local station easily and hopefully be inspired
to produce material that listeners will enjoy hearing.
Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Kind regards,
Adam Carpenter
e: adam.carpenter123 at btinternet.com
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