[cma-l] 4ZZZ & born to fail

[Two Lochs Radio]

I guess some community stations are more viable than others... Nevis was no surprise, as it was a successful commercial licence holder that converted to a community licence a couple of years back, and I love the though that another station blamed and "oversight due to internal issues that have now been sorted" for its high income. We could do with some of those issues!


Ofcom has found three community radio stations in breach of their licences for bringing in too much money.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb294/issue_294.pdf (pp32-34)

  a.. Nevis Community Radio reported in 2014, 98% of its income was derived from on-air advertising and sponsorship. But after questions by Ofcom, the station re-submitted its Financial Report saying it had under-estimated the amount of ‘in kind’ income from volunteers in its report.
  b.. Peace Full Media in Manchester said its 65% commercial income was as a result of an oversight “caused by internal issues which have now been sorted."
  c.. Bishop FM in Bishop Auckland reported that 60% was commercial due to a misallocation of commercial production revenues between years and revised it to 54% – which was still in breach.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tony Bailey 
  To: Ian Hickling 
  Cc: The Community Media Association Discussion List 
  Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:22 AM
  Subject: Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ & born to fail


  Ian, you are clearly an optimist to be working for community radio - long may you succeed.  Perhaps we should rename this thread "regulated to fail" instead as the issue is more about the environment in which CR has to exist than a defect at birth. 
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