[cma-l] 4ZZZ & born to fail - whatever that means.

[Ian Hickling]

I know it's "The Rules", but what a state of affairs when people can be penalised for doing too well.
I do our VAT and Tax - it surely can't be that hard to compose official returns to comply with the parameters?

Ian Hickling
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From: tlr at gairloch.co.uk
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:11:50 +0000
Subject: Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ & born to fail








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)
 

  
  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.
  
  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."
  
  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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