[cma-l] Cat Among the Pigeons

[Canalside's The Thread]

Correct           people volunteer to do what the Organisation would like
them to do, it isn’t about what they want to do. If you offer your services
then you are over that threshold and the rules then apply to everybody.

 

I receive a tickle here £££ and tickle there £££, but I also volunteer 40
hours a week. I abide by the rules like everyone else. Every Monday I sit
down with myself and tell myself what tasks need to be done and completed, I
discuss them with myself and then I decide with myself where to start and
get cracking.

 

Myself doesn’t please myself, as myself has to do what the Station /
Organisation needs, not what I want. As Station Manager / Gopher I tell
myself what to do. I don’t always agree with myself but the job has to be
done according to the guidelines.

 

And that’s it really guys   :-)    payments or no payments are irrelevant
and have no bearing whatsoever on the price of cheese   :-)

 

Nick

 

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Terry! - the voice of Reason!

1. Whilst each presenter needs to develop his or her own style, it cannot be
to the detriment of the station. I was told years ago in no uncertain terms
that no presenter is bigger than the station.
It doesn't matter if a presenter doesn't get paid - if they volunteer  to do
a job, then it should be as binding an agreement as if money changes hands,
otherwise you lose control.


2. Its great to think stations are prepared to help each other with
equipment, ideas etc., but that must stay in the background. Individual
stations MUST stay individual. Common station imaging would throw us all
into the pit that commercial radio has become - and I like to think we're
better than that.

Nice one Terry.


Phil Dawson
FANTASY RADIO 97FM
DEVIZES 
Wiltshire



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From: Terry Doyle  <mailto:terrydoyle at nnbc.co.uk> <terrydoyle at nnbc.co.uk>
 
Hi
 
I have spent some time reading through some of the threads here and my
temperature is rising slowly as my anger threshold gets closer.  Two points!
 
*1.Presenters With Their Own Agenda?*
 
What are they doing on your station in the first place and more
importantly, why do you allow them to broadcast in the first place?
 
It doesn?t matter if they are volunteers! Just because you don?t pay them
does not give them the right to use your station to broadcast the little
radio station in their heads.
 
Solution! Get them to sign a voluntary agreement that says they follow the
station format/guidelines designed by you - The Station Manager (you have
got a written station/programmes format? don?t you?).
 
If they don?t sign this agreement, they don?t get within fifty yards of a
mic. If they do sign and break the rules then? you can wave goodbye and
replace them with someone who will follow station direction?simple!
 
Presenters on air with their own agenda = weak programme management.
 
*2. Common Station Imaging Across Community Radio*
 
NO NO NO.  We are NOT a network and when we start to think we are? we move
towards our own downfall!
 
Think individuality, creativity and innovation.
 
Terry Doyle
 
NNBC

 



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