[cma-l] Community Radio Consultation

[gary.jackson]

Many small stations would love to achieve 50% of their costs through advertising let alone 100% 

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Paul Golder <paul at pvg.co.uk> wrote:

>Good news for very small stations where this was a concern, but probably not very exciting for a lot of us.  Have to admit I'm totally underwhelmed.
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>The CMA used to petition for higher funding - is that still actively being pursued?  It's crazy that radio gets so little when so much money is thrown at other projects which impact on far fewer people.
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>I did ask a question on here about funding in other countries - I read a few years ago that French stations get over 30,000 Euros a year from their government but I can't seem to see the source.  My lesson learned over the years is that politicians will never say they don't support something as worthy as community radio - even if they have no intention of putting their money where their mouths are.  Perhaps more pressure could be put on them as to why they don't think community radio is as valuable in the UK as it is in other countries?
>
>Cheers
>Paul
>www.phoenixfm.com
>
>On 22 January 2015 at 23:06, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm sorry - I'm a day behind with all this - I've been out on site getting our 52nd CR transmitter on air.
>Having had a brief glance through the Amendment, I'd summarise it as:
>The Government is planning to bring forward changes that mean that all CR stations will maybe be allowed to raise £15,000 from advertising from their own efforts regardless of present restrictions and the said present restrictions on advertising still remain in force after that amount.Ofcom will allow another 5 years on existing licences as it has done previously.
>Is that all?
>Have we waited for over two years for just this?
>How many people slaving away day and night did it take to produce this?
>Am I the only one here that feels insulted by this utterly valueless handout?
>And then to cap it all we predictably have the Commercials' Union - the RadioCentre - crying foul?
>All those money-grabbing Community weevils stealing our customers!
>Nothing personal - but it make you wonder what colour the sky is on Siobhan Kenny's planet.
>The Government is therefore planning to bring forward the following package of 
>changes to the Community Radio Order 2004
>•
>For all
>community radio stations to be able to raise annual income to a 
>maximum
>level of £15,000 from 
>advertising and
>/or
>sponsorship before 
>appl
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