[cma-l] DAB

[fantasy office]

What a great idea...  stick a whole new extra tranche of stations on in 
your own area to compete with. A financially unsupportable notion.

Sorry, it cannot work. There is only a finite amount of money available 
for advertising in any given area and almost nothing in the way of 
grants or donations.

Phil Dawson
FANTASY RADIO 97FM
Devizes, Wiltshire.

On 21/07/2015 15:39, cma-l-request at mailman.commedia.org.uk wrote:
> Send cma-l mailing list submissions to
> 	cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> 	http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> 	cma-l-request at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> 	cma-l-owner at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of cma-l digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
>     1. Re:  DAB Trials (James Cridland)
>     2.  PRS PPL and DAB trials (office)
>     3.  Community radio station film (CMA-L)
>     4.  The Community Media Conference - 12th September 2015 (CMA-L)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:54:08 +0000
> From: James Cridland <james at cridland.net>
> To: The Community Media Association Discussion List
> 	<cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>, cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] DAB Trials
> Message-ID:
> 	<CAGyDWzYrx_0oA9ovWrWxTBEhfFp7KxDctSsR5K1EvyRuNSEfig at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hi,
>
> 6 channels? You could run more if you wanted. But you don't have to.
>
> Nor do *you* have to run them. Indeed, you could sell them. Got a sizeable
> Chinese community? Sell a slot to China Radio International. Or RFI. Or any
> number of broadcasters who want to be in your area. Earn money from this,
> don't let it cost you.
>
> Or rebroadcast channels your audience might find interesting (under
> agreement). Just like BBC World Service is rebroadcast by some US public
> stations on their DAB-equivalent.
>
> Use a channel as a part-time "extra" audio feed for rebroadcasting of
> council meetings or other things. Leave it dormant the rest of the time.
>
> Or, slag the whole thing off before you even start thinking of the
> possibilities. That, too, appears to be a choice.
>
> J
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:41 CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Nick Mallinson <nickm at seahavenfm.com>
>>
>>
>> One thing that occurred to me, and I?m not aware of any comments so far,
>> but may have missed them:
>>
>>
>>
>> There 6 ?channels? on these small scale MUXes.  Will that mean if the
>> tests are successful and we are able to go ahead and have a local community
>> MUX, some areas will be able to have 6 community radio stations in each
>> area?
>>
>>
>>
>> I don?t know about anyone else, but the practicality of 6 stations in our
>> area is going to be?.. well I was going to say ?a challenge? but we have
>> that anyway with just us, so with 6 stations I can see some ?small? issue
>> of viability.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick Mallinson
>>
>> MD Seahaven FM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Reply - cma-l at commedia.org.uk
>>
>> The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community
>> Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media
>> http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
>> Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> Mailing list guidelines:
>> http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:
>> http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l