[cma-l] quiery ?

Thu Jun 25 10:08:55 BST 2015

As someone who’s been producing the syndicated 30 minute Let’s Talk Business (LTB) for near 3 years, here’s (very briefly) what I’ve learnt.

1) There’s more to speech radio than you’d think; I started Let’s Talk Business as a single community radio programme but it very quickly (6 weeks) got too expensive for us to fund. LTB was shelved for a year or more before I took on the production in a separate company to improve its production values and make it suitable for commercial as well as community stations. Each episode of LTB takes about one and a half man-weeks of effort to produce. If your station doesn’t have the capacity, time, skills or people to produce a great speech show for your own station you definitely don’t what to start pitching in to produce shows for any others. 

2) The programme must be original; You’ll need ideas and lots of them. But not just any idea, the programme needs a real focus. We have a written internal editorial policy so either when we have an idea, when a PR company pushes their client at us, or someone is looking for exposure, we know if and how we can do the item. This way everyone on the show (Josh, Sean and myself) know what’s best for the show. 

3) There is no money in radio;  If your goal is to do a speech programme for fun, or you have a pet project and you’re not worried about getting paid, then you’ll not be disappointed. Even for a modest show it will cost you money in the short and medium terms, then making money long term in speech radio is difficult. 

4) Refactor Content; I think we are leading the way with this, as all our content over the last 4 months has been broken down into self contained items. We’ve now got 100s of radio, video and podcast clips ready for release. 

If you’re interested register here. http://www.letstalkbusinessonline.com/ltb/radio-station-registration/

5) Radio is not the be-all-and-end-all; We use email extensively to communicate with our audience. We send out over 50 thousand emails a month to our LTB subscribers. Then there’s the website, iTunes, YouTube channel, social media and email. This keeps them informed about the content and helps our contributors see the engagement.

I’m happy to help anyone serious about an idea and if it’s really good we may help you syndicate it.  

Kind Regards

Alan

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Date:  Wednesday, 24 June 2015 18:02
To:  "martin at martinsteers.co.uk", "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk"
Subject:  Re: [cma-l] quiery ?

We could of course run with one every day, but each day is different. On a Friday the News Round up ….. Monday Health and Well Being, Arts Tuesday     National Interest History on Wednesday and so on and so on     if we end up with ten different items then it is run fortnightly ………..I think the News Round up on a Friday needs to stay weekly though. It would sound odd done fortnightly and continuity and consistency would go straight out the window. I think we all suffer enough with lack of continuity before we start adding to the problems ourselves   J

Nick

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Sent: 24 June 2015 17:22
To: Trevor Lockwood; The Community Media Association Discussion List
Subject: Re: [cma-l] quiery ?

I am a big fan of BBC Three Counties and their consumer hour..

Now I have often thought that a national community radio consumer hour (weekly pre-recorded) would be fantastic! Never quite had the time to put a concept together and try and find others that might be interested.. not to mention how its funded lol

On 24 June 2015 at 14:14, Trevor Lockwood <lockwood at btinternet.com> wrote:

Nick

I like that idea - we just need to agree a format (how much time for adverts?). Programme length could offer several options. Quarter, half even full hours - for overnights perhaps - downloadable, listen again.

There was a plan for an arts database - I added a short story, heard nothing more. Lost that. Same with your Roving Report - we need to share.

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On Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 14:06, terry mechan <terrymechan at live.co.uk> wrote:

Nick,

I regularly Broadcast National Topic Roving Report for Community Radio then I offer them to other stations in the format you suggest.

I have put this info/offer out before on this board so you must have missed it.

They are ready to roll without station ID’s and you can get them /or preview them from here

www.terrymechan.com

There is enough on-line for a 14 week series of  Roving Reports on recent subjects of National Interest

Terry Mechan 

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Subject: [cma-l] quiery ? 

Dear All

Are there any of our Stations (there must be surely)  that do programmes

that are generic ?

Ie:- the topic might be elderly people related, or political (national)

current affairs (national)     and the programmes wouldn't sound out of

place on any of our Stations ?

I have always maintained we are missing a trick here. Almost like a couple

of Networked Shows but for US as Community Radio. They could be recorded in

chunks of half an hour so local adverts and breaks can be chucked in.

I reckon it makes sense and it is a great opportunity for someone who would

like to be a touch more National than just Local.

We all know that we get inundated with National MUSIC shows and without

being rude they are T-A-P .... they're good and professional, so it isn't a

criticism ....  I just think more of an hour / 2 hour current affairs with

COMMUNITY INCLUDED would be a belter.

Is anyone up for that ?  there must be some chomping at the bit ..... Pippa

maybe ?

Regards

Nick W

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