[cma-l] by the way

[Canalside's The Thread]

Yeh but ... then it just boils down to opinions    :-)     who is right and
who is wrong ?     you surely can't have a situation whereby person (a)
makes a rather forthright point and person (b) happens to agree with it thus
making it basically '''a point'''  but then person (c) comes along and
happens to completely disagree with it but defines it as a 'rant' purely
because they don't agree. That's just plain daft.

 

I don't send out anon tweets to folk telling them that the resident cotton
woolly never say boo to a goose fluffy I'm alright jack person has posted an
a softly softly nicey message .. 

 

If this guy or girl wishes to have me down as Mr Rant then that is fine by
me . it isn't really something that you broadcast. I thought this message
board allowed 'general' comments and not 'personal' ones ?  looks like the
rule book has gone out the window on that front.

 

I'm not upset, anything but to be honest, it's nice to know that it has
rattled a cage or two regardless of whether one agrees to the point or not.

 

Long live democracy, Community Radio, free speech and free rants    LOL
:-)

 

Nick

 

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From: James Cridland [mailto:james at cridland.net] 
Sent: 02 September 2015 20:00
To: Canalside's The Thread; The Community Media Association Discussion List
Subject: Re: [cma-l] by the way

 

Where I became all confused was the news that DAB was cheaper (did they mean
for us or for Government?)(or both?)   which kinda went against what the
discussions 12 months ago on this board where folk were bailing out because
it was too expensive .. this type of stuff tends to confuse a mere insect
like me. 

You originally said that DAB was cheaper for "the country as a whole", and
that's right. It's cheaper for the BBC to broadcast ten stations nationally
on DAB than it is for them to broadcast ten stations on AM/FM nationwide.
The phrase I normally use is "cheaper per station for national
broadcasters", which is true.

 

When I worked at Virgin Radio, the price for national AM was more than the
price for DAB.

 

It's also much more expensive if you're a local broadcaster. You can't
broadcast to a small local area on DAB (yet); the multiplex areas are much
larger and have plenty of complex single-frequency-network nonsense that
bump the price up. And Arqiva's fees.

 

The Government doesn't pay to use spectrum. Even after FM switchover it
can't sell the FM spectrum because folks like you will still be using it. I
don't quite know why they're so keen on FM switchover, other than the BBC
will be in a worse position having considerably less of the available
spectrum than is currently the case.

 

As for the tweet from the no doubt anon person, if he or she wishes to
relate to me as 'the resident ranter' I couldn't give a flying cactus, I'm
afraid to say that it's all the ones who sit at the back and crawl under the
seats who allow a lot of the nonsense to thrive. Standing up and being
counted, making a point in a forthright and clear manner without beating
about the bush does not constitute a rant.

You're right; if, of course, the rant is justified. And concise. ;)

 

//j

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