[cma-l] Community Radio Joint Music Licence

Richard Hilton Richard.Hilton at bitc.org.uk
Fri Jul 15 18:25:09 BST 2016 

To be fair I should take back my initial comments about this not looking like a survey. Alan’s comments that they don’t ask about the staff they have employed who gained experience from community radio is valid.



To save you the time going through their questions, below is a quick summary of the survey:-



Do you strongly agree, agree, neither agree or disagree, disagree etc to the following:-

Question : Community radio stations are distinct from commercial radio

Question : Community radio stations are successful in delivering social objectives (or social gain), including training and outreach work with local communities



Then a set of questions about the impact community radio has had and might have in future on their 1) Ad revenue and 2) audience.


It then asks if they have contacted Ofcom with concerns or complaints about community radio and if yes, please provide details and whether you were satisfied with Ofcom’s response and whether you think it had any effect.

Question :- Do you believe Ofcom regulates community radio effectively?
Question:- Please tell us if your station(s) or group has been impacted in any other way by the activity of local community radio stations - providing brief examples where applicable.
“The list below, which is not exhaustive, highlights some of the principal issues.

-          Commercial activity
-          Nature of editorial content/ speech
-          Distinctiveness of music (ideally supported by data)
-          Compliance with key commitments
-          New licence applications
-          Transmission/ technical issues”



So the survey assumes commercial stations are knowledgeable in whether we are successful in delivering social objectives (or social gain), including training and outreach work with local communities.  It also assumes they are experts in how Ofcom regulates our sector.



It would have been interesting to see them ask where, given all the threats they face (BREXIT, BBC, online advertising, economy etc.) where community radio stands in the hierarchy of threats to their audience and ad revenue.



But they are communicating with their members and hopefully the answers will challenge the apparent bias and ignorance in some of their questions. And hopefully they will share some of their finding with us and no just issue a press release and start lobbying Ofcom.





Richard




From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alan Coote
Sent: 15 July 2016 16:00
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Joint Music Licence

They skilfully (or otherwise) don’t ask;

  1.  Please specify how many people your station has employed with valuable prior experience gained from Community Radio?
RadioCentre appear incredibly naïve with this survey when obviously the biggest challenge to revenue is online advertising, and the biggest fight for listeners is with the BBC and non RadioCentre commercial stations.

Either way it’s definitely not the £1 a spot community station transmitting with less power than a bedside light!

A RadioCentre faux pas of epic proportions?

Kind Regards
Alan


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Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Joint Music Licence

Very interesting.

I don’t think this doesn’t sound like a survey but more a (fishing) expedition for (probably non-scientific) evidence of non-performance in our sector.  And surely they prejudice any replies by saying they have raised concerns about our sector.  I’d be more impressed if they simply asked their members in a neutral manner for their experiences of community radio stations.

I’d also be more impressed if they did conduct a proper survey rather than ask for ‘experiences’ .  Maybe we should ask to be allowed to contact their members to conduct a proper survey! At the very least we should ask them to share the feedback they receive (all names retracted of course!).

But interesting that they acknowledge the ‘continuing growth of the sector’.


Richard

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Sent: 14 July 2016 21:45
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Joint Music Licence


Meanwhile, the commercial radio stations are also engaged in a survey:

Community radio survey






We want to hear directly from [commercial radio station] members about their experiences of community radio stations. The Radiocentre Policy Group has raised concerns about the continuing growth of the sector and the need to ensure that community radio stations, run on a not-for-profit basis, really deliver content such as training, news and discussion which is of benefit to local communities, as required by the terms of their licences.


Dear Members & Supporters
...

In order to inform the CMA’s discussion with PPL and PRSfM the CMA has published an online survey seeking views from members and the wider sector on the proposed Joint Licence from PRSfM and PPL. Additionally, should any CMA members wish to share any particular views we would very much like to hear from you via this form:



http://bit.ly/PPLPRS2016

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