[cma-l] Ofcom: 10th March, DCMS: 11th March

[Bill Best]

Yes, "Feel Good Friday" - the Community Media Association supports this!

Best regards

Bill
Operations Manager
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On 8 March 2016 at 15:03, Martyn Haynes <martyn.haynes at wcrfm.com> wrote:

> James makes a good point, albeit in his "unique" way  ;-)  - this mailing
> list has become an endless loop of negativity in recent months and I don't
> think it a) it represents our sector as a whole in a good light and and b)
> doesn't help us achieve our goals.
>
> Sure, we're all facing an uphill battle with issues like funding, etc. and
> many of us believe that we should get more help from those in charge, but
> that's not going to happen to any great extent.  The benefit of being
> members of this association is work together, I worry that an echo chamber
> of whining isn't helping anyone.
>
> Can I suggest one day a week, perhaps a Friday, we use this mailing list
> to show off the good things we've achieved, be it news about
> funding/volunteers/some great audio whatever in order to bring a bit of
> positivity back, we're all here for the same reasons, aren't we?  Let's
> promote and encourage that?
>
> So, Feel Good Friday, who's in?
>
> Martyn
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:31 PM, James Cridland <james at cridland.net>
> wrote:
>
>> >Much of the qualifying criteria were technical and designed so that
>> Ofcom could gain empirical data, therefore it’s a technical trial.<
>>
>> I think you misunderstand. It was a 9 month technical trial. I am now
>> arguing that it is no longer a technical trial, and that Ofcom are just
>> letting these muxes continue on-air while they work out what to do next.
>> Good for listeners. Good for those people who gambled successfully to run
>> those muxes. I can't see the downside.
>>
>> But, this being the community radio list, don't let me stand in the way
>> of more gripes and moans about Ofcom and how desperately unfair life is in
>> general. We haven't heard how much PRS and PPL are going to charge yet! A
>> rich seam!
>>
>> In separate news, I'm really impressed at the quality of radio from the
>> community radio sector here in Australia. I visited Bay FM in Byron Bay a
>> few weeks ago, who had massively impressive news gathering, and 4ZZZ in
>> Brisbane also has tremendous and unexpected programming (a fascinating
>> computer games news show the other day). 4ZZZ appears to directly feed the
>> local ABC with staff, and similarly many of the local ABC staff are also
>> involved with 4ZZZ too. I've yet to hear anyone moan about ACMA, much less
>> whine about the general unfairness of everything. Seems that people just
>> get on and make great radio, with the same lack of resource as the UK
>> manages on, by the way.
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Martyn Haynes
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