[cma-l] Radio De-regulation letter.

[pippa at curlyradio.com]

Afternoon all, 

I think this is good news for Community Radio.

Surely commercial stations (those part of a larger group) will dumb-down as far
as possible to cut costs and provide better shareholder returns.  

If the requirement for local studios and presenters is taken away, how will they
provide local focused content?  And how would they react to a breaking news
situation?

We in CR are generally very strong on local content.   I wouldn't be worried
that we will still be regulated - the most successful stations (from a revenue
standpoint) aren't held back by regulation.

I have always believed that the team at Ofcom want us to be successful.  Our
'community and social objectives' are clearly important and we should push for
regulation which works in our favour.

It looks like the company who conducted the research, and to some extent the
Chief Exec at Ofcom, still look upon us as the poor cousin.  Do not be fooled my
friends!  


Pippa

Philippa Sawyer
@curly_radio
@wycombesound




>     On 15 March 2016 at 11:49 Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>     Sorry - I wasn't aware of that Bob - can you give us more details?
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>     From: bobtyler at btinternet.com
>     Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 11:02:23 +0000
>     To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>     CC: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
>     Subject: [cma-l] Radio De-regulation letter.
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>     I was wondering if anyone has, or is responding to Sharon White’s letter
> to the DCMS? 
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