[cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

[Steve Buckley]

Dear all

It is disappointing to hear DCMS stopped supporting CMA after over 10 years
of funding across two different governments. It is not an unreasonable
demand that this funding should be reinstated.

Meanwhile the CMA and its members should surely be doing more to press for
an increase in public funding for the sector as a whole. With the DCMS
announcement yesterday that the government plans to establish a £20m
contestable public service content fund, and the BBC's announcement that
they will fund the costs of 150 journalists in private local commercial
newspapers at a cost of around £8m per annum, why not also replace the
current Community Radio Fund with a better mechanism to fund public service
content and local news carried by community radio stations?

Culture Secretary statement on the BBC reforms
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/culture-secretary-statement-on-the-bbc-reforms

BBC and the News Media Association announce ground-breaking plans for new
partnership
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-nma-partnership

Best wishes

Steve
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