[cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

Fri May 13 15:55:32 BST 2016

There can be little argument that every station should receive some money from governement when local TV and now local papers are being heavily subsidised.

For example; Allocating £5,000 to each station would allow it to cover broadcast and much of the fixed running costs. Stations registered with the CMA could then afford to pay a few percent to keep it supporting the sector.

A couple of ‘intended' consequences is that the government would recover some of the funds back in Ofcom fees and tax. The big plus is that the £5,000 would be a benefit-in-kind and therefore permit station’s to increase their own revenue by another £5,000.

A £10,000 net benefit and surely a virtuous circle!       

Kind Regards

Alan

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
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Date:  Friday, 13 May 2016 at 13:16
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Subject:  Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

Afternoon

The CMA did not receive any funding from DCMS for 2015/2016 and looking forward there is currently no long-term funding agreement in place.

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On 13 May 2016 at 13:06, Phil Gibbons <philjgibbons at gmail.com> wrote:
The CMA have been receiving funding annually from DCMS for many years.

It was £20k in 2012, £19K in 2013, £19K in 2014 and £19K in 2015 and this year I believe was £19k again to go into the central core costs of the CMA.
I'm sure Bill or Cathy can confirm this - but It is all published in the accounts.

Phil

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:28 AM, David Sharp <dave.sharp at academyfmfolkestone.com> wrote:
Hi 

I agree that regular funding for the CMA would be a major benefit.

I assume the CMA has to remain impartial of Ofcom / DCMS etc. If they were taking an important part of their funding from the latter, this could call into question any such impartiality.

I'm not questioning their ability to actually be impartial, but how it could open them up to such criticism. However, despite this I would probably vote for such an idea personally.

Dave 'completely unbiased coverage of all my major donor's events' Sharp
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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk <cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com>
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Subject: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

Maybe I've missed something here -  but are we proposing asking the DCMS to give £25-30k to the CMA annually?
I honestly don't think there's a hope in hell of that ever happening - but I'd be delighted to be proved wrong!

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> To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
> From: eddie at kcr.fm
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 00:57:26 +0100
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] feedback - Community Radio Fund & the CMA
> 
> I'd certainly support a motion along these lines.....
> 
> Eddie
> 
> KCR broadcasts across Moray and beyond on 107.7FM
> and to the world on the internet at http://kcr.fm
> 
> KCR is the operating name of Keith Community Radio Ltd.
> Registered in Scotland: No SC 173805
> Registered Office: 59a Land Street, Keith, Banffshire, AB55 5AN
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/05/16 14:02, Canalside's The Thread wrote:
> > Dear All
> >
> > I am just interested in peoples feedback on this one. As you are aware I
> > have been banging on about this for quite a while now and with current
> > too-ings and fro-ings I think the time is right to pitch it again.
> >
> > We all know through our own experiences that one of the biggest problems we
> > all face is the constant plate spinning. Obviously the running and chasing
> > around for funding takes up about 5 wobbly canes, and all the other plates
> > spin when we can get to them. Some as we know do fall off.
> >
> > We have each come to learn how to deal with this and 'manage' ..... whether
> > 'managing' is what we are meant to be doing I don't know ? but we won't
> > trawl over the age old arguments again.
> >
> > Cutting to the chase, I don't believe the CMA (our representative body)
> > should have to operate in this manner ..... it doesn't say a lot for us, nor
> > does it help any of us if the CMA cannot represent us properly because they
> > to are also spinning plates.
> > We at least each have a Broadcasting platform to play around with, they (the
> > CMA) do have canstreem, but that in itself is time consuming and doesn't
> > leave a lot of time for the admin and the representation.
> >
> > I hope I am not speaking out of turn (Bill / Martin et al) but I believe the
> > Community Radio Fund should automatically every year donate £25,000/£30,000
> > to the CMA.
> > I believe we would all benefit from it as the CMA would then be doing what
> > it is meant to be doing as opposed to learning the craft of plate spinning.
> > I suggest they leave that to us.
> >
> > Over the past few months I have been in liaison with David Rutley our Local
> > MP and Ed Vaizey to get feedback from them and whether it could be done.
> >
> > Obviously the questions are :- can we have a mandate from members please
> > to officially put this forward and can I/we get authority from the
> > DCMS/Ofcom that this could be made possible.
> >
> > Thoughts ?
> >
> > This of course prevents us from going round in circles, or dare I say going
> > backwards if people cancel membership because they feel they aren’t being
> > represented. I'm not one for Chinese whispers behind closed doors as you
> > know, and this should an open discussion. Do it now and then either throw it
> > through the window at Conference or officially stamp it.
> > I don't particularly fancy still discussing it in ten years time which tends
> > to the norm in this game of Community Radio.
> >
> > The Right Honourable Sir Nicholas H Dumpty / Chairman and current Plate
> > spinning World record holder
> >
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