[cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

[Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio]

Yes, but unless I've misunderstood you, surely at best that's just dividing
up the CR fund so each station gets £1k-2k, not the £30k or so (at 2003
prices) that was originally recommended to Government when the whole scheme
was set up!

It would also stop Ofcom from instead focusing the fund on assisting new
stations starting up.

Alex

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Phil Edmonds
Sent: 17 May 2016 17:22
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

Thinking aloud here....

Every Community Radio station has the Ofcom Licence fees (which unless it's
changed since I last looked a couple of years back, that if you were an
analogue Commercial Radio station would be zero rated if you had the
turnover of an average CR station) plus at least the 'minimum' 
PRS/MCPS and PPL fee.

So there's 500k in the Community Radio fund....

Maybe someone should put in an application to the Community Radio Fund to
mass pay "everyone's" Ofcom and minimum music royalties basic costs (hey it
might even mean that PRS can sort out the admin correctly on such a 'block
booking'!)

Back of the fag packet calculations gets me broadly to the 500k mark with
this.

I could be even more radical and suggest a mass submission of the same
"spilt up the fund to all stations equally" set of applications...


Now my initial thought on this front was somewhat "tongue in cheek", but 
maybe there is a little nugget of an idea in there?

I'll duck and cover now....

Phil.
(Personal views, not necessarily those of any organisation I'm involved 
with.)



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