[cma-l] Community Radio Fund & the CMA

[Martin Steers]

One of my many issues with the fund is that (as far as I am aware) it only
covers 1 year costs not a 2 or 3 year project (or member of staff) which
for anyone that has considered it or done it, its really hard to get
someone in and to sustain their own role in 1 year.

Thats why personally I would shy away from assisting new stations, in
theory new stations are full of volunteer resource, funding etc to get them
going (if not and if they are struggling from the start its going to be a
hard uphill process).. I would say if anything the funding is needed the
most after year 1, when all that initial funding and resource starts to
fade.

I also see why splitting it up would be a great idea, and whilst I agree a)
I am sure I saw a point from Bill that ofcom said that wouldnt be allowed
(however if loads of stations put a joint bid in they would have to at
least consider it).. and b) it then becomes a sustainment fund (getting
smaller and smaller as more stations join) at least in its current form it
as the opportunity for stations to get some development going.

Its that old saying of give a man a fish and he will be fed for the day, or
teach (and give the stuff) for the man to fish and he will eat every day..
 although I personal prefer the terry pratchett version. '*Give a
**man a fire and
he's warm for a day, but set fire** to him and he's warm for the rest of
his life.*'

Martin

On 17 May 2016 at 18:02, Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio <tlr at gairloch.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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> 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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